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EC-BIB ¦ BSL 22.07.1979

Sud Est SE.210 Caravelle 10R (c/n 223)

Transeuropa (Transeuropa Compañía de Aviación)

Basel-Mulhouse (BSL/LFSB)

22 July 1979

 

Built for Iberia in 1967, this Caravelle 10R was transferred to Aviaco in 1972, and acquired by charter carrier Transeuropa in March 1979. As such it was captured a few months later, flaring for then runway 16 at Basel and showing its bright new livery.

 

Transeuropa was founded in 1965, but folded its wings in 1982. EC-BIB was subsequently sold to Aerosucre Colombia as HK-2860, but withdrawn from use and stored at Barranquilla in 1983, and scrapped there some time after.

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Taken on July 22, 1979