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.

Deliverd December 22nd 1968 as YV-C-VIA to VIASA. October 1975 rr YV-125C, still VIASA. August 1986 YV.-125C bought by International Air Leases (IAL). October 1986 8P-PLC Caribbean Airways. April 15th 1987 TF-FLE Icelandair (leased from IAL). September 1987 subleased to Scanairas TF-FLE. May 9th 1988 TF-FLE back in Icelandair. Returned to IAL november 1988 and converted to freighter. March 1989 N7043U for Zambian Air Cargo, June 1986 for Arrow Air. January 1991 still N7043U Southern World Airlines until October 1991, then Arrow Air. November 1991 rr N345JW, wfu 2003 at KROW. Seen arrivng 24

Arriving Fornebu in the November failing light, SE-DAW was delivered new to SAS in September 1974 serving with the airline until January 2001. Later to N329FV and scrapped at Roswell, NM during around 2006-2007.

The Belgian navy on board helicopter of Dutch frigate HNMLS Tromp seen in Norwegian waters.

Built 1981 as N117AS, delivered to Coast Aero Center at Karmøy in May 1986 as LN-FAQ and operated for two years. 1988 N86GA, February 1990 EC-ESV NAYSA Aerotaxis, damaged November 1990 at Grand Canaria.. May 1st 2000 M975SC, and July 13th 2007 PR-ART. Possibly still current in Brazil. Photogrpaned at FBU shorly before it was sold, parked togehter with LN-FKE (behind) and LN-VYI

First flight August 15th 1975 and delivered new to Swissair September 29th 1975 as HB-ISO named "Biel / Bienne". February 29th 1988 SE-DFO SAS "Stavar Viking". March 30th 1988 OY-CTD rr, "Stavar Viking". December 14th 1990 N601AP Hawaiian Airlines, fleet no 98 "Hana". August 19th 2201 wfu and stored at Mojave from September 4th 2001. Broken up there 2004. OY-CTD was the third ex SR DC-9-51s leased in by SAS to cope with delayed deliveries of the new MD-80 fleet. Seen taxing out for a rwy 24 departure to CPH. Scanned from a slide

First flight November 4th 1974, and delivered new to SAS November 22nd 1974 as OY-KGP "Torbern Viking" and as one of the last DC-9-41s delivered that year to replace Caravelles and DC-9-21 on domestic flights with config Y122. 1984 repainted to the new SAS colours as seen on this photo 14 years later.. July 22nd wfu and stored at at ENGM. August 21st 2002 N41XS rr and stored at Roswell, broken up there in 2003. Seen after purshback from gate 28, LN-TUB is seen at gate 27, LN-RMN at gate 25, LN-BUG at gate 23 and LN-BRQ at gate 21. Busy morning ca 9am as ususal the day before FBU was closed.

First flight July 9th 1981 and delivered new to Swissair August 22nd 1981 as HB-INN "Appenzel i Rh". 1988 HB-INN renamed to "Bulach". July 13th 1997 N928TW TWA, fleet no 9088, converted to MD-82. December 2nd 2001 American Airlines (transferred). WFU and stored at Roswell February 9th 2003 and later broken up there after 21 and half years flying passengers. Seen taxying out for a rwy 24 departure back home. Scanned from a slide

First flight January 4th 1968 as PH-FLW at Schipol. and deliverd to ATI January 24th 1968 as I-ATIN. March 26th 1974 I-ATIN Italian Air Force (leased), named "Castor". December 1985 ATI (retunred). February 5th 1986 SE-ITI July 12th 1990 PH-FLW Fokker (returned) ans converted to freigther. November 1990 OO-FEG opf Federal Express. April 4th 1992 N702FE Empire Airlines, opf Federal Express. WFU January 30th 2009. April 15th 2009 N19AQ rr. WFU October 31st 2013. Seen taxing for a rwy 24 departure for the SAS Comuter division

First flight August 14th 1974 and delivered new to Toa Domestic Airlines October 17th 1974 as JA8430. January 12th 1983 OH-LNF Finnair. March 15th 1983 OH-LNF TAT (leased). November 1st 1983 OH-LNF Finnair (returned). June 1996 wfu. April 1998 LV-PNP Dinar Lineas Aéreas. December 12th 1998 LV-YNA rr. November 2002 wfu and stored at Buenos Aires. Broken up there in 2007. Seen taxing out for the morning AY792 departure back to Finland in April 1988. Scanned from a slide

Built 1972, June 1972 LN-MTA opf Varangfly-Norwings A/S, Kirkenes. October 1974 new name Norving A/S, Kirkenes, and LN-MTA was named "Bodø". December 2nd 1988 OY-CTO, later ZS-MNR and C9-AUD sad to see LN-MTA after the bankruptcy of Norving, but she flew on.... but for how long?

