035. D-ABAS Douglas DC-7C Seven Seas Sudflug LPL 03MAR65
Replacing an earlier scanned slide with a better version 08-Jul-20, plus DeNoise AI 28-Jan-23. [a Condor Viscount D-ANUN and this DC-7C were parked so close together that I couldn't get a decent angle on either of them...]
This aircraft was the 3rd from the end of the production line and was delivered new to KLM Royal Dutch Airlines as PH-DSP in Nov-58 (you can just make out its KLM name on the nose, "Japanse Zee" {"Sea of Japan"]). Six years later, in Nov-64, they sold it to Sudflug as D-ABAS.
In Aug-68 it was sold to 'North American Aircraft Trading' and registered in Mauritania as 5T-TAL. In Feb-69 it was transferred to ARCO Bermuda Ltd as VR-BCZ and stored at Basel, Switzerland. It was broken up there in Dec-70. A ten year operational life isn't a lot by today's standards.
035. D-ABAS Douglas DC-7C Seven Seas Sudflug LPL 03MAR65
Replacing an earlier scanned slide with a better version 08-Jul-20, plus DeNoise AI 28-Jan-23. [a Condor Viscount D-ANUN and this DC-7C were parked so close together that I couldn't get a decent angle on either of them...]
This aircraft was the 3rd from the end of the production line and was delivered new to KLM Royal Dutch Airlines as PH-DSP in Nov-58 (you can just make out its KLM name on the nose, "Japanse Zee" {"Sea of Japan"]). Six years later, in Nov-64, they sold it to Sudflug as D-ABAS.
In Aug-68 it was sold to 'North American Aircraft Trading' and registered in Mauritania as 5T-TAL. In Feb-69 it was transferred to ARCO Bermuda Ltd as VR-BCZ and stored at Basel, Switzerland. It was broken up there in Dec-70. A ten year operational life isn't a lot by today's standards.