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    Airframe Family: Douglas DC-8 / C-24
    Latest Model:DC-8F-54
    Construction Number:45663
    Last Civil Registration:N56FA
    Compressed ID:Douglas DC-8F-54 cn 45663 cr N56FA
    Latest Owner or Location:Sound Corp, Carson City, NV

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    Dates

    Event

    1963

    Constructed as a DC-8F-54.

    20 September 1963

    To Riddle Airlines with new c/r N108RD.

    From 1 March 1964 to Circa 1981

    To Airlift International keeping c/r N108RD.

    1 February 1969

    Leased to National Airlines.

    May 1973


    Photographer: Carl Ford
    Notes: At London Heathrow Airport

    March 1977


    Photographer: Reinhard Zinabold
    Notes: N108RD - McDonnellDouglas DC-8-54CF - Airlift Internationalat Miami International Airport (MIA) in March 1977

    September 1981

    To Arrow Air keeping c/r N108RD.

    September 1984


    Photographer: Reinhard Zinabold
    Notes: N108RD - McDonnell Douglas DC-8-54F - Arrow Air at Marana Pinal Air Park (MZJ) in September 1984

    1 June 1986

    To Interamericana Cargo Venezuela with new c/r YV-445C.

    January 1990


    Photographer: Anders Nilsson
    Notes: At Miami International, Florida

    July 1992

    To Agro Air Associates keeping c/r YV-445C.

    20 December 1996

    To Fine Air with new c/r N56FA.

    30 January 1999


    Photographer: Ken Fielding
    Notes: At Miami International, Florida

    21 October 2000


    Photographer: Reinhard Jost
    Notes: N56FA of Fine Air at Opa Locka, FL. Earlier identities were N108RD, YV-455C, YV-504C and 3D-ETM.

    3 May 2003

    To ETRAM with new c/r 3D-ETM.

    8 February 2005

    To Sound Corp, Carson City, NV with new c/r N56FA.

    3 December 2014

    Civil registration, N56FA, cancelled.

    Scrapped.
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