D-ABOX_1976-06-18_MUC_1290_MB

 

Photo taken by Michael Bernhard, scan kindly provided by him for inclusion on this page.

 

 

München-Riem

1976-06-18 (18 June 1976)

 

D-ABOX "Köln"

Boeing 707-330B

18819 / 398

Lufthansa

 

D-ABOX is taxiing by the viewing terrace to runway 07 - the fence has become a little higher since the 1960s, but you still were very close to the action as can be seen here.

 

First flight 23 December 1964 and delivered to Lufthansa as D-ABOX on 10 January 1965. Sold to Air Zimbabwe as VP-WKR in February 1981 (re-registered Z-WKR in October 1983). Sold to African International as 5Y-AXM in August 1990. Wfu at Nairobi in 1996 and broken up by 2004. (Source: planelogger.com)

 

Registration details for this airframe:

www.planelogger.com/Aircraft/Registration/D-ABOX/491069

 

D-ABOX with Lufthansa at SYD in January 1966 (initial colours):

www.airhistory.net/photo/15203/D-ABOX

 

D-ABOX with Lufthansa at CGN in 1968 (revised titles):

www.planepictures.net/a/30/73/1108768310.jpg

 

Another shot of D-ABOX with Lufthansa at Riem, in April 1977:

www.planepictures.net/a/36/79/1122524053.jpg

 

This airframe as VP-WKR with Air Zimbabwe at LGW in April 1981:

www.flickr.com/photos/chrischenn76/5710121783

 

This airframe as Z-WKR with Air Zimbabwe at FRA in March 1985 (later colours):

www.flickr.com/photos/coptercrazy/50446160038/in

 

This airframe as 5Y-AXM with African International at NBO ca. early 1990s:

www.flickr.com/photos/154191970@N03/51643383807

 

 

Scan from Kodachrome slide.

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