Redcoat Air Cargo

It used the aircraft to operate cargo flights from the United Kingdom to West Africa.

The crash of the Britannia in 1980 led to the purchase of a Canadair CL-44 from British Cargo Airlines.

Delay in acquiring the aircraft from the official receiver and subsequent engine problems led to cash flow issues and in 1982 the company entered voluntary liquidation.

[2] In 1980 one of the company's Britannia aircraft was used in a BBC television drama series Buccaneer about a cargo airline.

[5] On 16 February 1980 a Bristol Britannia C Mk.1, registered G-BRAC, crashed after departure from Boston-Logan due to ice and snow on the aircraft; seven of the eight occupants died, including the spouse of a serving airman at RAF Belize.