F-BLCL_1980-03_MUC_1200_NK
Photo taken by Norbert Kröpfl. Scan kindly provided by Michael Röser.
München-Riem
March 1980
F-BLCL
Boeing 707-328C
19917/763
Air France
Noted at Riem on 29 March 1980 instead of the usual Caravelle. Taxiing to runway 07 for take-off past the grandstands in the background built in 1939 as a viewing platform for spectators and still in existence today.
Information from saairforce.co.za:
Model 707-328C, c/n 19917, built at Renton, Washington USA, in 1968. Delivered to Air France as F-BLCL on 10 December 1968. To SAAF in March 1982, registered as ZS-LSK. Later serialed AF619, then 1419. Last operational flight on 13 September 2006. Ferried from Denel to AFB Waterkloof on 12 June 2007. Final flight from AFB Waterkloof to SAAF Museum, Swartkop, on 2 November 2007.
Total flying hours: 46 433 h
Number of landings: 15 799
Registration details for this airframe:
www.planelogger.com/Aircraft/Registration/F-BLCL/492722
F-BLCL with Air France at HEL in September 1976 (old colours):
www.airhistory.net/photos/0126632.jpg
This airframe as 1419 with South African Air Force at JNB in October 2004:
imgproc.airliners.net/photos/airliners/3/3/8/0703833.jpg
1419 with South African Air Force at JNB in January 2006 (later colours):
imgproc.airliners.net/photos/airliners/2/5/9/1009952.jpg
1419 performing the first of two flypasts before touching down for the last time ever on Swartkop AFB, 2 November 2007:
cdn.jetphotos.com/full/2/86932_1194037937.jpg
1419 on display at the South African Air Force Museum,
Swartkop AFB, Pretoria, South Africa, September 2014:
www.flickr.com/photos/ajw1970/22912435649
Scan from Kodachrome slide.
F-BLCL_1980-03_MUC_1200_NK
Photo taken by Norbert Kröpfl. Scan kindly provided by Michael Röser.
München-Riem
March 1980
F-BLCL
Boeing 707-328C
19917/763
Air France
Noted at Riem on 29 March 1980 instead of the usual Caravelle. Taxiing to runway 07 for take-off past the grandstands in the background built in 1939 as a viewing platform for spectators and still in existence today.
Information from saairforce.co.za:
Model 707-328C, c/n 19917, built at Renton, Washington USA, in 1968. Delivered to Air France as F-BLCL on 10 December 1968. To SAAF in March 1982, registered as ZS-LSK. Later serialed AF619, then 1419. Last operational flight on 13 September 2006. Ferried from Denel to AFB Waterkloof on 12 June 2007. Final flight from AFB Waterkloof to SAAF Museum, Swartkop, on 2 November 2007.
Total flying hours: 46 433 h
Number of landings: 15 799
Registration details for this airframe:
www.planelogger.com/Aircraft/Registration/F-BLCL/492722
F-BLCL with Air France at HEL in September 1976 (old colours):
www.airhistory.net/photos/0126632.jpg
This airframe as 1419 with South African Air Force at JNB in October 2004:
imgproc.airliners.net/photos/airliners/3/3/8/0703833.jpg
1419 with South African Air Force at JNB in January 2006 (later colours):
imgproc.airliners.net/photos/airliners/2/5/9/1009952.jpg
1419 performing the first of two flypasts before touching down for the last time ever on Swartkop AFB, 2 November 2007:
cdn.jetphotos.com/full/2/86932_1194037937.jpg
1419 on display at the South African Air Force Museum,
Swartkop AFB, Pretoria, South Africa, September 2014:
www.flickr.com/photos/ajw1970/22912435649
Scan from Kodachrome slide.