K25 slide scan. Delivered 1982, flown to Tozeur, Tunisia 1991 for safekeeping. ATC had advised Traffic Department of the unannounced impending arrival of a 747 on a training sortie. It turned out to be nothing less than Saddam Hussein's SP on a technical check flight after heavy maintenance with Lufthansa Technik at Hamburg. After a couple of touch and gos the aircraft came in for a full stop enabling an almost perfect roster shot to be taken.

K25 slide scan. Delivered 1982, flown to Tozeur, Tunisia 1991 for safekeeping. ATC had advised Traffic Department of the unannounced impending arrival of a 747 on a training sortie. It turned out to be nothing less than Saddam Hussein's SP on a technical check flight after heavy maintenance with Lufthansa Technik at Hamburg.

Just over a year old at this time and probably staging on to the USA with Saddam Hussein for further talks about the Iran-Iraq war, the presidential SP was positioned to Tozeur in Tunisia prior to the first Gulf War in 1990 for safe keeping. It remains there to this day, all white and maintained by Iraqi mechanics every six months. By 11.10 was up for sale by Iraqi Airways