17+03_1987-04_MUC_1290_WH

 

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

 

 

München-Riem

April 1987

 

17+03

VFW-Fokker VFW-614

MG.19/016

Deutsche Luftwaffe, Flugbereitschaft

(West German Air Force, Executive Transport Wing)

 

17+03 is taxiing to Riem’s runway 25 for take-off.

 

This was the last VFW-614 produced, and it has survived until today. First flight 29 July 1977, delivered to Luftwaffe as 17+03 on 30 August 1977, wfu on 30 September 1998 with 10093 flights and 12091 landings. Thereafter having been bought by a Jersey based company it was leased to Muk Air A/S of Denmark as OY-RRW until 2003 when it was sold to Lufthansa Technical Training as an instructional airframe registered D-ASDB initially at St Athan in Wales then later at Kemble in Oxfordshire where it resides to this day.

 

Detailed information on this airframe:

www.vfw614.de/dievfw614/die-flotte/g19/#page-content

 

This airframe as OY-RRW with Muk Air at CPH in October 2002:

www.flickr.com/photos/moreplanes/6159736761

 

This airframe as D-ASDB with Lufthansa Resource Technical Training St Athan in December 2008:

www.flickr.com/photos/l8rmt/48764183423

 

This airframe as D-ASDB with Lufthansa Resource Technical Training at Cotswold Airport, Kemble, in March 2011:

www.flickr.com/photos/16284843@N04/9336403316

 

This airframe as D-ASDB with Resource Group Aviation Technical Training at Cotswold Airport, Kemble, in September 2018:

www.flickr.com/photos/vlk77/44941330282

 

 

Scan from Kodachrome slide (on Kodak Photo CD).

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