N156US_1990ca_MUC_1600_GRC

 

Photo from the Günter Rötzer collection, slide kindly provided for scanning by Florian Weiß.

 

 

München-Riem

ca. early 1990

 

N156US

McDonnell Douglas DC-10-40

46765 / 143

Northwest Airlines

 

A rare DC-10 for Riem, taken from an unusual position only accessible to ramp spotters.

 

Information from airhistory.net - thanks to Paul Seymour:

Delivered to Northwest Orient Airlines as N156US in 1974. Renamed to Northwest Airlines in 1986. Withdrawn from use at Greenwood, MS, in 2002 and scrapped in 2003.

 

Registration details for this airframe:

rzjets.net/aircraft/?reg=337897

 

N156US with Northwest Orient at MIA in May 1978:

www.flickr.com/photos/73886013@N06/17139485431

 

N156US with Northwest at MIA in March 1993 (now with logo on tail):

www.flickr.com/photos/22331715@N06/2409832893

 

N156US with Northwest at AMS in March 1997 (later colours):

www.flickr.com/photos/lifelinerone/14111017309

 

N156US derelict at GWO in January 2003:

www.flickr.com/photos/28042007@N07/3233628801

 

 

Scan from Kodachrome slide.

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