D-ACIP_1972-07_MUC_1200_NK

 

Photo taken by Norbert Kröpfl. Scan kiindly provided from the NK slide collection by Stephan Barth.

 

 

München-Riem

July 1972

 

D-ACIP

Boeing 720-025

18162/240

Calair

 

Calair was a very short-lived German charter operator.

 

Information on Calair (in German):

www.airlines-airliners.de/airlines/calair.htm

 

Information on this airframe (from rzjets.net and jetphotos.com):

Built in 1961 (first flight 10 April 1961).

Delivered to Eastern Air Lines as N8708E in August 1961,

to Calair as D-ACIP in December 1970,

to Air Rhodesia as VP-YNL in April 1973,

transferred to Air Zimbabwe as Z-YNL in 1980,

sold to Air Charter Services Zaire/New ACS as 9Q-CTD in November 1980.

Wfu by 1994, b/u Kinshasa-N'Djili by February 1998.

 

Registration details for this airframe:

www.planelogger.com/Aircraft/Registration/D-ACIP/490374

 

This airframe as N8708E with Eastern Airlines at BSL in Oct. 1969:

www.bsl-mlh-planes.net/bigpicture/picture_id/1278

 

D-ACIP at BSL in January 1971 (bare metal):

www.bsl-mlh-planes.net/bigpicture/picture_id/10348

 

This airframe as VP-YNL with Air Rhodesia, ca. mid-1970s:

www.flickr.com/photos/154191970@N03/34356564132

 

This airframe as VP-YNL with Air Zimbabwe at ARN in 1981:

cdn.jetphotos.com/full/6/78236_1581448762.jpg

 

This airframe as 9Q-CTD with ACS at FIH in January 1992:

samchui.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/D-72-720-025-9Q-CT...

 

9Q-CTD with New ACS at FIH ca. 1990s:

aviationrainbowscom.files.wordpress.com/2018/07/img309-bo...

 

 

Here’s how the Calair B720s came to fly for Air Rhodesia, reported in great detail:

rhodesianheritage.blogspot.com/2013/05/air-rhodesias-b720...

rhodesianheritage.blogspot.com/2013/05/air-rhodesias-boei...

 

 

Scan from Kodachrome K25 slide.

 

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