Paris - Orly (ORY / LFPO)

France - June 1986

First Flight 2.1980

Del.3.1980 to Air France F-GBEB

Air Inter F-GBEB ✔

Holiday Air TC-RAB

Airbus Industrie TC-RAB

Ratioflug D-ARAT

Scrapped

@ AIR FRANCE (ex-Air Inter} | A321 | F-GMZA

• Country : F | France 🇫🇷

• Date : 1933 -

• Codes : AF AFR

• Callsign : AirFrans

• Web site : www.airfrance.fr

@ AIRBUS | A321 - 100 | CN 498

• Production Site : Hamburg (XFW) 🇪🇺🇩🇪

• Serial number : cn 498

• Type : 321-111

• First flight date : 10/06/1994

• Test registration : D-AVZK

• Seat configuration : Y212 Seat

• Hex code : 393320

• Engines : 2 x CFMI CFM56-5B1

@ OPERATORS OF THE AIRCRAFT

• F-GMZA > 30/06/1994 > Air Inter ( IT & ITF )

• F-GMZA > 01/09/1997 > Air France

• Stored > 12/2025 > To be scrapped at LDE

Air Corsica

Airbus A320-211 F-GHQE ( cn.115 ) with 2x CFMI CFM56-5A1 Engines

@ Picture :

# Wearing special livery to celebrate 25 years of Air Corsica

@ History :

# 10.AUG.1990 : First flight

# 02.OCT.1990 : Delivered to "Air Inter" IT & ITF with reg F-GHQE

# 12.SEP.1997 : Tsfd to "Air France" AF & AFR with cabin config CY172

# 29.MAR.2013 : Tsfd to "Air Corsica" XK & CCM

# 18.FEB.2016 : Stored at MZJ AZ.USA

On display at the Aeroscopia Aeronautical Museum.

LBG 12/08/2012

Kodachrome collection slide.

Airline : Air Inter

Aircraft : Airbus A330-301

Registration : F-GMDA

MSN/LN : 30

Location : ORY / LFPO - Paris Orly Int'l Airport

Photographer : UNKNOWN

Date : April 1994

Box 423

Prints are available here : airlinersgallery.smugmug.com/Airlines-Europe-1/Airlines-F...

F-BNKJ Aerospatiale SE.210 Caravelle 3 Air Inter. Spent her entire life with Air Inter, scrapped at Orly in 1981 (slide scan from my collection - not taken by myself).

Dassault Mercure 100

Air Inter

Technik Museum

Speyer 1/4/2023

Photo scanned from a slide

19th May 2016., Aeroscopia Museum, Toulouse Airport, France

Kodachrome collection slide.

Airline : Air Inter

Aircraft : Airbus A300B2-1C

Registration : F-BUAM

MSN/LN : 21

Location : ORY / LFPO - Paris Orly Int'l Airport

Photographer : UNKNOWN

Date : June 1984

Box 380

cn 6

Mfd in 10.74

Retired later in 1994

cn 5

Mfd in 08.74

Retired later in 1994

5N-AVP Sud-Aviation SE-210 Caravelle 3 Intercontinental Airlines - shortly before delivery from Air Inter, where she served as F-BNKL. Later destroyed at Dakar (slide scan from my collection - not taken by myself).

@ Air France (AF/AFR) France

• Date : 1933 -

• Codes : AF AFR

• Callsign : AirFrans

• Web site : www.airfrance.fr

@ Airbus A319-113 - cn 600

• Engines : 2x CFMI CFM56-5A4

• Reg : F-GPMB

• Cabin : Y142

@ AICRAFT HISTORY :

• 30.MAY.1996 : First flight / D-AVYC / Hamburg ( XFW ) 🇩🇪

• 02.JUL.1996 : Delivered to "Air Inter Europe" IT & ITF / F-GPMB

• 12.SEP.1997 : Tfd to "Air France" AF & AFR / F-GPMB

• JUL.2018 : Broken up at St. Athan RAF Station (DGX/EGDX) UK

@ AIR FRANCE (ex-Air inter) 🇫🇷 | A320 | F-GGEB (Scrapped now}

• Country : France

• Date : 1933 -

• Codes : AF AFR

• Callsign : AirFrans

• Web site : www.airfrance.fr

@ Airbus A320-111 • cn 012

• ENG : 2x CFMI CFM56-5A1

• REG : F-GGEB

• CAB : CY172

• RMK : Scrapped now

@ History Aircraft :

• 17.FEB.1988 : First flight under test reg F-WWDM at built site Toulouse ( LFBO ) France

• 05.AUG.1988 : Delivered to "Air Inter" IT & ITF with reg F-GGEB

• 12.SEP.1997 : Tfd to "Air France" AF & AFR with reg F-GGEB

• MAY.2010 : Stored at ORY

• AUG.2010 : Broken up at ORY

Shannon 28-5-1994

Looking smart with the titles of all of Air Littoral, Air France and Air Inter. Take your pick!

On display at Midlands Air Museum, Coventry Airport, 20th July 2022.

Paris Orly 18.5.86

copyright © 1986 Chris Chennell

BSL - Basel

February 1983

Original Kodachrome from Collection

On display at Midlands Air Museum, Coventry Airport, 20th July 2022.

