N805WA_1976-10ca_MUC_1600_AM
Photo taken by Andreas Müller, slide kindly provided for scanning by Michael Bernhard.
München-Riem
ca. October 1976
N805WA (1)
McDonnell Douglas DC-8-63CF
46143 / 547
World Airways
N805WA is about to line up on Riem’s runway 07 for take-off. This airframe was noted here on 20 March 1976, 16 October 1976, 8 June 1977, 29 July 1978 and 30 June 1979 (but probably visited more often than that).
Note: N805WA (2) was McDonnell Douglas MD-83 c/n 53470/2135 operating for World Atlantic Airlines from October 2013.
Information from airliners.net (Gary Vincent):
Delivered to Atlantis Airways April 15, 1971 as D-ADIY but sold to Greyhound Leasing in December 1972 after the airline ceased operations. World leased the DC-8 from 1973 to 1982 for their own charters as well as operating for Garuda and Air Algerie.
Registration details for this airframe:
rzjets.net/aircraft/?reg=35915
This airframe as D-ADIY with Atlantis ca. 1971:
www.airliners-airlines.de/fotoserien3/atlantis_ag/d_adiy.jpg
N805WA with World Airways at YYZ in September 1978 (later colours):
imgproc.airliners.net/photos/airliners/7/7/9/2446977.jpg
N805WA with Capitol at ARN in August 1983:
imgproc.airliners.net/photos/airliners/9/2/6/0311629.jpg
N805WA with Transamerica Airlines at MAN in 1983 (full colours):
www.flickr.com/photos/princeaviationimages/8290827117
This airframe as N959R at STN in July 1985 (stripped of all paint):
imgproc.airliners.net/photos/airliners/7/8/1/7531187.jpg
N959R with Emery Worldwide at PIK in 1989:
www.flickr.com/photos/markp51/45424697794
This airframe as PR-SKC with Skymaster Airlines at GRU in January 2004:
www.flickr.com/photos/156207007@N06/36371984785
Scrapped in October 2013 at Aeroporto Internacional de Viracopos:
www.flickr.com/photos/spotter_landucci/10612973303
Nose section preserved at Kidzania in Eldorado Shopping Mall, São Paulo, Brasil, in May 2016:
www.planepictures.net/a/142/84/1465801360.jpg
Scan from Kodachrome slide.
N805WA_1976-10ca_MUC_1600_AM
Photo taken by Andreas Müller, slide kindly provided for scanning by Michael Bernhard.
München-Riem
ca. October 1976
N805WA (1)
McDonnell Douglas DC-8-63CF
46143 / 547
World Airways
N805WA is about to line up on Riem’s runway 07 for take-off. This airframe was noted here on 20 March 1976, 16 October 1976, 8 June 1977, 29 July 1978 and 30 June 1979 (but probably visited more often than that).
Note: N805WA (2) was McDonnell Douglas MD-83 c/n 53470/2135 operating for World Atlantic Airlines from October 2013.
Information from airliners.net (Gary Vincent):
Delivered to Atlantis Airways April 15, 1971 as D-ADIY but sold to Greyhound Leasing in December 1972 after the airline ceased operations. World leased the DC-8 from 1973 to 1982 for their own charters as well as operating for Garuda and Air Algerie.
Registration details for this airframe:
rzjets.net/aircraft/?reg=35915
This airframe as D-ADIY with Atlantis ca. 1971:
www.airliners-airlines.de/fotoserien3/atlantis_ag/d_adiy.jpg
N805WA with World Airways at YYZ in September 1978 (later colours):
imgproc.airliners.net/photos/airliners/7/7/9/2446977.jpg
N805WA with Capitol at ARN in August 1983:
imgproc.airliners.net/photos/airliners/9/2/6/0311629.jpg
N805WA with Transamerica Airlines at MAN in 1983 (full colours):
www.flickr.com/photos/princeaviationimages/8290827117
This airframe as N959R at STN in July 1985 (stripped of all paint):
imgproc.airliners.net/photos/airliners/7/8/1/7531187.jpg
N959R with Emery Worldwide at PIK in 1989:
www.flickr.com/photos/markp51/45424697794
This airframe as PR-SKC with Skymaster Airlines at GRU in January 2004:
www.flickr.com/photos/156207007@N06/36371984785
Scrapped in October 2013 at Aeroporto Internacional de Viracopos:
www.flickr.com/photos/spotter_landucci/10612973303
Nose section preserved at Kidzania in Eldorado Shopping Mall, São Paulo, Brasil, in May 2016:
www.planepictures.net/a/142/84/1465801360.jpg
Scan from Kodachrome slide.