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    Airframe Family: Boeing B747 / C-25 / C-33 / E-4 / AL-1
    Latest Model:747-344
    Construction Number:22970
    Last Civil Registration:TF-ARU
    Compressed ID:Boeing 747-344 cn 22970 cr TF-ARU
    Latest Owner or Location:Manston, Woodchurch, Kent, England

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    Dates

    Event

    1983

    Constructed as a 747-344.

    To Boeing with new c/r N8279V.

    16 February 1983

    First flight.

    2 May 1983

    To South African Airways with new c/r ZS-SAT.
    Operated with markings: Johannesburg

    24 April 1996


    Photographer: Reinhard Jost
    Notes: B.747-344 while active with South African Airlines as ZS-SAT at Frankfurt International, Germany

    January 2004

    To Air Atlanta Icelandic with new c/r TF-ARU.

    January 2012

    Civil registration, TF-ARU, cancelled.

    To Manston, Woodchurch, Kent, England.
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    10 November 2012


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: 2012 photo stored at Kent International

    November 2013

    Scrapped.
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