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N144AA / 47848 was deliver to Air New Zealand as ZK-NZN in January 1974 after serving with Air New Zealand for four years and having a short lease to Malaysian Airlines in this time she was retired from use. ZK-NZN was then reregistered as N821L and was sold to International Lease Finance Corporation ILFC in April 1981 and flew with Western Airlines until September 1983 when joining Air Pacific until December 1984 when she was retired. In January 1985 N821L was purchased by American Airlines and was reregistered as N144AA a month later. After fifteen years of service with American Airlines N144AA was withdrawn from use and stored at Mojave California in December 2000 only to be sold to Telesis Technologies LLC in April 2002.
N1805 / 45899 was destined for Pan American Grace but the option of this airframe was not taken up and was delivered to Braniff on September 29 1967 In 1972 and advertising executive George Gordon had an idea to paint a real size aircraft and as a tribute to Alexander Calder and his mobiles and was asked to undertake this work. George Gordon flew to Sache in France with a model aircraft and over lunch he approached Calder and asked if he would paint a plane? The reply was that he did not paint toys and then it was explained that this would be a real size aircraft. Calder agreed to this and was introduced to Harding Lawrence in 1972 and then the relationship between Braniff and Calder was formed until his untimely death in 1976. N1805 was one of two aircraft which Calder painted with a third planned which was never finished. The DC-8-62 flew with two different designs of engines this model representing the first design. The original model from Inflight had the engines painted when Calder repainted to engines at the Paris Air Show in 1975.
N17321 / 18825 was destined t be with Pan American World Airways as N798PA but the option was not taken up and the airframe was then delivered to Continental Airlines as N17321 in August 1964 where she flew until May 1973 when sold to China Airlines and was reregistered as B-1832. In June 1985 B-1832 was purchased by Allen Aircraft Corporation in June 1985 and was registered N987AA in February 1986 GAS Air Nigeria purchased the aircraft and then leased the aircraft to Dairo Air Services. Still being leased by Dairo Air Services the aircraft was sold to Equator Leasing Inc in January 1988 but was unfortunately lost in November 1992 in Kenya.
HB-IIQ / 30752 started life as N1786B and was reregistered as N1026G and was delivered to Boeing Business Jets on December 21 1999 and was reregistered from N1026G to HB-IIQ. On the same day this aircraft was then purchased by Matela Offshore Leasing and was then immediately leased by Private Air. Iyt was then subleased to Lufthansa in June 2002 and then to Gulf Air in 2010.
YU-AKE / 21037 was delivered to Jugoslovenski Aerotransport JAT in December 1974 and was leased to Air Commerce from December 1991 and was returned to JAT in January 1992. In May of this year it was leased to Genius Air and again was returned to JAT in August 1992 only to be withdrawn from JAT service in the year 2000
YU-AKJ / 22394 started with Boeing as NN8281V and was delivered to Jugoslovenski Aerotransport JAT on December 15th 1980 and served with JAT until she was withdrawn from use and stored in 2000.
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