Summary: West German officials accept delivery of a British-built Hawker Siddeley 748 aircraft, specially equipped with sophisticated navigational aids, at the end of 1969.
Description: At an English airfield, representatives of the Bundesanstalt für Flugsicherung (Federal Institute for Flight Safety) including the director Herbert Reuschel and his colleague Herr Nolt take delivery of the specially-equipped Hawker Siddeley 748 airliner (in Federal German livery). The craft has been installed with advanced systems for checking navigational equipment such as instrument landing systems; it also has an infra-red tracking system. The name of the new owners is painted on the fuselage.
