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Date: 05/1979 Location: YVR/CYVR Photo: collection Skystef Description: Abelag Airways sole B707 seen being prepared at Vancouver, still with Canadian registration "C-FPWJ". The color scheme was based on Pacific Western Airlines, its previous operator.
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Date: 26/06/1979 Location: CDG/LFPG Photo: collection Skystef Description: it came in the Belgian register on May 16 1979 and was from June 13 1979 onwards briefly leased to UTA (of France) replacing a DC-10 which had an accident, here such depicted at Paris (CDG).
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Date: 14/07/1979 Location: OST/EBOS Photo: Pol Van Damme Description: here seen on a rare visit to Ostend.
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Date: 10/01/1981 Location: BRU/EBBR Photo: collection Skystef Description: reregistered "C-GRYO" on December 19 1979, it left for Hong Kong for a lease to Ontario Worldair where it was painted and entered service two weeks later. Due to financial difficulties, operations ceased on November 22 1980 and it was repossessed by Air Belgium the next day. It was ferried to Brussels in full Ontario markings on December 10 1980, came back in the register seven days later and remained stored till April 4 1981. Then it was operational in basic Ontario colors without titles till sold to Libya in July 1981.
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