Delivered to Flying Tiger Line as DC-8-63AF N784FT in 1968. Converted to a DC-8-73AF in 1982. To United Parcel Service as N804UP in 1983. Withdrawn from use at Roswell, NM in 2003 and later scrapped.

Departing Rwy 18 late in the evening.

shortly before sunset

Originally a DC-8-63 with Flying Tigers (N790FT) from 1969, the freighter was leased to Air India for almost a year (1982 - 1983). Flying Tigers sold and leased it back from Cammacorp during Air India's lease. Cammacorp took the aircraft back in July 1984 and converted it to a DC-8-73 for lease to German Cargo / Lufthansa Cargo 1984 - 1997 (D-ADUE), Next it flew with Emery Worldwide Airlines and Air Transport International (N606AL) until stored at Mojave, CA in 2012. Leased to Ribway Cargo Airlines in 2014 as 5Y-RCA, the aircraft was flown to Wilmington on delivery, but was still there by June 2020.

Delivered new ( as a DC-8-63) 4th Feb 1970 and converted to freighter Apr 1981. Re-engined to become a series 73(F) Aug 1984 and became N803DH with DHL 8th March 1994

As coincidences go this was taken the day before Fergal Goodman photographed it departing (photo ID 75435).

Owned by SkyBus Air Cargo Inc. (Los Angeles, CA) and still registered to them by Nov 2021.

Delivered to Air Canada in 1969. Converted to a freighter and re-engined. Subsequently to DHL in 1993 as N802DH. WFU and stored at Kingman in 2011.

Originally N786FT with Flying Tiger Line. Retired by UPS Feb 2009.