First flight March 30th 1965, deliv new to SAS, their 1st DC-8-55 on April 27th 1965 as SE-DBD "Folke Viking". In June 1970 SE-DBD was transfrd to Scanair. October 1979 N721UA, and leased to TAE as EC-DIH in november 1979. Sept 16th 1980 N916R ONA, May 14th 1982 TF-FLB Icelandair (leased from ONA in basic ONA colours). January 15th 1986 TF-FLB Icelandair, 1987 TF-FLB repainted to FI colours and named "Sudurfari". 02-1988 5N-AWE Kabo Air, converted to freighter. Later 6N-OCM, 5N-MKE, 9G-MKE, 9T-TDA, 9Q-CAQ and 9T-TCN. wfu at Kinshasa 2018. Seen repainted at gate. Shot through Terminal window

Delivered to Seaboard World as N8631 in 1968. To Loftleidir Icelandic as TF-FLB in 1975. Merged into Icelandair in 1979. To UPS as N8631 in 1984 and reregistered as N836UP in 1985. Withdrawn from use at Roswell, NM in 2004 and parted out. Remains still there in 2009.

Ex Overseas National N916R, registered TF-FLB 15th Jan 1986 and became 5N-AWE with Kabo Air 4th Feb 1988

This DC-8 was originally delivered to SAS as SE-DBD in April 1965. It went on to fly with Swissair, Scanair, TAE (EC-DIH) and ONA (N916R) before joining Icelandair in May 1982. it is pictured pushing back to depart home to Keflavik (KEF). In June 1988 it was converted to a freighter and flew with Kabo Air (5N-AWE) and MK Airlines (5N-MKE) amongst other. The plane may even still be current with the Congo AF as 9T-TCN.

On a cloudy afternoon

This was the second Icelandair DC-8 with this registration. The earlier one was a DC-8-63CF.

Ex N8631, registered Aug 1975 and reverted back to N8631 12th Oct 1984

Purchased Aug 75 ex Seaboard World N8631 (but also flew for Loftleidir on a couple of occasions as N8631 leased from Seaboard).

Initially flown by Icelandair as N916R on lease and re-registered when bought in 1.86. Became 5N-AWE with Kabo Air in 2.88 and converted to freighter; was active with the Congo Air Force in a grey scheme as 9T-TCN in 2011