TU-TCF Air Afrique Douglas DC-8-63CF on pushback at Paris CDG with HS-TGG Thai Boeing 747-2D7B behind
Two of the best liveries of the 1980s. TU-TCF Air Afrique stretched Douglas DC-8-63CF pushes back in front of Thai International Boeing 747-2D7B HS-TGG at Roissy (Paris - Charles de Gaulle).
TU-TCF 'Ndjamena' c/n 46135 - Douglas DC-8-63CF - delivered new to Air Afrique in 1970, and flew with the airline for 20 years. One of the last of 556 DC-8s to be built as production ceased early in 1972. Sold to Arrow Air in 1991 as N784AL, the aircraft flew another 18 years, only being withdrawn in 2009, and broken up the following year in Miami. An amazing 39 year lifespan!
HS-TGG c/n 22471 'Sriwanna' Boeing 747-2D7B was delivered new to Thai Airways International in Mar 1981, the last of six series 200s that the airline operated. The aircraft flew with the airline for 16 years before being sold to Atlas Air in 1997, and converted to a freighter, registered N527MC. After flying as a freighter for another 11 years, the aircraft was written off in an accident at Lome, Togo, on 02 Feb 2008.
Taken with a Soviet made Zenith TTL camera. From an original slide, scanned and unrestored.
You can see a random selection of my aviation memories here: www.flickriver.com/photos/heathrowjunkie/random/
TU-TCF Air Afrique Douglas DC-8-63CF on pushback at Paris CDG with HS-TGG Thai Boeing 747-2D7B behind
Two of the best liveries of the 1980s. TU-TCF Air Afrique stretched Douglas DC-8-63CF pushes back in front of Thai International Boeing 747-2D7B HS-TGG at Roissy (Paris - Charles de Gaulle).
TU-TCF 'Ndjamena' c/n 46135 - Douglas DC-8-63CF - delivered new to Air Afrique in 1970, and flew with the airline for 20 years. One of the last of 556 DC-8s to be built as production ceased early in 1972. Sold to Arrow Air in 1991 as N784AL, the aircraft flew another 18 years, only being withdrawn in 2009, and broken up the following year in Miami. An amazing 39 year lifespan!
HS-TGG c/n 22471 'Sriwanna' Boeing 747-2D7B was delivered new to Thai Airways International in Mar 1981, the last of six series 200s that the airline operated. The aircraft flew with the airline for 16 years before being sold to Atlas Air in 1997, and converted to a freighter, registered N527MC. After flying as a freighter for another 11 years, the aircraft was written off in an accident at Lome, Togo, on 02 Feb 2008.
Taken with a Soviet made Zenith TTL camera. From an original slide, scanned and unrestored.
You can see a random selection of my aviation memories here: www.flickriver.com/photos/heathrowjunkie/random/