G-BIUR_1981-06_MUC_1600_WH

 

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

 

 

München-Riem

June 1981

 

G-BIUR

Boeing 727-155C

19619/470

Dan-Air London

 

G-BIUR is taxiing to Riem’s runway 25 for take-off, in full Dan-Air London colours during a short lease to the airline in 1981. This airframe had previously been noted at Riem on 17 November 1972 as YA-FAW with Ariana Afghan Airlines (on a diversion from FRA) and would return on 8 August 1982 with Dan-Air London in basic Kabo Air colours.

 

Information from flickr - thanks to Chris (Heathrow Junkie):

YA-FAW c/n 19619 Boeing 727-55C - delivered new to Executive Jet Aviation as N531EJ in 1967, leased to United, Trans Caribbean Airlines and World, and then sold To Ariana Afghan Airlines as YA-FAW in 1971. Leased to Dan-Air as G-BIUR for just a few months in 1981, and then sold to Icelandair as TF-FLJ. Leased to Kabo Air in 1981/82, also to Dan-Air again, and then back to Ariana for another 19 years. The aircraft was destroyed in a US bombing raid on Kabul in 2001.

 

Registration details for this airframe:

www.planelogger.com/Aircraft/Registration/YA-FAW/497166

 

This airframe as N531EJ in full Ariana Afghan colours at LHR on 28 August 1971:

www.flickr.com/photos/11977330@N00/15022378344

 

This airframe as TF-FLJ with Kabo Air at RKV in March 1982:

imgproc.airliners.net/photos/airliners/2/0/5/1741502.jpg

 

This airframe as YA-FAW with Bakhtar Afghan Airlines at BRU in July 1987:

www.planepictures.net/a/50/08/1151013464.jpg

 

YA-FAW with Ariana Afghan at SHJ in March 2001:

imgproc.airliners.net/photos/airliners/9/7/3/0153379.jpg

 

 

Scan from Kodachrome slide.

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