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    Airframe Family: Douglas DC-8 / C-24
    Latest Model:DC-8-51
    Construction Number:45252
    Last Civil Registration:XA-DOE
    Compressed ID:Douglas DC-8-51 cn 45252 cr XA-DOE
    Latest Owner or Location:Aeromexico

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    Dates

    Event

    1958

    Constructed as a DC-8-51.
    The prototype DC-8

    9 April 1958

    To Douglas Aircraft Company with new c/r N8008D.

    May 1958


    Photographer: Allan Bonnalie Collection

    21 June 1961

    To National Airlines keeping c/r N8008D.

    20 June 1962

    To TIA-Trans International Airlines keeping c/r N8008D.

    From 11 May 1965 to December 1965

    Leased to Lufthansa.

    December 1965

    To Transamerica Airlines keeping c/r N8008D.

    2 October 1966

    To Canadian Pacific Air Lines with new c/r CF-FPN.

    1 October 1967

    To Delta Airlines with new c/r N8008D.

    3 October 1967

    Certificate of airworthiness for N8008D (DC-8-51, 45252) issued.


    Photographer: EX/ZX Collection
    Notes: At Atlanta, GA.

    23 March 1979

    To F. B Ayer and Associates keeping c/r N8008D.

    1 April 1979

    To Aeromexico with new c/r XA-DOE.

    Circa 1980


    Photographer: EX/ZX Collection
    Notes: At Los Angeles International, California

    Circa 1981


    Photographer: EX/ZX Collection
    Notes: At Los Angeles International, California

    By 1982

    Permanently withdrawn from use.
    Seen stored at Marana, AZ.

    1984


    Photographer: EX/ZX Collection
    Notes: At Marana, AZ

    May 1989

    Agro Air Associates bought for recovery of spare parts.

    By 2001

    Scrapped.

    4 May 2015

    Civil registration, N8008D, cancelled.
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