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    Airframe Family: Douglas DC-8 / C-24
    Latest Model:DC-8-71CF
    Construction Number:45902
    Last Civil Registration:N702UP
    Compressed ID:Douglas DC-8-71CF cn 45902 cr N702U...
    Latest Owner or Location:Aersale Inc, Coral Gables, FL

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    Dates

    Event

    1967

    Constructed as a DC-8-61CF.

    16 June 1967

    To TIA-Trans International Airlines with new c/r N8961T.

    4 June 1971

    To Universal Airlines keeping c/r N8961T.

    17 September 1971

    To TIA-Trans International Airlines keeping c/r N8961T.

    12 November 1971

    To Saber Air with new c/r 9V-BEH.

    By April 1972

    To TIA-Trans International Airlines with new c/r N8961T.

    June 1972


    Photographer: Carl Ford
    Notes: DC-8-61CF N8961T - Trans International at London Gatwick in June 1972.

    21 October 1974

    To Nordair with new c/r C-GNDA.

    1975


    Photographer: EX/ZX Collection
    Notes: At Shannon Airport

    From October 1977 to November 1978

    A number of very short leases to Libyan Arab Airlines, Air Afrique and Royal Air Maroc.

    6 December 1978

    To Evergreen Airlines with new c/r N810EV.

    21 December 1978

    Certificate of airworthiness for N702UP (DC-8-71F, 45902) issued.

    1982


    Photographer: Reinhard Zinabold
    Notes: N810EV - McDonnell Douglas DC-8-61CF - Overseas National Airways / PIA (Pakistan International Airlines) (leased from Evergreen International Airlines) at Marana Pinal Air Park (MZJ) in 1982

    Leased to Libyan Arab Airlines.

    June 1985

    To United Parcel Service with new c/r N702UP.

    Converted to a DC-8-71CF.

    12 April 1999


    Photographer: Reinhard Jost
    Notes: N702UP of United Parcel Service on the UPS ramp at New Yorks JFK-airport.

    2009

    Permanently withdrawn from use.
    At Roswell, New Mexico.

    From 7 July 2010 to 8 January 2018

    To Aersale Inc, Coral Gables, FL keeping c/r N702UP.

    8 January 2018

    Civil registration, N702UP, cancelled.
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