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.

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 Withdrawn from use 2002 and stored at Cochabamba and reregistered N907PG, seems derelict.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

Sterling Sweden leased OY-STT from the Danish mother company and a Lockheed Electra from Falconair. Sold in 1973 to Concare Aircraft Leasing as N515TP, then became N444SQ with Sis-Q-Flying Service. Later to a string of other operators. Broken up 1997, nose preserved at the Oakland Aviation Museum (photographer not known)

ex N578, SU-ANN. Became N515TR, N91BL, N34C, 9Q-CYO, WFU in 2003 and broken up in 2019

Sterling was a regular visitor to Luton in the 70's and 80's. In the background is a Monarch Boeing 737-200 and the old control tower. Delivered new to Sterling on 26 Mar 1980 as OY-SBF. Later operated by Sterling European after Sterling folded. To DHL / EAT 05 Jan 1995 as N729DH. To DHL / Premier Airlines and converted to a freighter 22 May 95 as VH-DHE. To K-Mile Air as HS-SCK on 26 Feb 2011. Permanently WFU at U-Tapao on 26 Aug 2013 in DHL c/s. Trucked to The Sky Airfield, Kachan, Phetchaburi, Thailand in 2021. Painted in white/blue colours in early 2022.

First flight March 28th 1969 at Toulouse, and delivered to Sterling Airways as OY-STH April 4th 1969. December 1990 leased by Air Toulouse as F-GHKM for a year, November 1993 HK-3806X Aerosucre, and in 1993 converted to freighter and rr HK-3806 for Aerosucre. 1999 wfu after 30 years of flying, and broken up at Baranquila in 2000. Shot through terminal window, backlit by the afternoon sun at the homebase at CPH., seen with "Star Jet" titles on front, ans "Sky Jet" on engines