D-BOBA_1973ca_MUC_1290_ARC

 

Photo from the Andreas Rink collection, slide kindly provided for scanning by Florian Weiß.

 

 

München-Riem

ca. summer 1973

 

D-BOBA (2)

Yakovlev Yak-40FG

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General Air

 

Note: D-BOBA (1) was Convair CV-240-4 c/n 145 flying for Flugdienst/Condor Flugdienst from October 1957 to October 1962.

D-BOBA (3) was DHC-8-311 c/n 234 flying for Hamburg Airlines between November 1990 and December 1997.

 

This airframe had also been noted at Riem on 29 September 1972 wearing its previous registration D-COBA. Using this type, General Air flew scheduled services between Saarbrücken and Munich on behalf of Lufthansa. Note the Monarch Britannia in the background.

 

This Yak-40FG was delivered to General Air in August 1972 as D-COBA (re-registered D-BOBA in February 1973). Following the airlines insolvency in October 1975, the airframe was ferried back to the USSR and registered as CCCP-48111 in December 1975 (re-registered RA-48111 in August 1993). Seen at Samara-Bezymyanka on 30 August 1997 in Aeroflot c/s, no titles; cancelled before February 2001. (Source: scramble.nl)

 

Registration details for this airframe:

www.scramble.nl/database/soviet/details/205_78592

 

Detailed information on the five Yak-40s operated by General Air:

www.ddr-luftfahrt.de/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2100

 

Information on General Air (in German) including many photos:

www.airlines-airliners.de/airlines/general_air.htm

 

This airframe as D-COBA with General Air at Lübeck in July 1972:

www.flickr.com/photos/chaika12/47206307562/in

 

 

Scan from slide (unknown brand).

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