Photographer: Al Rodriguez. K25 slide scan. Delivered 1979, withdrawn Ezeiza 2006, scrapped 2015.

Delivered to Aerolineas Argentinas October 26, 1979, this classic 747 was retired and stored at Ezeiza International Airport, Buenos Aires in 2007. The aircraft was scrapped in 2015 with the nose section acquired by Asociación de Técnicos de Vuelo de Líneas Aéreas (ATVLA) , one of Argentina's aeronautical unions. The nose was moved by road to nearby Lujan where it remains at the time of uploading.

Delivered new 26th Oct 1979 and withdrawn from use SAEZ (Ezeiza) June 2006, scrapped

Delivered in 1979. Scrapped at Buenos Aires-Ezeiza in 2015.

Former Aerolíneas Argentinas LV-MLR. Entered service on October 1979. WFU June 2006. Years later it was chopped up and the nose section was sent to the Asociación de Técnicos de Vuelo de Líneas Aéreas (ATVLA) in Luján, Buenos Aires province. Rest of the plane was scrapped.

AR 50 Years sticker

Pictured taxying to its assigned gate after arriving on the long flight from Buenos Aires.

Certainly a much nicer c/s than any of the variants that succeeded it.