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    Airframe Family: Boeing B707 / C-135 / C-137 / C-18 / E-3 / E-6 / E-8
    Latest Model:720-060B
    Construction Number:18977
    Last Civil Registration:N7381
    Compressed ID:Boeing 720-060B cn 18977 cr N7381
    Latest Owner or Location:Raytheon Company, Van Nuys, CA

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    Dates

    Event

    1965

    Constructed as a 720-060B.

    20 September 1965

    To Ethiopian Airlines with new c/r ET-ABP.
    Operated with markings: Queen of Sheba

    From January 1966 to March 1968

    Leased to MEA-Middle East Airlines.

    March 1968

    To Ethiopian Airlines keeping c/r ET-ABP.

    8 December 1972

    Survived an attempted in-flight hijacking in 1972, when a grenade was detonated in the rear cabin. Seven hijackers shot dead by onboard security. Despite damaged controls, was successfully landed at Addis Ababa.

    August 1973


    Photographer: Carl Ford
    Notes: Boeing 720-060B ET-ABP - Ethiopian Air Lines, at London Heathrow in August 1973.

    January 1988

    To AAAR Corporation with new c/r N440DS.

    8 March 1991

    To Hughes Aircraft Corporation with new c/r N7381.

    From October 1993 to January 1997

    To US Air Force keeping c/r N7381.

    Withdrawn from use.
    At Mojave Airport, California.

    31 August 1995


    Photographer: Dan Stijovich
    Notes: Embraceable Annie shoots an approach at Palmdale Plant 42 before returning to Mojave

    Circa 1997


    Photographer: Tom Tessier
    Notes: At Mojave Airport, CA

    6 April 1998

    To Raytheon Company, Van Nuys, CA with new c/r N7381.

    17 November 1998

    Civil registration, N7381, cancelled.

    October 2006

    Scrapped.
    At Mojave Airport.


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    Terry Fletcher
    Benjamin Lembree
    Tom Tessier

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