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    Airframe Family: Douglas DC-8 / C-24
    Latest Model:DC-8-63F
    Construction Number:46049
    Last Civil Registration:4R-EXJ
    Compressed ID:Douglas DC-8-63F cn 46049 cr 4R-EXJ...
    Latest Owner or Location:Expo Aviation

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    Dates

    Event

    1969

    Constructed as a DC-8-63F.

    8 August 1969

    To Seaboard World with new c/r N8639.

    8 August 1969

    Certificate of airworthiness for N867BX (DC-8-63F, 46049) issued.


    Photographer: EX/ZX Collection

    From 1 May 1973 to 25 January 1974

    Leased to Loftleidir Icelandic.

    30 September 1973


    Photographer: Lewis Grant
    Notes: At Prestwick Airport

    From 1 June 1977 to 14 May 1979

    Leased to Saudi Arabian Airlines.

    13 July 1977


    Photographer: Carl Ford
    Notes: At London Heathrow

    14 May 1979

    To Flugleidir with new c/r TF-FLC {2}.

    From 2 July 1985 to 25 July 1986

    Leased to Air India Cargo.

    Circa April 1986


    Photographer: EX/ZX Collection

    25 July 1986

    Leased to Icelandair.

    Circa August 1986


    Photographer: Reinhard Zinabold
    Notes: TF-FLC - McDonnell Douglas DC-8-63CF - Icelandairat Luxembourg-Findel Airport (LUX)

    From 13 July 1987 to 20 December 2005

    To BAX Global Inc, Irvine, CA with new c/r N867BX.

    Circa 1993


    Photographer: Reinhard Zinabold
    Notes: N867BX - McDonnell Douglas DC-8-63CF - Burlington Air Express (operated by American International) at Ft. Lauderdale International Airport (FLL)

    20 December 2005

    To Expo Aviation with new c/r 4R-EXJ.

    20 December 2005

    Civil registration, N867BX, cancelled.
    Exported to Sri Lanka.

    July 2018

    Withdrawn from use.
    Noted stored at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport, Nairobi, Kenya.
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