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Photos taken at Luxemburg Findel Airport - historic photos
Forum member Diddi kindly provided this selection of very interesting historic photos. Thanks!

Seemingly employed to last forever, the F.27s finally bowed out to the slightly more modern F.50s

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Apron space was at premium in the early Eighties, with up to 3 DC-8-63 and a Caravelle there was not much room left for taxying.

 

Looks like being pushed inside the hangar, but as far as I remember, the door sill was too low to accomodate the tail of a Caravelle.

 		 Short-lived A-300 ops to South Africa replaced the B747SP operated by Luxair.

Leased from Seaboard World after an B-707 from Executive Aviation and a DC-8-55F from Seaboard, N8630 carried the name Eleutheran Adventurer on its nose.

N8631 in the normal Loftleidir colours. All in all, there were quite

a lot of different colourschemes on Loftleidir`s planes. They leased some more for the summer-season while Seaboard used them during the low-season. 

sneaking out onto the apron with one of our friend at CV, we got this C-47 of the RDAF.

I got the impression that these planes were regular visitors, because we got

another one on a later visit. Probably brought in Aquavit for the Danish embassy there...

 on a scheduled service HEL-LUX.
also a normal visitor then, they tried again later unsuccessfully with an ATR. ex Seaboard N8633, this was CV 3rd DC-8 and its first DC-8-63CF,TF-FLA crashed at Colombo 15.11.78 while operating for Loftleidir.

also ex Seaboard N8630, this was operated for its Air Bahama subsidiary by Loftleidir, here in later colours.

This plane became N801UP.

 

It was always difficult even with a wide-angle lens to catch the objects of our desire inside CV´s hangar,

Affretair under maintenance.Ec Capitol Air, it crashed at Harare on Jan.26nd,1996.

 
Nice Canadair CL-44 just off maintenance. Ex CV´s TF-CLA, it became finally HC-BHS and was broken up "by mistake" at Miami during 1982 (according to the book:CL44 Swingtail by M.Porter. Very nice book). LX-ZCV was once ALIA´s JY-AFB, G-HUGE (nice reg!) of British Caledonian and after the merger with BA it went to CV. That explains the basic BA colourscheme. After CV, it migrated to AtlasAir and was wfu in 1991.

LX-KCV sporting Caribbean Airlines titles. Next to it the Sicotra DC-8 was parked, so I sneaked through the Luxair cargo shed, hid behind some conveniently placed containers and managed to fotograph both planes.Then I retired discreetly and no-one cared about it. Those were the days! 

 An SP leased from SAA was used for the services to South Africa.
707 with a black nose, with some happy faces retiring back to the canteen...

ex TWA 707 on lease to Cargolux, small titles appeared on the other side only.

caught on our not quite approved apron tour shortly before thrown out...

 a nice Canadair CL-44 of the Zairian carrier SGA awaiting its turn into the CV hangar, probably "just in time"...