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16.08.1972: Assembled in Long Beach and registred N1340U for Mc Donnell-Douglas 21.11.1972: Delivery ceremony of the first DC-10-30 in Long Beach, together with KLMs 46551/ 60 30.11.1972: To Swissair (St. Gallen), HB-IHA 01.09.1983: To Aeronautics & Astronautics 02.09.1983: Leased to Ecuatoriana, HC-BKO 11.1990: To Concord Asset Management and leased to Ecuatoriana Hours / cycles accumulated by 11/1990: 78668 / 28026 (HIGH CYCLE DC-10-30!) 09.1993: Repossessed by Concord Asset Management 09.1993: WFU and stored in Latacunga, Ecuador 01.05.1996: To VASP, PP-SFB and leased to Ecuatoriana 03.09.2000: WFU and stored in Quito 2001: Broken up in Quito |
DC-10-30
Engines: 3 CF6-50C |
Photo by Don Boyd |
Swissairs first DC-10 was sold after eleven years of service with the swiss flag carrier to ecuatoriana. You could still see the brown Swissair cheatline on the fuselage! Click here to see more photos in this Ecuatoriana scheme |
Photo by Joe Pries |
An uncommon view for this DC-10 was this snowy taxiway as it operated most time in South America and the Caribbean region Click here to see more photos in this Ecuatoriana scheme |
Photo by Don Boyd |
Sunrise for #57. After years of storage, VASP awakened Ecuatoriana's DC-10 when the brazilian carrier gave a financial injection to the ecuadorian airline. Click here to see more photos in this Ecuatoriana scheme |
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