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72_1974-12_MUC_1200_NK

 

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

 

München-Riem

December 1974

 

72

Nord 262E-29 Frégate

72

Aéronavale (French Navy)

 

Aéronavale Nord 262 72 accompanied by sister ship 65 at Riem in 1974. 72 was seen at Riem again on 7 October 1977, 65 on 2 November 1977.

 

Aéronavale Nord 262s noted at Riem in the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s include (I guess there were more):

43 (October 1990)

45 (February 1980)

52 (October 1981)

53 (7 October 1978)

60 (3 July 1975, 21 June 1990)

61 (13 March 1975)

65 (December 1974, 2 November 1977)

69 (13 March 1975)

70 (6 July 1978)

71 (17 November 1976)

72 (December 1974, 7 October 1977)

75 (21 June 1977, 29 June 1979)

85 (3 July 1975)

100 (December 1986)

 

 

1970 built Nord 262, delivered to Aéronavale on 22 December 1970 (source: rzjets.net). This aircraft officially performed the last flight of a French Navy Nord 262 on 25 February 2009 at Nîmes Garons and was withdrawn from use but still flown from Nîmes to Paris-Le Bourget on 23 June 2009 where it is now preserved in the Paris-Le Bourget Air & Space Museum.

 

List of Aéronavale Nord 262s:

www.ffaa.net/aircraft/fregate/fleet.htm

 

Report on Aéronavale 72’s last flight (in French):

www.netmarine.net/aero/aeronefs/n262/derniervol.htm

 

Portrait of this airframe on the Musée de l’Air et de l’Espace website, including photos and video:

www.museeairespace.fr/aller-plus-haut/collections/nord-av...

 

72 at FFD in July 1993, fitted with a search radar in a radome underneath the forward fuselage:

www.flickr.com/photos/jaydeekay/35669663281

 

72 at LBG in October 2018:

www.flickr.com/photos/bds13/44410890705

 

 

Scan from Kodachrome slide.

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