Originally Posted by
jrl767
[707]Nigeria?
Thank you
jrl for keeping this one a bit alive.
Yes, Nigerian Airways was the purchaser of the last 707 airliner off the line, number 929, at the very end of 1977. It was in 1989 it went to Dublin for that D-check which was never paid for so it never came back. A few years later the same thing happened to an A310 they sent to Brussels. I believe that for the Dublin one the funds, the best part of US$10m, were made available by the airline but intercepted along the way before the maintenance company received them ...
The very last (non-airline) 707 basic aircraft built at Renton was number 1012, as late as 1991, it was then adapted as an AWACS aircraft and delivered to the RAF; they can still be seen over Eastern England most days.
Afraid not. I'll finish this one off with the last Tristar off the line having been completed in January 1984, which went to TAP Portugal; theirs were used principally on runs from Lisbon to JFK, Rio, and such like. The Alia fleet did immediately precede it off the line through 1983.
Anyone else game for a stab at the others ?