AIRLINES & AIRLINERS at LOUIS BLERIOT TERMINAL

AIRLINES & AIRLINERS at LOUIS BLERIOT TERMINAL

AIR BALTIC

Air Baltic is represented by its FOKKER F50  YL-BAT

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Aeroclassic 1/400

Delivered to Air Baltic in June 99.

This aircraft effected its first flight on September 6.1989.She was delivered to SAS as
"SIGVAT VIKING" OY-KAF on  09-15-1989.

She was damaged less than 2 months after her delivery when the gear collapsed when parked.

She operates now with Air Panama as HP-1794PST

AIR DOLOMITI 

Air Dolomiti is represented by its Bae 146-300 I- ADJF.

Herpa Model 1/500  

The aircrafy fits flew on July 5, 1991 and was subsequently delivered to Dan Air London as G-BUHC , was leased to Palmair Flight line and KLM UK  and operated by Aer Lingus EI-CTO Santa-Clara before going to Air Dolomiti and being subsequently leased to Astra Airlines as SX-DIX  by TRIDENT leasing company (from May 2009)

More on Air Dolomiti's Bae 146-300

AIR FRANCE

SN210 CARAVELLE 

F-BHRB-"LORRAINE"Herpa model 1/500
The frame was delivered on om March 19,1959 and after 18 years of services was withdrawn from sercice in December 1977.
More on F-BHRB at this link F-BHRB AIR FRANCE - LOUIS BLERIOT terminal

More on the operations of Air France's Caravelle at AIR FRANCE 1959 Caravelle operations 





BOEING 707 AEROCLASSICS 1/400

F-BHSV  was a Boeing 707-328B  which first flew on December 3, 1962 and delivered to Air France as Chateau de Vincennes on December 15, 1962  was sold to Air Xports in 1984 after being leased to El Al between July and November 1983.The aircraft was broken up at Brussels Airport in November 1989

ERJ170-100STD

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Delivered to Regional Compagnie Aerienne  and transferred to HOP on March 31.2013

 ALITALIA

SN 210 CARAVELLE VIN-Herpa 1/500


I-DABM (Procione) cn143, delivered to Alitalia on May 27, 1964 and according to Rzjets keased to SAM in 1969 and from 1974 to 1976. Retired in 1977 and stored at FCO .Withdrawn from use in 1978 and transferred ti VCEShe had been seen derelict in Ceolini in Italy.
Procione  means Raccoon in English is a medium-sized mammal native to North America. The raccoon is the largest of the procyonid family, 

SN 210 CARAVELLE VIN-Inflight 1/500


I-DAXU (Canopo)  cn79, frst flew on June 2, 1961 delivered to Alitalia on June  9, 1961 and according to Rzjets keased to SAM in 1969 and from 1974 to 1976. Retired On Juy 1 1975 and stored at FCO .Withdrawn from use in 1978 and transferred ti VCEShe had been seen derelict in Ceolini in Italy
The airline was named after Canopus is the brightest star in the southern constellation of Carina, and is located near the western edge of the constellation around 310 light-years from the Sun. Its proper name is generally considered to originate from the mythological Canopus, who was a navigator for Menelaus, king of Sparta.

AUSTRIAN AIRLINES-MD87

HERPA 1/500
OE-LMN "Klagenfurt"
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Klagenfurt  is the capital of the federal state of Carinthia in Austria. With a population of 101,403 (1 January 2020), it is the sixth-largest city in the country. The city is the bishop's seat of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Gurk-Klagenfurt and home to the University of Klagenfurt, the Carinthian University of Applied Sciences and the Gustav Mahler University of Music.

