SkyStef's aviation page
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SkyStef's aviation page |
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04/1975 Location: ANR/EBAW Photo: E. Campers via collection Skystef Description: as replacement for its lost DC-6 "OO-VGB", the eight DC-6 airframe for Delta Air Transport was delivered at Antwerp on April 17 1975 as "F-BOEV" still in the basic blue livery of previous French operator T.A.R.. |
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24/04/1975 Location: ANR/EBAW Photo: collection Skystef Description: a few days later the airframe was resprayed in the new scaled down livery of DAT being the first of two color schemes carried by this metalbird when operational by the Belgian company. Here still seen without the tail logo and also carrying the French registration. |
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25/04/1975 Location: ANR/EBAW Photo: collection Skystef Description: seen in the hangar after having obtained the tail logo. |
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28/05/1975 Location: ANR/EBAW Photo: collection Skystef Description: on April 24 1975 it officially entered the Belgian register, the last two letters of the regi referring to Frederique Guinotte of its owner Compagnie Maritime Belge (CMB). On April 26 it made its first commercial flight, here seen in its full outfit of that era with white registration. |
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14/03/1976 Location: ANR/EBAW Photo: collection Skystef Description: seen with black registration. |
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1976 Location: BRU/EBBR Photo: collection Skystef Description: taking off gracefully on a charter flight. |
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04/07/1977 Location: ANR/EBAW Photo: collection Skystef Description: captured in the second color scheme. |
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1977 Location: ANR/EBAW Photo: collection Skystef Description: seen just before a charter flight with loads of pax boarding it. |
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03/1978 Location: ANR/EBAW Photo: collection Skystef Description: via a local broker 'Korastinsky' it was on February 3 1978 cancelled to the States as "N9383A" for onward sale to a Spanish operator and it was the final Delta Air Transport DC-6 leaving the Belgian register. Here captured without titles (and without visible registration). |
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08/04/1978 Location: ANR/EBAW Photo: collection Skystef Description: one day before its departure, view of the cabin. |
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08/04/1978 Location: ANR/EBAW Photo: collection Skystef Description: one day before its departure, view of the cockpit. |
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09/04/1978 Location: ANR/EBAW Photo: collection Skystef Description: with its American registration, depicted on take off on its ferry flight to Alicante heading for its new operator Aerotransport de Espana where it would become "EC-DCK". |