SkyStef's aviation page
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SkyStef's aviation page |
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1973 Location: - Photo: collection Skystef Description: an ad published in Sabena's timetable of November 1973 making a proud anouncement of the introduction of the first DC10 on its network with on the picture the real "OO-SLA". |
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1973 Location: - Photo: collection Skystef Description: Sabena's timetable of November 1973 making an anouncement of the introduction of the first DC10 on its run to New York as flight SN541 / 2 or SN547 / 8 (alternating with its B747) on November 1 1973, but ultimate it was postponed (see below). |
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1973 Location: - Photo: collection Skystef Description: the first Douglas jet airframe for Sabena arrived at Brussels on September 22 1973. After months of storage (pilot salary dispute) it went operational to Heathrow from March 22 1974 onwards (for crew training) and was on the Tokyo run (via Anchorage) from April 5 onwards. Here captured on a promo flight in its first livery. |
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23/08/1974 Location: BRU/EBBR Photo: collection Skystef Description: on landing at its home base. |
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06/1984 Location: BRU/EBBR Photo: collection Skystef Description: parked at its home base, still in the first colors. |
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06/1985 Location: BRU/EBBR Photo: collection Skystef Description: second (and for Sabena the airframes final) livery which was adopted mid eighties. In 1983 it was converted into full pax configuration. Here depicted with the white regi in the cheatline which was later revised (see below). |
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28/12/1992 Location: BRU/EBBR Photo: Skystef Description: black regi put below the cheatline. |
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06/1987 Location: MEL/YMML Photo: collection Skystef Description: after a lease to JAT between June 15 - October 31 1986 in the Sabena livery, it was again leased to JAT between June 12 1987 and October 23 1989 this time in their full colors. |
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10/1989 Location: DXB/OMDB Photo: collection Skystef Description: other side. |
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12/1989 Location: LHR/EGLL Photo: collection Skystef Description: after this lease it was repainted at Brussels in basic Sabena colors with "Zambia Airways" titles and tail logo, for an immediate lease to this African carrier which took place between November 16 1989 and January 27 1990 and again between February 10 and March 20 1990. On October 30 1994 its final commercial flight was made on behalf of Sabena. |
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11/1994 Location: CDG/LFPG Photo: collection Skystef Description: after been painted neutral it left for Paris (Charles de Gaule airport) on November 2 1994 for maintenance, here seen such. Later that month on the 26th it was ferried to Amsterdam and there repainted in the livery of World Airways. The airframe left the Belgian register on December 6 1994 migrating afterwards to the American one as "N116WA". |
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12/1994 Location: MIA/KMIA Photo: collection Skystef Description: here seen such as cargo airframe with on the engines still the "Sabena" titles (see also bottom right). |