First flight on February 16,1990 and delivered on March 15.1990. Stayed with AUA until 2005 when she took N167AS registration its new owner Aircraft & Engine support . Stored at RFD airport and she is owned byRubloff MD87-936 llc

BKS AIR TRANSPORT

 

BRISTOL 175-102 BRITANNIA

G-ANBH

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Delivered to BOAC on 28/8/1957 and later sold to  Britannia Airways

Delivered to BKS Air Transport on 30/9/1965. Withdrawn from use in 1968 and broken-up in Southend  in September 1969

 

 




BRITISH CALEDONIAN 

BCAL BAC111-500

HERPA model 1/500

More information can be found by following this link BCAL BAC 111-500

BRITISH MIDDLAND

DOUGLAS C47-B-10-DK

Aeroclassic 1/400

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G-ANTD

Saw services with the USAF and then the RAF. The civilian version was first  operated by Derby arways , the predecessor of BMA. She finished her life with Air Anglia  which operated the type until 1973. The ships has been unfortunately broken up

 

BRITISH OVERSEAS AIRWAYS CORPORATION

B707-336 G-ATWV

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Aeroclassic 1/400

First  flight on November 8, 1967 and was delivered to B.O.A.C  on the 30th of November . After 15 years of services  (the last ones being as cargo jet),she was  sold to  West African Cargo Airlines as 9G-ACX.

sold in April 1986  to Aviation Consultants International and took up N14Z registration

Leased to Santa Lucia Airways June 1986

Leased to Caribbean  Air Transport April 1987

Sold to Seagreen Air Transport  in October 1987

Leased to Santa Lucia Airways

Leased to Grecoair of El Paso  on 31/7/1990

Leased to Royal Jordanian  in  November 1991 and to Kuwait Airways in august 16, 1992.

She saw last services with Aero Zambia as 5Y-BNJ and is stranded  in South Africa over alleged  illicit weapon trading charges to the UNITA front . The aircraft was operated by Grecoair under the colors o f Aero Zambia . This incident led to the suspension of Aero Zambia's AOC.

FINNAIR

SN210 CARAVELLE

Aeroclassic 1/400
OH-LEA - SINTULU -BLUE BIRD .The Aircraft was delivered in April 1960 afetr being converted from the original model 1A. The Aircrafy went through a number of owners :
D-ABAF as LTU International Airways (August 1964)
TRANSAVIA as PH-TRM
Air Inter bought the frame which was delivered to the company in March 1971.
Went to ALTAIR Linee Iraliane as I-GISA and ended its life with Air Transport Service - Congo when she joined the comany in October 1986.
Broken-up in Kinshasa

 
DC8-62CF

Aeroclassic 1/400

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Delivered to FINNAIR as OH-LFR " Paavo Nurmi "on January 27,1969 and changed registration to OH-LFT  in April 1969

Sold to French Air Force in June 1982 (F-RAFG)

Sold to Air Transport International  to 27/06/2005 with a new registration N721CX  and was converted to a  DC8-72F.  Stored in Wilmington Ohio on December 18.2013

Saw again service with Skybus Jet cargo and Transpacific Heavylift  until l sold to Samaritan's Purse on 27/05/2015. The aircraft is operated by Elan Express on behalf of Samaritan's Purse and carries the registration N782SP

JAT

SUD-SE210 CARAVELLE VIN-YU-AHE (Herpa 1/500)

The aircraft was delivered fresh from the factory on July 10.1965 and stayed with the comany until its retirement from service on June 1975. The Caravelle was the first jet plane delivered to JAT and was used extensively on ots short and medium range routes.

BOEING 707-351C YU-AGJ (Aeroclassics 1/400)

The plane witnessed a lot of owners starting with Northwest Orient Airlines . First flown on 23/11/1966 and delivered to the company on 06/12/1966as N371US She was sold to JAT in April 1974 . Leased to Nigeria Airways from September to November 1980. She stayed with the company until June 1987 , the day she was sold to Florida West Airlines as N 740FW. Leased By Florida West Airlines to Millon Air from May1991 to June 1992 N851MA. Union Bank repossessed the airlines in July 1993 and was subsequently sold to Willian Seidle in October 1993. Uganda's Jet Aviation bought the plane in December 1993 and registered it as  5X-JET




By Bob Adams from George, South Africa - DAS Air Cargo B707-351C 5X-JET, CC BY-SA 2.0, Link


and leased to DAS Air Service in January 1994. The Aircrft remained with the airline until sold to Cargo Plus Aviation on october 2002 carrying an Equatorial Guinea registration 3C-QRO. Its last owner was Congo Airlines  from the Democratic republic of Congo as 9Q-CKR which  acquired the plane in June 2004 and was withdrawn from use .

