Laker spent more than £200,000 of his own money on the newly-ordered aircraft's deposits, with a consortium of City banks led by Clydesdale Bank funding the remainder.Fly me, I'm Freddie!, Eglin, R. and Ritchie, B., Weidenfeld and Nicolson, London, 1980, p. 106 He placed a follow-up order for a fourth aircraft to be delivered in 1968 and acquired a former-British Eagle aircraft from Bahamas Airways in 1971.Laker: Another One-Eleven, Flight International, 20 July 1967, p. 91Fifth Laker One-Eleven, Flight International, 25 March 1971, p. 406"The Home Of Eagle" ... — G-ATPK BAC1-11 Type 301AG c/n 034 These airline's short- and medium-haul charter operations to holiday resorts in the Mediterranean and the Canary Islands were primarily operated with these aircraft.
