First flight December 12th 1964, ordered by Lufthansa and delivered as D-ABOX January 10th 1965 and named "Köln". February 1981 VP-WKR Air Zimbabwe. October 1983 rr Z-WKR Air Zimbabwe. August 1990 5Y-AXM African Express Airways. Broken up at Nairobi in June 2001. Seen parked in front of the military terminal in August 1988, due to a meeting in Oslo for the Union of African States.

sold to Air Zimbabwe as VP-WKR - photographer unknown

Del new Jan 65. To Air Rhodesia Feb 81 as VP-WKR. Became Air Zimbabwe Oct 83 as Z-WKR. To African International Airlines early 90s as 5Y-AXM. Retired Aug 96.

Ex D-ABOX, bought from Lufthansa in 2.81 and seen here not long before repaint into the new colours

Looking superb at the time in her new scheme, this machine went to African International in 8.90 as 5Y-AXM and was eventually broken up at Nairobi in the early 2000s

D-ABOX in its original livery. Lufthansa's livery was in a state of continual evolution in the 1960s. D-ABOX was delivered in version No.2 with a simpler cheatline. Next to go was capitalised, italicised, serif titles, replaced by a lower case, upright Helvetica font. Finally, at the end of the 1960s came the blue tail with yellow disc. That livery took Lufthansa right through to 1988 by which time the airline's 707s had passed into history.

D-ABOX was sold to Air Zimbabwe as VP-WKR (later Z-WKR) in 1981.

On a Gatwick diversion, this 707 was soon to be re-registered with the new Z- prefix. Formerly Lufthansa's D-ABOX from 1.65 to 2.81; sold by Air Zimbabwe to African International in 8.90 (5Y-AXM) but wfu for spares recovery at NBO in 1996 and gone by the end of the decade