YI-AKA_1982-05_MUC_1290_HS

 

Photo taken by Herwart Schneider and kindly provided by him for inclusion on this page.

 

 

München-Riem

May 1982

 

YI-AKA

Lockheed L-1329 JetStar II

2329-5233

Iraqi Airways

 

Here’s something special to mark the 1,500th image uploaded to this page, a fantastic and rare shot of Iraqi’s JetStar YI-AKA at Riem, taken by Herwart Schneider. MANY THANKS TO ALL THE CONTRIBUTORS!

 

YI-AKA was noted at Riem on 23 April 1982, probably the precise date of this shot.

 

This JetStar was originally delivered to Iraqi Airways in November 1979 as YI-AKA. From 1991 it flew as 7T-VHP for the Algerian AF, Air Algérie and the Palestine Government (as Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat‘s private aircraft until his death in 2004) before being placed into storage at GVA. Re-registered as OD-KMI, but never flying as such, the plane was restored, registered HB-JGK and flown in 2008 but went quickly back into storage. The fuselage hulk was moved to Kemble by road in July 2018 and was still there in April 2019. (Source: Alastair T. Gardiner on airliners.net, Jean-Luc Altherr on flickr)

 

Registration details for this airframe:

www.scramble.nl/database/civil/details/l1329_198

 

This airframe as 7T-VHP with Air Algérie at GVA in January 1994:

www.flickr.com/photos/134062278@N02/42624293804

 

7T-VHP with Air Algérie/Palestinian government at ZRH in June 2005:

www.flickr.com/photos/134062278@N02/42437614125

 

This airframe as OD-KMI at GVA in September 2007:

www.flickr.com/photos/134062278@N02/42437661705

 

This airframe as HB-JGK at BRN in May 2008:

cdn.jetphotos.com/full/2/44439_1217715165.jpg

 

This airframe performing its sole ever landing at GVA as HB-JGK in May 2008:

www.flickr.com/photos/134062278@N02/36337607705

 

HB-JGK being scrapped at GVA in 2018:

www.flickr.com/photos/134062278@N02/28238273527

 

The fuselage Hulk at Kemble in April 2019:

www.flickr.com/photos/leeweston/47645816481

 

 

Scan from Kodachrome slide.

Done