British European Airways

UK public-sector airline company (1946-1974)
Organization airline Q919252
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British European Airways

Summary

British European Airways is an airline[1]. It ranks in the top 8% of airline entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (341 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • British European Airways is in the country of United Kingdom[3].
  • British European Airways's image is recorded as BEA Trident Haafke.jpg[4].
  • British European Airways's instance of is recorded as airline[5].
  • British European Airways's coat of arms image is recorded as British European Airways CoA.svg[6].
  • British European Airways's airline hub is recorded as RAF Northolt[7].
  • British European Airways's airline hub is recorded as London Heathrow Airport[8].
  • British European Airways's item operated is recorded as Douglas DC-3[9].
  • British European Airways's item operated is recorded as Junkers Ju 52/3m[10].
  • British European Airways's item operated is recorded as Vickers Viking[11].
  • British European Airways's item operated is recorded as Airspeed AS.57 Ambassador[12].
  • British European Airways's item operated is recorded as Bristol 170[13].
  • British European Airways's item operated is recorded as de Havilland DH.114 Heron[14].
  • British European Airways's item operated is recorded as Short SC.7 Skyvan[15].
  • British European Airways's item operated is recorded as Vickers Vanguard[16].
  • British European Airways's item operated is recorded as Avro Lancastrian[17].
  • British European Airways's item operated is recorded as Hawker Siddeley Trident[18].
  • British European Airways's followed by is recorded as British Airways[19].
  • British European Airways's headquarters location is recorded as Ruislip[20].
  • British European Airways's ISNI is recorded as 0000000122886947[21].
  • British European Airways's VIAF cluster ID is recorded as 134387442[22].
  • British European Airways's GND ID is recorded as 215992-2[23].
  • British European Airways's IATA airline designator is recorded as BE[24].
  • British European Airways's ICAO airline designator is recorded as BEA[25].
  • British European Airways's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as n50044074[26].
  • British European Airways's Bibliothèque nationale de France ID is recorded as 11733210q[27].

Body

Founding

+1946-01-01T00:00:00Z marks the founding of British European Airways[28].

Identity

British European Airways's official name is recorded as {'lang': 'en-gb', 'text': 'it Corporation'}[29]. Its followed by is recorded as British Airways[19].

Operations

British European Airways's headquarters location is recorded as Ruislip[20].

Industry

British European Airways's industry is recorded as air transport[30].

Dissolution

British European Airways was dissolved in +1974-04-01T00:00:00Z[31].

Why It Matters

British European Airways ranks in the top 8% of airline entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (341 views/month).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 19 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[32] It is known by 20 alternative names across languages and contexts.[33]

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
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  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . Virtual International Authority File. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . Virtual International Authority File. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . BnF authorities. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  26. [30] . 20th Century Press Archives. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  27. [28] . wikidata.org.
  28. [31] . The Air Corporations (Dissolution) Order 1973. wikidata.org.
  29. [29] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [32] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [33] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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