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    Airframe Family: Douglas DC-8 / C-24
    Latest Model:DC-8-61
    Construction Number:45980
    Last Civil Registration:PR-ABA
    Compressed ID:Douglas DC-8-61 cn 45980 cr PR-ABA
    Latest Owner or Location:ABSA-Aerolinheas Brasileiras

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a DC-8-61.

    13 July 1968

    To Air Canada with new c/r CF-TJZ.

    April 1972

    To Air Canada with new c/r C-FTJZ.

    1983


    Photographer: EX/ZX Collection
    Notes: At Miami International, Florida

    From 28 July 1985 to 17 November 1986

    To Eagle Air-Arnaflug with new c/r TF-ISA.

    June 1986

    To Florida West Airlines with new c/r N161DB.

    30 June 1986


    Photographer: Carl Ford
    Notes: Douglas DC-8-61 TF-ISA - Eagle Air of Iceland, ex Air Canada. At. Birmingham 30th June 1986.

    January 1987

    To United Aviation Services with new c/r N48UA.

    Circa July 1992


    Photographer: Carl Ford
    Notes: At Dublin Airport

    By September 1992

    To Buffalo Airways with new c/r N161DB.

    1995


    Photographer: Reinhard Zinabold
    Notes: N161DB - Douglas DC-8-61 - Buffalo Air Cargo at Miami International Airport (MIA) in 1995

    From 26 January 2000 to January 2005

    To Mas Air with new c/r XA-MAA.

    31 January 2000

    Civil registration, N161DB, cancelled.
    Exported to Mexico.

    21 June 2001

    To ABSA-Aerolinheas Brasileiras with new c/r PR-ABA.

    October 2012

    Permanently withdrawn from use.
    At Viracopos/Campinas International Airport, Brasil.


    Photographer: Marcio Bianchi
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