N990E_1978-09-24_MUC_1290_TK

 

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

 

 

München-Riem

1978-09-24 (24 September 1978)

 

N990E

Convair 990A-30A-5

30-10-16

Nomads Travel Club

 

N990E is lined up for take-off to Shannon on Riem’s runway 25. It had arrived on 18 September 1978 and stayed until 24 September 1978, I guess the travel club members visited the Oktoberfest beer festival. This airframe had been noted before at Riem with Modern Air Transport as N5607 on 20 February 1968 and 5 May 1968 and as N5624 on 7 May 1972.

 

This Convair 990A started out as N5607 with American Airlines in February 1962. It went on to Modern Air Transport in April 1967 as N5607 (later reregistered N5624), then to Nomads Travel Club as N990E in August 1975 and finally Galaxy Airlines and Christ is the Answer, still as N990E. Broken up at Fort Lauderdale (FL) during 1990-1991. (Sources: scramble.nl, rzjets.net)

 

Registration details for this airframe:

www.scramble.nl/database/civil/details/convair990_16

 

This airframe as N5607 with American Airlines at DTW in November 1964:

imgproc.airliners.net/photos/airliners/7/7/5/1342577.jpg

 

N5607 with Modern Air Transport at BFI in May 1967 (non-standard „The Silver Palace“ colours):

www.flickr.com/photos/23032926@N05/8382436910

 

N5607 with Modern Air Transport at CMH in July 1971 (later colours):

www.flickr.com/photos/23032926@N05/4916759810

 

This airframe as N5624 with Modern Air Transport at LGW in ca. 1972:

www.flickr.com/photos/keith_brooks/37197244974

 

N990E in basic Nomads colours probaly at KDTW in Romulus, Michigan:

www.flickr.com/photos/154191970@N03/46505426535

 

N990E with Galaxy at FLL in June 1986:

www.flickr.com/photos/steelhead2010/11011062906

 

N990E with Christ is the Answer at FLL in 1991:

www.flickr.com/photos/steelhead2010/9370334506

 

 

Scan from Kodachrome slide.

Done