John M has provided us with these awesome images of ex Air New Zealand Douglas DC8-52 ZK-NZE.
ZK-NZE (msn 45985) came to being in 1967 and its first flight is quoted as 11 January 1968. It was delivered to Air NZ on 27 February 1968 and remained in service with the national carrier until divestment saw it sold to Howard Golden on the winter of 1982. It was then to become N4292P and went through a series of ownership changes before ending up with FB Air Inc in 1987. It moved to Ports of Call as N4292P late 1987 and sometime in 1988 it became C-FNZE. It was then around the houses again with ownership details listed as Fiesta Holidays, Wayfarer Holidays, then repossessed by FB Air in 1991 when it became N223FB. It was then leased out as OB-1438 to Faucett, returned to FB Air for a period then re-leased to Faucett!! Returned to FB Air 18/11/92 and subsequently placed in storage but was obviously converted to a freighter during the next two years.
It then headed off to LAC Columbia as a DC8-52F freighter registered HK-3842X in January 1994 and returned Stateside two years later where it was subsequently withdrawn from service at Miami, Florida.
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| Edmonton, 1988 |
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| At Miami 02 December 1995 |