First flight 1984 as D-IBLF, re-registered D-CDWN. 28.February 1984 delivered to Norving as the fourth ans final Do-228-100 LN-NVB, and was flying SKE-FBU from the start. Cancelled 24.March 1991 and parked in Denmark. 12.April 1991 LN-NVB again for Norving, Kirkenes ,but canceelled again after less than two months. 28.August 1991 SE-KTN Northg Cross Airways, and it reverted to FBU on shcedule from Ângelholm. Returned to Dornier as D-CBDW. 5.November 1993 9N-ACV opf Everest Air. April 1999 9N-ACV Gorkha Airlines transferred. Seen left at Skien airport after Norving went bankrupt.

Built 1971, November 1971 LN-MTZ Fjordfly, Bergen. 10 March 1976 LN-MTZ Norving, Kirkenes. 2 September 1976 LN-MTZ Mørefly-Norving, Ålesund. 6 December 1988 OY-CTN. 1989 ZS-MNS, later Z-AKV. 6 June 2001 N9479T, July 2001 ZS-MSN, later C9-ATF and ZS-PAK. Seen parked at Skien airport after the bankruptcy of Norving. LN-MTA is seen behind.

First Flight 1986 as PT-SIW. November 7th 1986 LN-KOD Norsk Air as their second EMB-120. 1992 Widerøe LN-KOD tfd. February 1997 N14033 de Havilland. March 1997 EC-GMT Ibertrans Aereas. November 1997 EC-GOA Swiftair S.A, opb Ibertans Aereas. Later broken up. NorskAir is was based at Sandefjord, but due to the bankruptcy of Norving, they flew at Geiteryggen to keep up the routes flown by Norving at least in 1988. LN-KOD is lifting from the main runway.

First flight 1988 as PT-SKO. Then G-BRAS Concord Leaseing UK, and from April 15th 1988 LN-KOF opf NorskAir. May 10th 1989 G-BRAS (returned). July 31st 1989 PT-LUS. October 1992 N267UE. July 12th 1999 N71GL. October 27th 2020 registration cancelled. My only shot of this leased Brasilia in special colours, at Sola in May 1988.

First flight at Renton 5th March 1968, and del. to American Flyers Airline as N12826 April 1st 1968. In May 1971 Icelnadair TF-FIA named "Solfaxi", as their 2nd B727-100QC. in 1976 TF-FIA was repainted to the new Flugfelag Islands livery. October 1979 the new Icelandair ("Flugleidir") was after the merger between Flugfelag Islands and Loftleidir, and rr to TF-FLG. In 1982 TF-FLG was repainted to the new Icelandair livery, with new name "Heimfari". 31st October 1989 sold to UPS and converted for cargo. April 1990 N940UP UPS ship 940, and re-enginged with two new RR Tay 651-54. Scrapped 2008.

Built 1983 and delivere4d to Aeroflot in July 1983 as CCCP-85579, based at Sheremetyevo. From March 1990 based av Vnukovo. 1992 RA-85579 rr Aeroflot - Russian Airlines. June 1992 leased for three months to Sultan Air, september 1992 RA-85579 Piulkovo Avia (returned). November 2005 wfu at St Petersburg airport. Broken up 2007

First flight January 25th 1980 at Renton, and delivered February 2nd 1980 as G-BGTW for Orion Airways. March 7th 1985 PH-TVX Transavia. December 12th 1985 OE-ILE Lauda Air (leased from HV). March 25th 1988 PH-TCX Transavia (returned). May 16th 1988 PH-TVX KLM (lsf HV) . April 25th 1994 Transavia (returned). November 2nd 1994 KLM (lsf HV again). June 1st 1995 EI-CKS Ryanair. October 9th 2003 wfu and stored at Prestwick. Broken up there by March 2005.

Built 1974 as a Tu-154A, later converted to Tu-154B standard. Delivered new to Balkan in 1974 and operated until it was damaged when it ran off runway at Varna May 6th 1992. Balkan flew regular weekly flights mostly to Gardermoen, and this was a rare visit to FBU, and also my first shot of Balkan in new colours.

First flight June 6th 1968 at Renton. and delivered new to National Airlines as N4752 "Peggy". January 1st 1980 N4752 was merged into Pan Am. July 31st 1986 N4752 was tranferred to the European fleet. Pan Am reopened a daily service from LHR to FBU in May 1986,using B737-200s- For winter-season 1986/87 PA upgraded to B727-200s, and it kept using 727s until 1991 when A310s came nonstop across the Atlantic. Seen taxing out for the morning flight at 08:00 to London, while a C-130 is seen inn the background. N4752 was broken up at Miami in March 1993