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Airbus Industrie A300B1 (2)

 

Date: 1974

Location: ORY/LFPO

Photo: collection Skystef

Description: the first A300 for TEA became operational on November 25 1974 but was immediate leased to Air Algerie in their full (old) markings.

 
Date: 28/04/1975

Location: BRU/EBBR

Photo: collection Skystef

Description: after this lease, it arrived on February 3 1975 at Brussels in their full livery (after a respray at Toulouse), here depicted such a couple of months later. It flew one of its first services for TEA to Rome (CIA) on February 15. It was baptized "Aline" (just like OO-TEA) after the wife's name of Gutelman, founder of TEA, but on this picture this name does not appear yet.

 
Date: 10/1980

Location: ORY/LFPO

Photo: Christian Volpati

Description: on a second lease to Air Algerie, this time between September 20 1980 and December 10 1980, only small additional "Air Algerie" titles were applied.

 
Date: 10/1985

Location: BRU/EBBR

Photo: Paul Van Zande

Description: seen with baptized name "Aline".

Date: 07/1989

Location: BRU/EBBR

Photo: collection Skystef

Description: second and final livery adopted in 1988, it served the airline till November 17 1990 making a local farewell flight a week later on November 25 having a TT of 31028 hrs.  .

 
Date: 04/1991

Location: BRU/EBBR

Photo: Paul Sanders

Description: taken six months after part out and carrying some additional titles which are zoomed on the picture below.

 
Date: 04/1991

Location: BRU/EBBR

Photo: Paul Sanders

Description: detail of some important milestones for this airframe.

 
Date: 20/06/1993

Location: BRU/EBBR

Photo: Skystef

Description: after almost three years of storage.

 
Date: 08/2001

Location: BRU/EBBR

Photo: collection Skystef

Description: after almost eleven years of storage and being used for fire practice since September 29 1994.

 
Date: 07/2002

Location: BRU/EBBR

Photo: Skystef

Description: left hand side. It was completely broken up on July 9 2003.

 

 

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