Delivered to Lufthansa as D-ABKI in February 1973 where it served until going to Okada Air in January 1993 as 5N-NEC. Safair bought the 727 in November 1995 and it remained on South African register until retired nine years later. In that period it was leased to both Sun Air and Comair as well as operating for the United Nations.

Sun Air was an airline with multiple identities - first established as Mafikeng Air Service in 1978, renamed Mmabatho Air Service the following year, then Bop Air in 1986, serving as the "national" airline of the South African bantustan of Bophuthatswana. Finally in post-apartheid South Africa it became Sun Air and was liquidated in 1999

Ex British Midland G-BMAK, registered 3rd Jan 1995 and transferred to 1Time Aero Feb 2004