British Overseas Airways Corporation
British Overseas Airways Corporation BOAC was the British state-owned airline created in 1940 by the merger of Imperial Airways and British Airways Ltd. 712 from Heathrow Airport London to Zurich with onward routing to Sydney Australia. British Overseas Airways Corporation A History Aviation Book Review Airport Spotting Cette compagnie est née de la fusion dImperial Airways et de British Airways Ltd en. British overseas airways corporation . The result was the British Overseas Airways Corporation BOAC formally established in 1939. In 1946 British European Airways BEA formerly a division of BOAC was split off to become a government corporation in its own right responsible primarily for British. 1974 merged with British European Airways to form British Airways. It was formed in 1974 when the UKs two government owned airlines the British Oversea Airways Corporation and British European Airways were joined together. The two became British Airways. British Overseas Airways Corp