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Previously, it operated four Boeing 707s, two of which were selected for conversion. One was converted to a tanker configuration called KC-707 Águila, retired in 2006, and the other was converted to a unique AEW&C configuration called EC-707 Cóndor, operated from 1995 until its retirement in 2022. [1] [2] [3] India. Indian Air Force [4] Iran
The Boeing 707 is an early American long-range narrow-body airliner, ... 1955, [27] when leading global carrier Pan Am committed to 20 Boeing 707s, and 25 Douglas DC ...
1970. April 22: A Trans World Airlines 707-131 (N743TW) was destroyed by fire at Indianapolis, Indiana, United States. [1]September 6: Trans World Airlines Flight 741, was hijacked by terrorists from the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine along with four others as a part of the Dawson's Field hijackings.
[28] [nb 4] Three Boeing 707-320Cs were ordered in November 1967. [24] The carrier made its first profit ever in 1968, with a net income of £910,000. [30] During 1972, Kuwait Airways' fifth consecutive profitable year, the airline had a net profit of £2.9 million. By May 1973, the fleet had reduced to five Boeing 707-320C aircraft. [30]
The carrier phased in the first of these two aircraft in 1988. [30] On 21 July 1988, a Boeing 707 freighter owned by the airline crashed 20 kilometres (12 mi) away from Murtala Muhammed International Airport; six crewmembers lost their lives in the accident. [31] A now-retired TAAG Angola Airlines Boeing 747-300M at Charles de Gaulle Airport in ...
The aircraft involved was a Boeing 707-227 registered as N7071 with serial number 17691. It was manufactured on June 11, 1959. It was operated by Boeing and it had accumulated 173 flight hours. [1] [2] [3]
Aer Lingus explained the move stating the carrier was repositioning as a low-cost carrier, which did not fit with Oneworld's pitch to the premium international frequent flyer. On 6 February 2007, however, the airline announced its intention to form a new alliance with JetBlue. This new alliance was to act as a weblink between the two airlines ...
An Air Zimbabwe Boeing 707-320B on final approach to London Gatwick Airport in 1989.. The entity that eventually became Air Zimbabwe formally came into being on 1 September 1967, when the Government of Rhodesia created 'Air Rhodesia Corporation' to succeed Air Rhodesia, a wholly owned subsidiary of Central African Airways Corporation (CAAC) that had existed since 1964 as a domestic airline ...