D-ABSI_1974-08_MUC_1600_WH

 

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

 

 

München-Riem

August 1974

 

D-ABSI "Hof"

Boeing 727-230/Adv

20789 / 1015

Lufthansa

 

Brand new aircraft - D-ABSI had only been delivered to Lufthansa in February that year.

 

Information from flickr - thanks to Paul (slightly adapted):

First flight at Renton was 14 February 1974, delivered new to Lufthansa 25 February 1974 as D-ABSI and named "Hof". To GM Aviation Services and leased to Pan Am as N359PA (second 727 with this registration) in June 1990. Returned and stored at Hagerstown, MD, in 1991. Converted to a freighter and leased to Continental Cargo Airlines in 1994. Returned in 2000 and stored at Perpignan, France. Broken up in 2014.

 

Registration details for this airframe:

rzjets.net/aircraft/?reg=332991

 

D-ABSI with Lufthansa at NUE in February 1990 (revised titles and no longer named "Hof"):

www.airhistory.net/photo/403973/D-ABSI

 

This airframe as N359PA with Pan Am at MIA in June 1991:

cdn.jetphotos.com/full/6/438611_1684485177.jpg

 

N359PA with GM Aviation Services/Continental Cargo Airlines at STN in April 1997:

www.flickr.com/photos/zone49photography/51813901250

 

N359PA at GRO in March 2005:

www.flickr.com/photos/peredavesa/8113889012

 

N359PA stored at PGF in April 2014:

www.flickr.com/photos/bushman787/13880398784

 

 

Scan from Kodachrome slide.

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