Austrian A320-214418 viewsDelivered to Austrian Airlines on 1/2/2000,this A320 in the old Star Alliance colors called the washing line livery flew with airline for five years with registration OE-LBR and was named "Bregenzerwald"(an Austrian ski resort),This aircraft now flies with Lauda Air,and keeps the original registration.
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Pan Am B314 Flying boat312 viewsBoeings classic B314 flying boat was registered NC18603,and christened Yankee Clipper by Eleanor Roosevelt on March 3 1939.
Yankee Clipper crashed while attempting to land when the left wingtip of the aircraft contacted the water of the River Tagus during a descending turn 22/2/1943.
PROBABLE CAUSE: "An inadvertent contact of the left wing tip of the aircraft with the water while making a descending turn preparatory to landing."
A special thanks to http://aviation-safety.net for use of the information.
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American Airlines 727-223/ADV7267 viewsRegistered as N844AA and flown by American from 1975 until 2001,this 727 was then converted to a freighter for IRS Airlines and in May 2003 was stolen from Luanda,Angola.She has never been seen since.
(1:280th scale Matchbox kit)
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Air Bridge Cargo 747-329(SF)5226 viewsBuilt in 1990,this was the last 747-300 built and was delivered to Sabena with the registration OO-SGD on 25/9/1990.After FSB in 1999 she was converted to a freighter for Atlas Air in 2000.In 2002 she went to Polar Air Cargo and in 2004 Air Atlanta Icelandic(leased from East Trust).Finally on 6/10/2005 Air Bridge Cargo as VP-BIC.
Hugo's Aircraft Scale Models (e-bay shop),
Specalists in 1:500,1:400 commercial aircraft.
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Aerolineas Argentinas 747SP-27448 viewsDelivered new to Braniff International on 23/4/1980 in their flying colors scheme,and registered as N604BN.On 4/9/1980 she went to Aerolineas Argentinas with the registration LV-OHV,and after other airlines is still in service in Qatar. Hugo's Aircraft Scale Models (e-bay shop), Specalists in 1:500,1:400 commercial aircraft.
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Air France 747-128250 viewsAir France was the first non-american airline to order /take delivery of the 747-100
This is F-BPVA,the first 747 delivered to the airline and the 19th built by Boeing,this livery was used from 1960 to 1977.
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Air France 747-428345 viewsF-GITC was delivered to Air France on 9/12/1991.
Boeing's Queen of the skies.
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Air France 777-228ER362 viewsDelivered to Air France on 21/5/2002 with the registration F-GSPZ,later that year this triple 7 suffered a cockpit fire en route to Los Angeles(LAX)from Paris(CDG) when the windshield de-icer short circuited.After the fire was extinguished the flightcrew made a precautionary landing at Churchill,Manitoba(Canada) with 172 passengers and 17 crew with no injuries. Model from http://www.airspotters.com
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Air India L-749A Constellation692 viewsFirst flown in 1948 this Constellation was named Malabar Princess and made the first of weekly flights between Bombay and London.
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Air New Zealand276 viewsAir New Zealand 747-419
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Air Transat A330-243561 viewsRegistered C-GITS this A330 was involved in a fuel starvation incident in 2001 due to a fuel leak.The captain and first officer managed to glide her for twenty minutes over the Azores before landing safely and became the longest glide of a commercial aircraft.
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Alitalia SE-210 Caravelle430 viewsRegistered I-DABA and delivered to Alitalia on 23/1/1961 with the name "Regolo".This aircraft was the first Caravelle delivered from the airlines order of twenty one.Hugo's Aircraft Scale Models (e-bay shop),
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