First flight March 23rd 1983 and delivered as N779AL to USAir april 6th 1983. March 1987 OY-SBI Sterling Airways. May 1st 1991 leased to Air Columbus until November 1993. March 1994 OY-SBI Sterling European Airlines transferred. June 1994 leased to Sobelair for 4 months. November 26th 1997 N697CA Champion Air. September 12th 2008 N697CA Paxair Llc Chicago. July 18th 2013 wfu and broken up after 30 years in the air. Seen arriving rwy 24 this wonderful afternoon during "Charter 1989"

Built 1968, delivered new to SAS August 16th 1968 as their first DC-9-63 LN-MOU named "Leif Viking". March 21st 1974 HS-TGX for Thai. 1984 OY-SBK for Sterling Airways, 1986 transferred to Scanair. 1989 N794AL Trans Ocean Airways. Written off February 15th 1992 at Toledo, Ohio, in bad weather while operating for Burlington Air Express. seen on final approach to arrive rwy 01 at the old Gadermoen (ENGM / GEN) wich had the responsibility for Charter planes from november 1972 until October 1998.

Built and delivered to Sterling Airways in 1969. December 1975 RP-C123 Sterling Philippines Airways transferred.. March 1979 EC-DFP TAE- Trabajos Aereos y Enlaces (leased). October 1988 OY-STF Baltic International Airlines (leased). March 1989 OY-STF Sterling Airways again. December 1991 wfu at CPH. December 1992 HK-3805X Aerosucre, later HK-3805, and back to HK-3805X again. Broken up at Barranquilla in 2000 after flying more than 30 years. Seen climbing after take-off rwy 06, only two days before the Charter 1989 season at FBU ended. Scanned from original Fuji 200ISO negative film.

Built and delivered to Sterling Airways as SE-STI in 1969. Flew with Red Sterling titles some months in 1990. January 15th 1992 OY-STI flew the final Sterling Airways Caravelle flight CPH-LUX-CPH. February 1992 F-GHKN Air Toulouse. September 1992 OY-STI returned and stored at Kastrup. August 23rd 1993 HK-3855, later rr HK3855. March 15th 1994 HK-3855 written off at Bogota tire burst on take-off and airplane came back for landing after burning some fuel, overshot runway and pilot retracted gear to stop the rolling plane (airplane was carrying boxes of explosives), Seen at rwy 24 in August 1989. Scanned from original slide

Leased to Finnair as OH-LSI in April 1974 and restored as OY-STG in June 1976. Became F-GATP in November 1979, then LN-BSE, SE-DHA, TC-JUN, and finally HK-3756X in August 1992. It was broken up at Bogota in 2002.

New airline formed in February 1994 on the ruins of the old Sterling Airways. 4 of the original 727s were kept, and this one entered service in May 1995, showing the blue colours replacing the red colours of the former airline. First flight June 27th 1979 and delivered new to Singapore Airlines as 9A-SGG. July 10th 1979. April 1982 TI-LRQ for LACSA, rr N200LR December 1987 LACSA. August 1994 N200LR Capitol Air Express, leased for a few months. May 12th 1995 OY-SCC Sterling European Airlines. January 1999 N317NE, September 1999 N727NK rr. Op by diff. carriers until stored in Florida April 2023

First flight January 1st 1968 as F-WLGB. Delivered new to Sterling February 23rd 1968. March 1975 EC-CMS TAE (leased in basic NB colours). December 18th 1981 OY-STD Sterling (returned). April 1991 wfu and stored at Copenhagen Kastrup airport. Partly broken up, fuselage used as a training centre, before its relics was used in the fire dump. Seen taxing out for a rwy 24 departure. May 2nd 1989 all charter flights at Gardermoen (ENGM/GEN) was moved to FBU as the single runway at GEN was to be renewed.

Photo by Chris J. Mak

small 25 years sticker beneath forward door

Final livery

Built 1981 and delivered new to USAir as N772AL 5 May 1981. 16 October 1986 OY-SBH Sterling Airways. March 1994 to Sterling European Airlines until returned to Pegasus Aviation as N907PG in November 1997. December 1994 OB-1590 Aeroperu, May 1997 N907PG. Retuned to Pegasus end of October 1998, and in December XA-TMA for Allegro Airways. Withdrawn from use 2002 and stored at Cochabamba and reregistered N907PG, seems derelict. Photo: Tommy Lakmaker