CF-ZYP_1974-08_MUC_1290_WH

 

Photo taken by Wilhelm Hell, scan kindly provided by him for inclusion on this page.

 

 

München-Riem

August 1974

 

CF-ZYP "W.R. "Wop" May"

Boeing 707-396C

20043 / 786

Wardair Canada

 

CF-ZYP is taxiing to runway 25 for take-off. This airframe was also noted at Riem on 12 May 1969 (brand new after its delivery on 14 March 1969) and on 11 January 1971.

 

Information from airhistory.net - thanks to Paul Seymour:

Delivered to Wardair Canada as CF-ZYP in 1969. Reregistered as C-FZYP by 1975. To Montana Austria as OE-IDA in 1978. Seized by the US Justice Department and stored at Davis Monthan AFB in 1981. To the USAF as C-137C 85-6973 in 1985. Converted to an E-8C in 2000 and reserialled as 00-2000 in 2003.

 

00-2000 was retired in May 2023 and has been preserved at the Museum of Aviation at Robins Air Force Base, Georgia, since July 2023.

 

Registration details for this airframe:

www.planelogger.com/Aircraft/Registration/CF-ZYP/492909

 

This airframe as C-FZYP with Wardair Canada at YYZ in July 1977:

www.flickr.com/photos/23032926@N05/4920550706

 

This airframe as OE-IDA with Montana Austria at LHR in May 1979:

www.flickr.com/photos/105925977@N03/48703923993

 

This airframe as 85-6973 with USAF at Munich-Franz-Josef Strauss in June 1993:

imgproc.airliners.net/photos/airliners/9/5/7/4747759.jpg

 

This airframe as 00-2000 with USAF at RAF Fairford in July 2004:

www.flickr.com/photos/elferrito/25336996448

 

00-2000 with USAF being transported to its final destination at the Museum of Aviation, Robins Air Force Base, Georgia, on 16 July 2023:

media.defense.gov/2023/Jul/25/2003267908/-1/-1/0/230716-F...

 

 

Scan from Kodachrome slide (on Kodak Photo CD).

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