A regular visitor to Europe in the early 1970s. Converted from Convair 340 N270E in 1963 while owned by Englehard Industries. Re-registered N278E in July 1967 and sold soon afterwards, operating for various companies becoming N331G in November 1967. Leased and later bought by Forbes and registered as N60FM in May 1970, flying as such until replaced by a DC9 in 1973. Later registered as N8500 and N30EG, the aircraft spent time with the Mid Atlantic Air Museum at Reading PA. before being sold in Canada as C-GSKJ for conversion to an airtanker. It crashed at La Ronge, Saskatchewan in May 2006.

Delivered August 1967 to Braniff as N7294. In Forbes Magazine with registration N60FM from Jun 1983 to Jan 1996.

slide taken by the late Norbert Kröpfl. - This old DC-9 flew for Swissair and Dominicana before being converted into an executive airliner. It flew as such for about 35 years for various owners; after a period of storage at San Antonio TX it was finally ferried to Saltillo in 2018, where it was used as a source of spares for the cargo DC-9's of Aeronaves TSM. Last reg was N120NE.

Forbes Magazine had successively a Convair 580, this DC-9 and a Boeing 727 all registered N60FM and painted gold.Their DC-9 is on top of the entrance to Heathrow's Cargo tunnel with Air India's Maintenance building visible behind

Seen departing DCA, this Forbes Magazine 727 was originally Braniff's N7294. Later regns include N766JS.