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    Airframe Family: Douglas DC-8 / C-24
    Latest Model:DC-8-21
    Construction Number:45280
    Last Civil Registration:N220RB
    Compressed ID:Douglas DC-8-21 cn 45280 cr N220RB
    Latest Owner or Location:China Aviation Museum, Xiaotanzhanzen (previously Datang Shan), Beijing

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    Dates

    Event

    1958

    Constructed as a DC-8-12.

    16 June 1960

    To United Air Lines with new c/r N8003U.

    May 1965

    Converted to a DC-8-21.

    September 1976


    Photographer: George Mihalek
    Notes: At Cleveland, Ohio

    From 13 May 1980 to 30 October 1996

    To Project Orbis International Inc, New York, NY with new c/r N220RB.

    June 1983


    Photographer: George Mihalek
    Notes: At Los Angeles International, CA.

    1997

    To China Aviation Museum, Xiaotanzhanzen (previously Datang Shan), Beijing.
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    6 November 2008


    Photographer: Alec Wilson
    Notes: Douglas DC8-21,formerly a flying eye hospital for the ORBIS project at the China Aviation Museum, Xiaotangshanzen, Datang Shan,Beijing,China. Photo displayed with written permission of Alec Wilson

    30 November 2011


    Photographer: Reinhard Jost
    Notes: China Aviation Museum
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