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NASM 🇺🇸 ∫ FEDEX “Wendy“ • FX - FDX | Dassault • Falcon 20DC | N8FE “First Overnight Cargo Aircraft“ ∫ © #AWP-CHR

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@ Federal Express ( USA ) 🇺🇸

Dassault Falcon ( Mystere ) 20DC - msn 199

• REG : N8FE

• RMK : Named : "Wendy"

 

@ History Aircraft :

• 1969 : First flight - Bordeaux ( BOD ) France

• 17.APR.1973 : "Federal Express" FX & FDX started overnight operations with it and revolutionized/pioneered the "overnight" air express industry ( FedEx purchased 33 of the popular Falcon 20 business jets as its first aircraft, modifying each with a cargo door and a strengthened floor ) "Wendy" was FedEx's first aircraft named after the daughter of their founder Fred Smith

• 1983 : The Company donated it to the Smithsonian and displayed now at the Udvar Hazy Center Chantilly

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