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ID #1711498 / 109 Views -May-1990
N211JL In service with JAL Cargo for 26 years, N211JL changed its livery several times and in 1997 also its registration to JA811J (more of N211JL)
ID #1711495 / 109 Views -June-1983
9M-MHI Originally ordered by British Airways but not delivered, bought by MAS in 1982 and converted into a full-freighter for MASkargo in 1995 (more of 9M-MHI)
ID #1710831 / 218 Views 15-March-1981
N8084U Fourteen years after delivery to United in 1968 as a Super DC-8 Series -61, N8084U was converted to a DC-8-71 with CFM56 engines and in 1991 again into a full freighter, then first in service with VASP as PP-SOO, from 1993 with Air Canada Cargo as C-FQPL and most recently from 1994 with Emery Worldwide until N8084U was withdrawn from use in 2001 (more of N8084U)
ID #1710828 / 171 Views 17-March-1981
N729RW Just one year after the delivery of this B727 to Hughes Airwest in 1979, the airline merged with North Central and Southern, which had already been merged to form the Republic in July 1979 (more of N729RW)
ID #1710827 / 260 Views 16-March-1981
N64339 TWA stripped white paint from this airplane during a brief test to see if it made economic sense to shed the weight of the paint while mainting a silver finish. The results were negative. On June 14, 1985, N64339 was hijacked with 145 passengers and 8 crew members on a scheduled flight from Athens to Rome and diverted to Beirut. For 17 days the kidnappers wandered between Beirut, Damascus and Algiers with their hostages, who were gradually released. On June 30, 1985 the remaining 36 passengers and 3 crew members were released in Damascus (more of N64339)
ID #1710081 / 238 Views -September-1977
D-ABYC The Bayern was delivered to Lufthansa in May 1970 as the second of a total of three B747-100s. After only nine years, D-ABYC was sold to Aer Lingus, registered as EI-BED and remained there for another fifteen years until she was withdrawn from use in 1994 and finally scrapped in 1996 (more of D-ABYC)
ID #1710080 / 159 Views -August-1988
D-ABHL The Worms, seen here with promotion sticker for the UEFA 1988 European Football Championship in Germany was sold to Air Atlanta Icelandic in 1994. After a one-year lease to Qatar AW, D-ABHL passed to Mandala Airlines as PK-RIL and was written off after a very hard landing and damage beyond economical repair on November, 2nd in 2007 in Malang (more of D-ABHL)
ID #1709252 / 1174 Views -February-1988
D-ADFO Apparently after a major overhaul, christened City of Fuerth, D-ADFO appears like new, fourteen years after her first flight. Being converted to a full freighter in 1996, she flew as N605GC until Gemini Air Cargo ceased operations in August 2008 (more of D-ADFO)
ID #1709251 / 284 Views -July-1986
D-ABDI Europa Jet L�beck found a new home in 1987 with Pan Am as Clipper Fleetwing as N878UM, from 1992 with Albatross AL as TC-ALB, then Sultan Air as TC-JUH and finally with Air Alfa as TC-ALM. After a stormy night in East Midlands at the end of December 1997 and the resulting damage to the aircraft, TC-ALM was used for training purposes and fire brigade exercises (more of D-ABDI)
ID #1701043 / 396 Views 23-September-1979
EI-BGO First built as a CL-44-D4, she received a fuselage extension and swingtail and was delivered to Loftleidir Icelandic in November 1965, registered as TF-LLH in full pax configuration, able to carry up to 189 passengers. From 1971, converted to a full freighter and operated by Cargolux, payload almost 30 tons, she was in service, finally with Aer Turas until the end of 1985 (more of EI-BGO)
ID #1700916 / 620 Views 5-September-1978
10+01 The Otto Lilienthal, delivered to the Luftwaffe in September 1968 and named after the German aviation pioneer, was in service with the Federal Ministry of Defense for 30 years. Registered as LX-N19997 and officially designated as Boeing CT-49A, she was thereafter in service as a training aircraft for NATO AWACS crews until final retirement in 2010 (more of 10+01)
ID #1695255 / 108 Views -May-1990
CCCP-86054 A successful example of impressive aircraft construction, built in a quantity of more than100 planes. Remarkable fact, that passengers were able to carry their luggage into the hold themselves using the onboard passenger stairs. Still registered with Aeroflot, RA-86054 reported broken up in 2006 (more of CCCP-86054)
ID #1654909 / 176 Views 17-April-1980
9M-MHA Malaysian Airlines Systems first Airbus flew 15 years for MAS and for a few more years as N224KW for Carnival AL before being converted into a freighter in 1998 (more of 9M-MHA)
