El Al Cargo, but only for those who knew.

Ex N8289V, registered 21st June 1977 and sold as HK-2400X 21st July 1981

Delivered to Korean Air in April 1981 as HL7458. Converted to cargo by May 1992. To UT Finance corporation in July 2002 as N285SW. To Air Freight Express in November 2002. Reregistered VP-BRS that same month. Back to UT Finance Corporation in January 2003 as N285Sw. to CAL Cargo Air Lines in June 2003 as 4X-ICN. To El Al in December 2004 as 4X-AXM. Stored at Tel Aviv in 2009. Preserved at Tel Aviv in 2010 as fire training frame. The tail fin broke off during a storm in January 2017. Broken up in Tel Aviv in 2021.

Delivered to Korean Air in April 1981 as HL7458. Converted to cargo by May 1992. To UT Finance corporation in July 2002 as N285SW. To Air Freight Express in November 2002. Reregistered VP-BRS that same month. Back to UT Finance Corporation in January 2003 as N285Sw. to CAL Cargo Air Lines in June 2003 as 4X-ICN. To El Al in December 2004 as 4X-AXM. Stored at Tel Aviv in 2009. Preserved at Tel Aviv in 2010 as fire training frame. The tail fin broke off during a storm in January 2017. Broken up in Tel Aviv in 2021.

This 747 was originally delivered to Korean in April 1981 but subsequently converted to a freighter and operated by their cargo division from May 1992. From November 2002 it flew with Air Freight Express for a few months as N285SW & VP-BRS before storage at Goodyear (GYR). It was rescued from the desert in July 2003 by Cargo Air Lines and registered (nicely!) 4X-ICN before transferring over to El Al in November 2004. The plane was withdrawn in November 2009 and used as a fire trainer at Tel Aviv (TLV). After the tail was torn off in a storm the hulk was scrapped.

Almost untitled; the name ElAl appears on the nosewheel door only.

Crashed october 4th, 1992 into a flat in the Amsterdam subrurb Bijlmermeer after losing ( dropping off) engine # 3 and 4.

Fitted with a rear cargo door.

Touchdown on rw27L. Note the slight lag in application of the thrust reversers.

El Al and CAL freighters were still common at AMS in the first decade of the 21st century. Delivered as a passenger plane in 1979, 4X-AXH spent most of her service life hauling cargo. She went to a small Russian company in 2006 but was stored at LUX in 2008 and eventually scrapped there in July 2014.

This aircraft crashed into an apartment building in the suburbs of Amsterdam, Netherlands, on October 4 1992, after losing two engines shortly after take off. The four crew and 47 people on the ground were killed.