N803WA_1972-04_MUC_1600_AM

 

Photo taken by Andreas Müller, slide kindly provided for scanning by Michael Bernhard.

 

 

München-Riem

April 1972

 

N803WA (1)

McDonnell Douglas DC-8-63CF

46149 / 538

World Airways

 

N803WA is lined up for take-off on Riem’s runway 07.

 

Note: N803WA (2) was McDonnell Douglas MD-82 c/n 49507/1425 operating with World Atlantic Airlines from May 2015 to May 2019.

 

Information from airliners.net (Frank C. Duarte Jr.):

Manufact'd on August 20, 1970. Delivery date was March 29, 1971. Built as DC-8-63CF, cvt'd to DC-8-73CF in 1982. Other serials - A4O-HMQ with Oman Royal Flight, A4O-HM with Sultan HM Qaboos bin Said, N803WA with World Awys, Air Algerie, and Overseas National Awys, N831AL with Emery Worldwide, ABX Air, Aerolease, Aerofreighter Llc, and WTCT, N874SJ with Air-India Cargo, N785AL with Aerolease, and also N6167A with Airlift Intl - ntu. Stored at ROW. Broken-up after 2007.

 

Registration details for this airframe:

rzjets.net/aircraft/?reg=33606

 

This airframe as N803WA/A4O-HM with Oman Royal Flight at BSL in May 1980:

www.bsl-mlh-planes.net/resize.php?id=4175

 

This airframe as A4O-HMQ with Oman Royal Flight converted to DC-8-73CF at GVA in January 1988:

www.flickr.com/photos/134062278@N02/25222975707

 

This airframe as N874SJ with Air India Cargo:

www.flickr.com/photos/keith_burton/38465009296

 

This airframe as N874SJ with Southern Air Transport at LAX in July 1996:

imgproc.airliners.net/photos/airliners/4/2/6/0565624.jpg

 

This airframe as N831AL with Emery Worldwide at FLL in November 2000:

www.flickr.com/photos/airlinerphotos-de/31725535687

 

 

Scan from Kodachrome slide.

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