D-BOBC_1973ca_MUC_1290_TK

 

Photo taken by Theo Kastner and kindly provided by him for inclusion on this page.

 

 

München-Riem

ca. 1973

 

D-BOBC

Yakovlev Yak-40FG

9230122

General Air

 

D-BOBC is lined up for take-off on Riem’s runway 25.

 

Delivered new to General Air as D-COBC in July 1972, re-registered as D-BOBC in February 1973. Following the airline‘s insolvency in October 1975, the airframe was ferried back to the USSR in December 1975 and registered as CCCP-87819 (2). It went on to the Government of Angola as D2-EAG in December 1976 and served as VIP aircraft until wfu at LAD ca. 2007 (leased to Cadabo and Alinord of Italy as I-JAKO in 1986/1987 and from 1987 to 1993 respectively). Seen at LAD in March 2009 in the scrap compound; no longer visible on Google Earth in January 2013. (Sources: scramble.nl and ddr-luftfahrt.de)

 

Registration details for this airframe:

www.scramble.nl/database/soviet/details/205_79244

 

Detailed information on the five Yak-40s operated by General Air (in German):

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 D2-EAG at CPH in June 1976 (Aeroflot colours):

www.flickr.com/photos/157369642@N02/38569773532

 

D2-EAG with Government of Angola at MLA in June 1983:

www.airhistory.net/photo/445695/D2-EAG

 

This airframe as I-JAKO with Cadabo at LIN in April 1987:

www.airhistory.net/photo/762949/I-JAKO

 

I-JAKO with Alinord at LIN in May 1987 (full colours, no logo on tail):

www.airhistory.net/photo/763021/I-JAKO

 

I-JAKO with Alinord at LIN in March 1988 (now with logo on tail):

cdn.jetphotos.com/full/2/53556_1159085715.jpg

 

D2-EAG with Government of Angola at ATH in August 1991 (later colours):

www.flickr.com/photos/gp707/50257932427

 

 

Scan from Kodachrome slide.

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