Delivered new to British Caledonian Airways in Jul-80 as G-BHDI it was taken over (along with B.Cal) by British Airways in Apr-88 and served with them until Feb-99 when it was stored at Manchester (MAN) UK. It was ferried to Venice (VCE) in Jul-99 and re-registered N47831 before being converted to freight config in Nov-99. It was leased to Luxembourg based Cargo Lion in Feb-00 as LX-TLD and operated with them until Mar-01 when they ceased trading and it was stored at Luxembourg (LUX). In Aug-01 it was leased to Ugnadan airline DAS Air Cargo, initially as N402JR and re-registered 5X-JCR in Feb-04. It was returned to the lessor in Feb-06 and leased to Arrow Air in Sep-06 as N450ML. It remained in service with Arrow Air until they too ceased operations in Jun-10. After 30 years in service it was initially parked at Miami (MIA) and then transferred to Opa-Locka (OPF), FL, USA in Aug-10 where it was broken up in Jan-13.
Ken Fielding
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