London Gatwick Airport (LGW)
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Seen about to depart Gatwick's Runway 08. This particular 767 went on to join the Air Canada Rouge fleet and is currently sat stored at Marana, USA..
Taxiing at Gatwick in summer 1976, not long after addition to the Dan-Air fleet. This former Air Pacific aircraft left Dan-Air service in October 1989, having been sold to Springer Airlines in Canada as C-FKTL. It was destroyed on 14 August 1991 when it caught fire at Big Trout Airport, Ontario while unloading a cargo of fuel.
Scan of a Kodachrome slide from my collection.
On final approach to runway 26 at Gatwick. Operating the weekly Cubana service from Havana. 14th December 1996.
LX-TLB DC-8-62F Cargo Lion
ex Swissair HB-IDG, to Capitol in September 1983, Nationair in July 1985, PLUNA in October 1991, to Buffalo Airways in October 1992 and converted to a freighter. With Cargo Lion between April 1995 and March 2001. Scrapped at Manston around 2006.
(scan from my collection - not taken by myself)
G-HEVY. Gatwick 8th April 1995. Originally delivered to Continental Airlines in December 1966.Then flew with Varig from 1973 to 1990. Had left the Heavylift fleet by March 1996.