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    Airframe Family: Douglas DC-8 / C-24
    Latest Model:DC-8-62CF
    Last Military Serial:371 FAPe
    Construction Number:45984
    Last Civil Registration:OB-1373
    Compressed ID:Douglas DC-8-62CF sn 371 FAPe cn 45...
    Latest Owner or Location:Fuerza Aerea del Peru

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    Dates

    Event

    1968

    Constructed as a DC-8-62CF.

    11 July 1968

    To Swissair with new c/r HB-IDH.

    August 1972


    Photographer: Carl Ford
    Notes: At London Heathrow Airport

    From 1976 to 1978

    Leased to Balair.

    12 May 1976


    Photographer: Lewis Grant
    Notes: At Glasgow Airport with soccer charter of French football fans - operated on lease by Balair

    December 1981

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Fuerza Aerea del Peru with s/n 371.

    To Fuerza Aerea del Peru with new c/r OB-1373.
    Operated with dual civil and military serials.

    November 1990


    Photographer: Eric Bannwarth
    Notes: At Miami International, Florida

    June 1997


    Photographer: Eric Bannwarth

    Permanently withdrawn from use.
    Stored at Lima - subsequently broken up.
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