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    Airframe Family: Douglas DC-8 / C-24
    Latest Model:DC-8-63F
    Construction Number:46121
    Last Civil Registration:9G-FAB
    Compressed ID:Douglas DC-8-63F cn 46121 cr 9G-FAB...
    Latest Owner or Location:Johnsons Air

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    Dates

    Event

    1969

    Constructed as a DC-8-63.

    25 November 1969

    To KLM-Royal Dutch Airlines with new c/r PH-DEK.

    Circa 1971


    Photographer: EX/ZX Collection

    From May 1972 to May 1975

    Leased to Phillipine Airlines.

    1974


    Photographer: EX/ZX Collection

    From May 1975 to 1982

    To KLM-Royal Dutch Airlines keeping c/r PH-DEK.

    1 March 1982

    Leased to African Safari Airways.

    4 April 1984

    To Icelandair with new c/r TF-FLV.

    January 1988


    Photographer: Reinhard Zinabold
    Notes: TF-FLV - McDonnell Douglas DC-8-63 - Icelandair at Salzburg Airport (SZB) in January 1988

    Converted to a DC-8-63F.

    31 May 1990

    To Aer Turas Teoranta with new c/r EI-CAK.

    March 1994


    Photographer: Carl Ford
    Notes: At Dublin Airport

    July 1994

    To Air Transport International with new c/r N786AL.

    5 September 1994

    Certificate of airworthiness for N786AL (DC-8-63, 46121) issued.

    28 May 1995


    Photographer: Carl Ford
    Notes: Mcdonnell Douglas DC-8-63 N786AL - Air Transport International. at Birmingham on 28th May 1995.

    From 2 June 2004 to 27 July 2004

    To Race Aviation Corp, Miami, FL keeping c/r N786AL.

    27 July 2004

    To Johnsons Air with new c/r 9G-FAB.

    27 July 2004

    Civil registration, N786AL, cancelled.
    Exported to Ghana.

    Permanently withdrawn from use.
    And subsequently broken up at Ras Al Khaimah International Airport, UAE.
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