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    Airframe Family: Douglas DC-8 / C-24
    Latest Model:DC-8-62H
    Construction Number:46071
    Last Civil Registration:5V-TGF
    Compressed ID:Douglas DC-8-62H cn 46071 cr 5V-TGF...
    Latest Owner or Location:Base de Transport de Lome, Togo-Presidential aircraft

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    Dates

    Event

    1969

    Constructed as a DC-8-62H.

    28 July 1969

    To United Airlines with new c/r N8970U.


    Photographer: EX/ZX Collection
    Notes: At New York - JFK Airport

    From 30 January 1982 to 15 August 1984

    Leased to Arrow Air.

    Circa 1984


    Photographer: EX/ZX Collection
    Notes: At Pinal Air Park, Marana, Arizona

    January 1985

    Leased to Hawaiian Airlines.

    8 October 1989


    Photographer: Lewis Grant
    Notes: At Glasgow, Scotland

    8 May 1991

    To Sante Fe Aviation Inc, Los Angeles, CA keeping c/r N8970U.
    Operated for Australian Consolidated Press.

    16 October 1991

    Civil registration, N8970U, cancelled.

    17 October 1991

    To Consolidated Press Holdings with new c/r VR-BMR.

    August 1992

    To Consolidated Press Holdings with new c/r VR-BLG.

    4 June 1997

    To Consolidated Press Holdings with new c/r VP-BLG.

    19 September 2001

    To Benin Government-Presidential aircraft with new c/r P4-DCE.

    May 2003


    Photographer: Reinhard Zinab
    Notes: P4-DCE - McDonnell Douglas DC-8-62H - Jetline Inc. (operating for Benin Government - Presidential aircraft) at Muenchen-FJS Airport (MUC)

    17 October 2006

    To Base de Transport de Lome, Togo-Presidential aircraft with new c/r 5V-TGF.

    8 December 2007


    Photographer: David Chapman
    Notes: At Lisbon, Portugal

    Circa 2012

    Permanently withdrawn from use.
    Stored at Niamtougou International Airport, Togo.
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