Aircraft Photo of VP-YNN | Boeing 720-025 | Air Zimbabwe

Aircraft
Registration / Serial:	VP-YNN
Aircraft Original Type:	Boeing 720
Aircraft Generic Type:	Boeing 720
Aircraft Version:	Boeing 720-025
C/n (msn):	18244 / 255
Operator Titles:	Air Zimbabwe

Location
City / Airport:	Harare - Robert Gabriel Mugabe International / ManyameMap
Country:	Zimbabwe
Airport Codes:	ICAO: FVHA IATA: HRE Local: - Other: -

Photo Date:	December 1980
Photo from:	Kjell O Granlund Collection
Photo ID:	420534

Photo Comment
First flown December 1961 and delivered to Eastern Airlines the same month as N8715E. To Boeing June 1970 and Calair December 1970. Parked after Calair's bankruptcy in November 1971. Bought by Air Rhodesia in a clandestine deal circumventing sanctions against Rhodesia in March 1973, and flown to Salisbury. Name changed to Air Zimbabwe 1980, re-registered Z-YNN the same year. Withdrawn from use in 1985 and broken up at Harare by 1988. Photographer unknown This photo was added on 12 December 2021, and has since been viewed 1593 times.

Photo Comment

First flown December 1961 and delivered to Eastern Airlines the same month as N8715E. To Boeing June 1970 and Calair December 1970. Parked after Calair's bankruptcy in November 1971. Bought by Air Rhodesia in a clandestine deal circumventing sanctions against Rhodesia in March 1973, and flown to Salisbury. Name changed to Air Zimbabwe 1980, re-registered Z-YNN the same year. Withdrawn from use in 1985 and broken up at Harare by 1988. Photographer unknown

This photo was added on 12 December 2021, and has since been viewed 1593 times.

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