Aircraft Photo of PH-DEC | McDonnell Douglas DC-8-63 | KLM - Royal Dutch Airlines | AirHistory.net #615694
Aircraft
Registration / Serial:PH-DEC
Aircraft Original Type:Douglas DC-8
Aircraft Generic Type:McDonnell Douglas DC-8
Aircraft Version:McDonnell Douglas DC-8-63
C/n (msn):45999 / 377
Operator Titles:KLM - Royal Dutch Airlines
Aircraft Name:Marco Polo
Location
City / Airport:London - HeathrowMap
Region / Country:England, United Kingdom
Airport Codes:ICAO: EGLL   IATA: LHR   Local: -   Other: -
 
Photo Date:4 April 1980
Photo by:Paul Seymour
Photo ID: 615694
Photo Comment

Delivered to KLM as PH-DEC in 1968. To Icelandair as TF-FLU in 1984 then to Trans Continental Airlines as N820TC in 1989. Converted to a freighter then to Southern World Airlines as N863E and to American International Airlines in 1991. Reregistered as N787AL then to Air Transport International in 1992. Reregistered as N788AL in 1994. To Airborne Express and reregistered as N828AX in 1997. They were renamed to ABX Air in 2003. To Meridian Airways as 9G-AXC in 2009. Grounded at Accra in 2013 by the Ghana CAA and scrapped in 2015.

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