First DC-8 visit to Schiphol. Registration on the tailfin seems to be N8068D. Several sources confirm this reg for c/n 45255, first flown on 25 March 1959 and delivered to Pan Am as N802PA in 1961. N8068D is lacking in the FAA database. Photo by: Harry Pot / Nationaal Archief (Netherlands)

The Empress of Mexico City departs with the number one thrust reverser locked closed. The Rolls Royce Conway ejectors, an assembly that contained the thrust reverser doors, served the dual purpose of reversing the engine thrust and noise suppression . They were usually extended below 10,000 feet and retracted above to streamline the nacelle aerodynamics.

Ex Iberia/Aviaco EC-ARC. Became N57AJ, C-GNDF, N3751X, N893AF, finally being broken up at Miami in July 1990.

Photographer: Al Rodriguez. K25 slide scan. Built 1962 as PH-DCO for KLM. Leased to Garuda 1972, reregistered PK-GEC 1974. Leased to ALM as PH-DCO 1978, sold to Gulfstream American as N121GA 1979 and stored at Mojave and Miami. Converted to freighter 1991 and delivered to ARCA Colombia 1992 as HK-3746X. Withdrawn Miami 1998 and scrapped 1999.

Photographer: Al Rodriguez. K25 slide scan. Delivered 1966 to Aeronaves de México, renamed Aeromexico 1972, stored 1987. F.B. Ayer 1989, FB Air N810GB 1990. Zuliana YV-599C 1992, reregistered YV-461C. Scrapped Opa Locka 1999.

Converted to a -62F in 1991. Later re-registered EC-GCY, to Arrow as N1808E in 1996 (photographer not known)

To N64799 October 1977, OB-R-1143 November 1978. Written off Mexico City 1st August 1980.

Deliverd December 22nd 1968 as YV-C-VIA to VIASA. October 1975 rr YV-125C, still VIASA. August 1986 YV.-125C bought by International Air Leases (IAL). October 1986 8P-PLC Caribbean Airways. April 15th 1987 TF-FLE Icelandair (leased from IAL). September 1987 subleased to Scanairas TF-FLE. May 9th 1988 TF-FLE back in Icelandair. Returned to IAL november 1988 and converted to freighter. March 1989 N7043U for Zambian Air Cargo, June 1986 for Arrow Air. January 1991 still N7043U Southern World Airlines until October 1991, then Arrow Air. November 1991 rr N345JW, wfu 2003 at KROW. Seen arrivng 24

operated by Continental Cargo Airlines - (photographer not known)

Photographer: Al Rodriguez. K25 slide scan. Built 1960 as N816PA for Pan American. Delta N8166A 1968. Charlotte Aircraft Corporation 1974, converted to freighter. Intercontinental Airways 1977, Michigan Peninsula May 1979, Rich International August 1979. Charlotte Aircraft Corporation 1984. TAAG Angola Airlines 1986, scrapped Luanda 1988. Had red cross markings applied for a relief mission.

Photographer: Al Rodriguez. K25 slide scan. Built 1960 as N814PA for Pan American. Delta N8148A 1968, retired January 1974. Converted to Freighter and operated by Intercontinental Airways late 70's/early 80's. Later stored at Charlotte Aircraft Corporation Facility at Maxton-Laurinburg, NC and finally scrapped in 2004.

Delivered to UTA as F-BLKX in 1965 then to the French Air Force as 45820 in 1966. To World Wide Chater Systems as C-FIWW in 1989, MK Airlines as 9G-MKF in 1995 then to Hewa Bora Airways as S9-PSD and reregistered as 9Q-CHL in 2007. Withdrawn from use at Kinshasa N'Djili around 2010. Still there in 2013. Later scrapped.

About to roll on runway 16.