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    Airframe Family: Douglas DC-8 / C-24
    Latest Model:DC-8-71CF
    Construction Number:45950
    Last Civil Registration:N750UP
    Compressed ID:Douglas DC-8-71CF cn 45950 cr N750U...
    Latest Owner or Location:AerSale

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    Dates

    Event

    1968

    Constructed as a DC-8-61F.

    From 26 April 1968 to 1 May 1972

    To Universal Airlines with new c/r N802U.

    From 26 April 1968 to 30 September 1968

    Leased to Capitol International Airways.

    7 August 1971


    Photographer: Urs Baettig
    Notes: At Frankfurt International, Germany

    From 1 May 1972 to 26 April 1975

    To Overseas National Airways with new c/r N868F.

    14 June 1976


    Photographer: Carl Ford
    Notes: Douglas DC-8-61CF N868F - Overseas National Airways at Shanno

    21 December 1977

    To Flying Tigers with new c/r N868FT.

    From 15 October 1985 to 2010

    To United Parcel Service Co, Louisville, KY with new c/r N750UP.

    Converted to a DC-8-71CF.

    April 1992


    Photographer: Keith Burton
    Notes: N750UP Douglas DC-8-71CF United Parcel Service at San Juan Puerto Rico

    28 January 2010

    To AerSale keeping c/r N750UP.

    Permanently withdrawn from use.
    And broken up at Roswell, New Mexico.
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