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Photo taken by Klaus Held, scan kindly provided by him for inclusion on this page.

 

 

München-Riem

1968-09-07 (7 September 1968)

 

 

XL637 "Vega"

Bristol 175 Britannia C.1

13399

Royal Air Force Air Support Command

 

 

This Britannia was noted at Riem as XL637 with Royal Air Force on 7 September 1968 - in addition to RAF Britannia XM498, French Air Force Bréguet 765 Sahara 64-PF, four Belgian Air Force C-119G Flying Boxcars (CP-30, CP-31, CP-32, CP-34) and one Belgian Air Force DC-6A (KY-3)!

 

XL637 returned on 28 May 1973, and the airframe would be seen again at Riem as OO-YCH with Young Cargo on 1 September 1976 and Liberia World Airways on 6 December 1977.

 

Detailed history of this airframe:

www.xm496.com/xl637-vega/

 

This airframe as XL637 with RAF at PIK in 1973:

www.flickr.com/photos/markp51/14196576404/in/photolist-Uh...

 

OO-YCH with Liberia World Airways at MSE in January 1979:

imgproc.airliners.net/photos/airliners/0/1/5/2006510.jpg?...

 

This airframe as 9Q-CKG with Liberia World Airways at OST in May 1979:

www.flickr.com/photos/164494354@N04/40375576413

 

 

Scan from black-and-white print.

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