page_title: Hawker Siddeley Trident
section_title: Operators
hierarchical_section_title: Hawker Siddeley Trident / Operators
caption_attribution_description: English: G-AVYB (cn 2136) at Salzburg - W.A. Mozart (Maxglan) (SZG / LOWS) Austria
context_page_description: The Hawker Siddeley HS-121 Trident is a now-retired British short- range airliner. It was the first T-tail rear-engined trijet airliner to be designed. It was also the first airliner to make a blind landing in revenue service in 1965.
  The Trident emerged in response to a call by the state-owned British European Airways Corporation for a jet airliner for its premier West European routes. BEA had been induced by the government to issue this call despite its unwillingness to buy a large jet fleet. Adherence to BEA's changing specification was widely seen as limiting the Trident's appeal and delaying its service entry. BEA's requirements fluctuated greatly in the 1950s and in the 1960s and 1970s ended up differing considerably from what the Trident could offer.
  During its gestation, the Trident was also involved in a government drive to rationalise the British aircraft industry.‹See TfM› The resulting corporate moves and government interventions contributed to delays causing it to enter service two months after its major competitor, the Boeing 727, losing further potential sales as a result. By the end of the programme in 1978, only 117 Tridents had been produced.
caption: Channel Airways Trident 1E at Salzburg Airport, Austria, 1971
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