Cancelled order for Northwest Orient Airlines as N806US. Delivered to Trans Caribbean Airways as N8780R in 1961. To Eastern Airlines in 1964 then to Interswede Aviation in SE-DCR in 1971. Returned to Eastern Airlines as N8780R in 1972. To Kar-Air Finland as OH-KDM in 1972. Withdrawn from use at Brussels in 1985 and scrapped in 1986.

Ex-N8780R, SE-DCR, N8780R, N806US. Broken up May/1986 at Brussels

Ex-N8780R, SE-DCR, N8780R, N806US. Broken up May/1986 at Brussels

Ex N8780R, SE-DCR and N8780R. Take off on RWY 15. [Nikkormat FTn + Nikkor 200mm/4]

Seen performing a summer charter into Gatwick this 1961 build DC-8 ended its days being broken up at Brussels in 1985. Scanned from a slide.

[Yashica D]

Initially intended for Northwest Orient, this DC-8 in fact went to Trans Caribbean as N8780R in 11.61 and then to Eastern in 1.64. Interswede took her for three months (as SE-DCR) in 11.71; she returned to that part of the world with Karair in 6.72. On lease to Cyprus Airways at the time of this shot (pure co-incidence that the last thing I uploaded before this was a Cyprus DC-8), she was wfu at Brussels in 2.85 and scrapped three months later