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    Airframe Family: Boeing B707 / C-135 / C-137 / C-18 / E-3 / E-6 / E-8
    Latest Model:707-348C
    Construction Number:19966
    Last Civil Registration:C5-MBM
    Compressed ID:Boeing 707-348C cn 19966 cr C5-MBM
    Latest Owner or Location:Mahfooz Aviation

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    Dates

    Event

    1968

    Constructed as a 707-348C.

    From 9 October 1968 to May 1980

    To Western Airlines Inc, Los Angeles, CA with new c/r N1504W.

    Circa 1975


    Photographer: EX/ZX Collection
    Notes: At Los Angeles International Airport, CA.

    15 May 1980

    To MEA-Middle East Airlines with new c/r OD-AGU.

    28 May 1980

    Civil registration, N1504W, cancelled.
    Exported to Lebanon.

    6 May 1989


    Photographer: Lewis Grant
    Notes: OD-AGU : Boeing 707-347C : Middle East Airlines - MEAs 707s turned up at some unusual airports in the UK in the summer of 1989, flying sub-charters for UK holiday airlines.

    12 July 1997

    Leased to Espace Aviation Services.

    12 April 1998

    To Mahfooz Aviation with new c/r C5-MBM.

    28 June 1998


    Photographer: John Tomlinson
    Notes: At Oostende-West Vlaanderen on 28 June 1998

    January 2000


    Photographer: Reinhard Zinabold
    Notes: C5-MBM - Boeing B-707-347C - Mahfooz Aviation - (operated in all-white colours without airline markings) - at Sharjah International Airport (SHJ) in January 2000

    19 June 2005

    Involved in an incident.
    The aircraft suffered an accident on landing at Addis Ababa-Bole Airport, Ethiopia.
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