ID #1654908 / 354 Views 16-April-1980
N611BN After seven years in service with Lufthansa, originally christened in 1972 as Niedersachsen, D-ABYG became the Big Orange N611BN, nicknamed also The Great Pumpkin, flying routes from Dallas to Europe as well to the Far East. Other airlines and registrations followed. British Caledonian and British Airways as G-BJXN, Continental AL and Continental Micronesia as N78019, Air Atlanta Icelandic as TF-ATA and finally Logistic Air as 5U-ACE. This old lady has been stored at Roswell since 2007 (more of N611BN)
ID #1639918 / 244 Views -June-1985
F-BVGF This Airbus A300B-2, originally built for Air France and delivered in 1975, was in service for twenty years only in European air space, from 1983 until retirement in 1996 operated by Air Inter. F-BVGF was finally scrapped at the Ardmore Municipal Airport, Oklahoma in autumn 1996 (more of F-BVGF)
ID #1639910 / 189 Views 6-March-1983
ZS-SBR Umkomaas, named after the coastal town of the South Coast KwaZulu-Natals, has stayed in South Africa since its delivery in 1970 and serves today as a technical and cabin crew trainer for SAA in Johannesburg (more of ZS-SBR)
ID #1639909 / 225 Views 2-March-1983
ZS-SPC Maluti, seen here in the South African AW maintenance area, had a colorful working life including services for Air Mauritius as 3B-NAG, Avia Airlines as ZS-SPC and Air Namibia as V5-SPC. Since the transfer flight on September 30, 2006, ZS-SPC has been spending his well-deserved retirement in the SAA Museum at Johannesburg-Rand Airport together with his bigger brother Lebombo, ZS-SAN, who had arrived earlier in 2004 (more of ZS-SPC)
ID #1636259 / 295 Views -April-1986
SE-DBS Svipdag Viking was one of 10 DC-9s series -21 ever built. The only order customer for this special type was SAS, which received these planes between December 1968 and May 1969. The Series 20 was developed as a high-performance version of the Series -10 with a larger wingspan and more powerful engines (more of SE-DBS)
ID #1636192 / 77 Views -August-1987
SE-IRG Vigge Viking, one of only nine Fokker F27 Friendships, that were operated by SAS Commuter out of Copenhagen. From 1989 onwards SE-IRG was in service with FedEx as a parcel freighter for another twenty years, first operated by British Air Ferries as G-FEAD and from 1992 by Empire Airlines as N741FE (more of SE-IRG)
ID #1636105 / 311 Views -June-1990
SX-CBG Mount Menalon, the former Wiesbaden, which was in service with Lufthansa as D-ABKJ until February 1990, seen here a few month later still with Lufthansa cheatline. Clearly visible also the place, where the Wiesbaden city coat of arms and townname was painted (more of SX-CBG)
ID #1631523 / 192 Views -August-1978
G-APFL Only 3 of the 37 Boeing 707 series -400 built with Rolls-Royce Conway 508 turbofan engines have survived. G-APFL seen here in front of the old DUS terminal is now used as a restaurant in the Aero Beach Club near Entebbe airport. The other two B.707-400 are currently still present in Hamburg and Berlin (more of G-APFL)
ID #1631473 / 109 Views -June-1979
EC-CUM TAE Trabajos Aereos y Enlaces was originally founded in 1957 and carried out charter flights, from 1973 onwards with a pure jet fleet, consisting of Caravelle 10 and Douglas DC-8s of different series. Like her two sisters EC-CMS and EC-DFP, all Caravelles were leased from Sterling (more of EC-CUM)
ID #1631472 / 108 Views -September-1986
TC-ARI The first aircraft of Istanbul Airlines, Lale, named after the Turkish landmark of Istanbul - The Tulip - , seen here still in the livery of the previous operator SAT, ex D-ABAP and with the tulip as company logo (more of TC-ARI)
ID #1631391 / 122 Views -August-1985
EC-CIZ Registered as D-ANYL and in service with LTU from 1969 to 1974, EC-CIZ, which was operated afterwards first with Transeuropa Compania de Aviacion and from 1983 with Hispania, is seen here In Hispanias new color scheme, introduced in the summer of 1985 (more of EC-CIZ)
ID #1631203 / 132 Views 11-May-1981
N207EV This Douglas built B-17 was used by the CIA with Skyhook Surface Air Recovery System gear fitted in the nose for Project Coldfeet. This successful mission was carried out on June 1, 1962, which involved the dropping and retrieval of agents with Soviet anti-submarine warfare intelligance from a polar ice station, aboandoned by the Russians in May 1961. Since 2002 N207EV has been on display at the Evergreen Aviation Museum in McMinnville, Oregon, restored in its original military identity (more of N207EV)