Aircraft Photo of VP-YTY | Douglas DC-7C(F) | Affretair | AirHistory.net #866801
Aircraft
Registration / Serial:VP-YTY
Aircraft Original Type:Douglas DC-7
Aircraft Generic Type:Douglas DC-7
Aircraft Version:Douglas DC-7C(F)
C/n (msn):45188 / 837
Operator Titles:Affretair
Location
City / Airport:Harare - Robert Gabriel Mugabe International / ManyameMap
Country:Zimbabwe
Airport Codes:ICAO: FVHA   IATA: HRE   Local: -   Other: -
 
Photo Date:28 July 1982
Photo from:Kjell O Granlund Collection
Photo ID: 866801
Photo Comment

Delivered to KLM as PH-DSI 14-Jul-1957, converted to DC-7F August 1962. To Aer Turas as EI-ATV 31-Mar-1969 and sold to Compagnie Gabonaise d'Affrêtements Aériens 27-May-1969 as TR-LNZ. This was a front for Jack Malloch's sanctions busting activites to Biafra and Rhodesia. During 1979 used by the Rhodesian AF as 7230 in cross-border raids, returning to Affretair as VP-YTY, July 1980. Sold to La Mancha Aire July 1982 as N103LM, to Million Air May 1983, Trans Air Link in February 1985 as N8699TA. To Filair in the DRC in 1995, allegedly used to supply UNITA forces in Angola, scrapped at Kinshasa around 2010. Seen here at Harare immediately before the Affretair titles were removed before the ferry flight to Miami, FL. Photographer unknown

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