The real YU-AGJ


By Felix Goetting - Gallery page http://www.airliners.net/photo/JAT---Yugoslav/Boeing-707-351C/0808890/L Photo http://cdn-www.airliners.net/aviation-photos/photos/0/9/8/0808890.jpg, GFDL 1.2, Link

KLM

Vickers Viscount 803

The Aircraft first flew on June 24,1957 and was delivered 2 days later as PH-VIB  Louis Bleriot to KLM . The company will use the frame until 1966 when it  will be sold to AER LINGUS as EI-AOJ Saint Flannan . The plane's acerreer with Aer Lingus will last until October 1970 abd will be withdrawn from Use and broken up in Dublin in 1973

More on PH-VIB at the link below


KLM : Tribute to the Vickers Visccount-1957-1967

 FOKKER F70

The Aircraft first flew on June 22,1995 and was delivered 6 days later  to Air Littoral and changed its registration from PH-RRU to F-GLIU  stayed until February 2004 when the company was declared bankrupt . The frame fpund a new french operator Regional Compagnie Aerienne in May 2004. The plane was sold subsequently to KLM City Hopper and acquired a new registration on March 4.2009(PH-KZU).
Painted in "Anthony Fokker (Farewell)" special colours 06-2017 Stored NWI 29 Oct 2017.



By Alec Wilson from Khon Kaen, Thailand - PH-KZU, CC BY-SA 2.0, Link

The frame has found a new owner TUS Airways of Cyprus (reg 5B-DDG)


Lockkheed L188

The frame first flew In November 1959 and was delvered to KLM as PH-LLD "Jupiter" on December 16, 1959. She was leased between November 1960 and November 1961 to Air Ceylon . Sold to Universal airlines as N854U ship 854 and converted into a freighter , went to Saturn Airways/Trans International airways (merged with Saturn on 1976) and Transamerica Airlines (the new name of T.I.A ) and was leased to Interstate Airlines ( Feb.1984) and finally  to Galaxy Airlines (July 1984). On December 29, 1985 , the plane was written off when it belly landed at Marietta-Dobbins AFB on a cargo flight from Philadelphia to Charlotte when the right main gear jammed in transit during the gear retraction following take off from Philadelphia amd the plane was diverted to KMGE.

Other posts related to the L188 in this blog 
https://utopiaairport.blogspot.com/2016/08/lockheed-l188-electra.html
AND
https://utopiaairport.blogspot.com/2016/05/klm-l188-electra-and-stars.html




 LUFTHANSA

BOEING 707-430. D--ABOB. CN 17718

First flight on 18/12/1969 and delivered to Lufthansa as D-ABOB " Hamburg"  on  February 3.1960.

Sold to Pearl  Air  and delivered to the company in January 1977 (as 9Q-CRT) , It was damaged beyond repair after a heavy landing at Sanaa on  August 9.1977

SABENA

Caravelle VI N OO-SRB  

by INFLIGHT500 on a 1/500 scale

More on OO-SRB at this link sabena-caravelle-oo-srb

SWISSAIR

Convair Coronado CV-990-30A-6


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 Delivered to Swissair on January 12.1962 as HB-ICA "Berm". Operated by the company until 1975 when sold and delivered  to SPANTAX on April 17.1975. Withdrawn from use on April 1982 after 7 years of faithful service and was broken-up at Palma (PMI) in 1991.