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AP-AXM - Boeing B-720-047B - Pakistan International Airlines (PIA)
at Karachi International Airport (KHI) in December 1984
c/n 18.749 - built in 1964 for Western Airlines -
sold to PIA 09/1974 and operated until 11/1985 -
scanned from Kodachrome-slide
One of the last remaining operational Royal Australian Air Force AP-3C Orions approaches RAAF Base Edinburgh, South Australia.
Replacing an earlier photo from Jun-15 with a better version.
First flown with the Airbus test registration D-AVZM, this aircraft was delivered to International Lease Finance Corporation and leased to Aero Lloyd as D-ALAM in Apr-00. Aero Lloyd ceased operations in Oct-03.
The aircraft was returned to the lessor and stored at Frankfurt. It was leased to Aero Flight (raised from the remains of Aero Lloyd) as D-ARFB in Apr-04. Aero Flight ceased operations at the end of Oct-05.
It was returned to the lessor and stored at Frankfurt initially, and later at Munich. It was leased to Air Blue (Pakistan) as AP-BJA in Jan-06. The aircraft was returned to the lessor as EI-ERS in Apr-11.
In Jul-11 it was due to be leased to Solaris/Vyborg Airlines as VQ-BLB but the lease was cancelled and it was leased to Ural Airlines as VQ-BOC in Oct-11. It was sold to ST Aerospace Resources in Sep-19 while the lease to Ural Airlines continued.
The aircraft was withdrawn from service and stored at Ekaterinburg, Russia in Sep-20 as a consequence of the COVID-19 Pandemic. It was ferried to Singapore-Seletar in Apr-21 and returned to ST Aerospace Resources it await 'P2F' freighter conversion.
It was re-registered D-AAEP in Dec-21 and ferried to San Antonio, TX, USA for freighter conversion. The aircraft was converted to P2F freighter with a main deck cargo door in Dec-22 and leased to Global X Airlines Cargo (Global Crossing Airlines) as N410GX later the same month. It entered service in Jan-23 after painting. Current, updated 19-Apr-25.
Note: The aircraft was damaged at Dubai, UAE on 17-Feb-14 when a catering truck hit the right rear fuselage hard enough to swing the nose of the aircraft approx 5mtrs to the right, a flight attendant who was boarding the aircraft fell from the jetway onto the ramp and was seriously injured. The aircraft was repaired and returned to service in Aug-14.
This A&P FutureStore has been sitting abandoned since 1994, when the store closed. The windows were left uncovered for many years, and were boarded up only in the last few years as the interior has also been stripped and prepped for demolition. I was able to get this shot through a door window which was left uncovered. You can still see the stark white and black which were the trademarks of the Futurestore interior. There are better shots in my 2009 pictures, before the store windows were boarded-up:
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Update: This store has been demolished this week, December 26, 2016
Promotional poster from one of A&P's many renewal campaigns...this one, launched in 1998, was called "The Great Renewal", and was CEO Christian Haub's newest plan to get the company back to profitability (again). The plan included closing unprofitable stores and divisions and upgrading the company's aging and outdated mainframe infrastructure, which was the backbone of its inefficient supply chain. The "Great Renewal" name was dropped mid-2000's, as the campaign sputtered and struggled, proving much more complex than initially planned, and people became demotivated.
As of early 2015, A&P was still struggling to implement a chainwide automated inventory replenishment system (commonly known as "CGO"--computer-generated ordering) which was implemented at most big chains (and even smaller regionals) since the late 90's.