5N-AWK Sud-Aviation SE210 Caravelle 3 Kabo Air. Obviously ex Air Inter - destroyed at Calabar, Nigeria, in August 1986 (scan from my collection - not taken by myself).

Paris - Orly (ORY / LFPO)

France - June 1986

First Flight 8.1978

Del. 10.1978 to Air Inter F-BUAI ✔

European Aircharter G-CEAA

scrapped

Kodachrome collection slide.

Airline : Air Inter

Aircraft : Airbus A320-111

Registration : F-GGED

MSN/LN : 15

Location : BSL / LFSB - Basel-Mulhouse Int'l Airport

Photographer : UNKNOWN

Date : March 1989

Notes : On January 20th, 1992, Air Inter flight 148, F-GGED - hit high terrain southwest of Strasbourg airport, due to an inadvertent selection of a descent rate of 3,300fpm versus a descent angle of 3.3 degrees, coupled with the fact that at the exact moment this autopilot action was enabled, the aircraft encountered a slight updraft. This caused a quirky feature of the Airbus autopilot to begin an emergency descent, at a rate far steeper. Sadly, Air Inter decided not to install GPWS, therefore the aircraft flew into the terrain with virtually no warning. Of the 96 passengers, only 9 survived tragically.

Box 348

Jag XJ-S & SE-210 Caravelle (type12)

F-GMZA : Airbus A321-111 : Air Inter Europe

Taking French rugby fans home after the Scotland v. France international.

The name Air Inter Europe was used after Air Inter was merged into Groupe Air France in 1990. It was fully absorbed into Air France in 1997.

Del new to Air inter 11/80 scrapped 1999 at Chateauroux

scan of a slide in my collection and not my own shot...

Nantes Atlantique Airport, 25 October 1992. Scanned from my own slide.

Now preserved at Bordeaux.

Le premier vol du Mercure a lieu le 28 mai 1971 (Mérignac) et son premier vol commercial en juin 1974.

La fabrication de celui-ci, a été répartie entre l’Italie (Fiat) ; l’Espagne (CASA) ; la Belgique (ADAP) ; la Suisse (FW) et le Canada (CANADAIR) avec une maîtrise d’œuvre de Dassault un assemblage final dans les usines de Dassault à Mérignac.

On peut considérer la création et la construction de cet avion comme le premier programme européen d’aéronautique civile.

Un des objectif principal de ce programme : le marché américain en devenant le successeur du DC9.

Malheureusement l’avion n’a pas le succès commercial espéré.

Les causes principales :

-Le choc pétrolier

-La dévaluation du Dollar et un inflation en Europe favorisant les constructeurs américains

-La préférence des compagnies pour un avion court - moyen courrier, plus polyvalent

La consommation et le bruit de ses moteurs Pratt& Whitney JT8D15 le pénalise.

Le Mercure est équivalent à qu’un Boeing 737, mais, il est plus rapide.

Il est surnommé le « Chasseur d’Air Inter » car il a des caractéristiques de vol un peu vifs , héritage des programmes de chasseurs du constructeur Dassault (caractéristiques pas toujours appréciées des passagers.. )

Seul 11 exemplaires ce cet avions ont été construit .

Air Inter en a été la seule compagnie à l’utiliser (1974-1995)

Mais, elle en est satisfaite et décide même, en 1983, pour pouvoir récupérer un avion supplémentaire, de mettre le prototype N°2 en service après une mise au standard.

Le dernier vol commercial a lieu le 29 avril 1995 après 360000 heures de vol et 44 millions de passagers transportés et tout ceci ,sans accident et avec un régularité de service de 98%.

Originally del to Trans Canada CF-TGO in 5/55 sold on in 3/64 to Airinter F-BMCG. Later as G-BDRC operated with Alidair / Intra / Airways / Dan Air / Guernsey Airlines then Janus in 1984, ending her days at RAF Manston Fire Dept disposed of in 8/93.

On display at Midlands Air Museum, Coventry Airport, 20th July 2022.

August 25 2015; Tecknikmuseum Speyer

F-BTTJ Dassault Mercure 100 (10) Air Inter - Nice Côte d'Azur Airport , France 25-04-1990

Seen at the Musée Delta Athis Paray Aviation Orly in 2009:- Concorde 02 F-WTSA, later painted with British Airways colours, Air Inter Dassault Mercure F-BTTJ marked as "F-ARIT" on left side for "Association des Retraités d'Air Inter" and Caravelle 6N F-BVPZ with museum titles. Update:Now known forward fuselage of the Mercure went to Baarlo and the Caravelle is still on a circular pan used for fire service training.(Google Earth 2019 image).

Heathrow 4th June 1996.

scan of a slide in my collection and not my own shot...

TT-DFJ

Photo scanned from a slide

TARMAC of Aeroscopia crowned by the Concorde. On the right sight you have the first prototype of the A400M and in front of the Concorde you can see the historical Caravelle of Air Inter.

Aérospatiale-BAC Concorde

F-GVFC

Air France

(print scan) Taken at Edinburgh during the biennial airlift of French rugby fans for the International at Murrayfield, Air Inter A300B2 F-GBEA was originally new to Air France.