1965 Douglas DC-9-14, c/n 45712/006, G-BMAH, The Florentine Diamond, BMA—British Midland Airways (British Midland Airways Limited), Donington Hall, Castle Donington, North West Leicestershire, Derby, England; powered by two 14,000-lbs thrust Pratt & Whitney JT8D-7A low-bypass turbofan engines; crew of two (pilot and co-pilot), seating configuration CY80, short- to medium-range, mid-size, narrow-body airliner; built by Douglas Aircraft Company, Long Beach, California, USA at Long Beach, California; only the sixth DC-9 off the production line; completed on July 6, 1965; first flight on July 6, 1965; CF-TLC, “702”, Air Canada, Montréal, Québec, Canada on January 6, 1966; N1792U, McDonnell Douglas Corp., Long Beach, California on September 5, 1968; N1792U, Trans-Texas Airways, Houston, Texas on September 27, 1968, leased from McDonnell Douglas Corp.; N1792U, Texas International Airlines, Houston, Texas on April 1, 1969, transferred; N1792U, McDonnell Douglas Corp., Long Beach, California on April 2, 1969, returned; N1792U, Texas International Airlines, Houston, Texas on June 9, 1969, leased from McDonnell Douglas Corp.; N1792U, McDonnell Douglas Corp., Long Beach, California on December 18, 1969; N1792U, Southern Airways, Atlanta, Georgia on December 22, 1969, leased from McDonnell Douglas Corp.; OH-LYB, Finnair (Finnair Oyj), Helsinki, Finland on February 13, 1971; G-BGWP, BMA—British Midland Airways, Donington Hall, Castle Donington, North West Leicestershire, Derby, not taken up; OH-LYB, named Darley Dale on September 3, 1977, named Merseyside in 1978, BMA—British Midland Airways, Donington Hall, Castle Donington, North West Leicestershire, Derby on September 3, 1977, leased from Finnair; OH-LYB, Finnair, Helsinki on December 31, 1979, returned; G-BMAH, The Florentine Diamond, BMA—British Midland Airways, Donington Hall, Castle Donington, North West Leicestershire, Derby on June 24, 1983, leased from Finnair; G-BMAH, The Florentine Diamond, British Midland, Donington Hall, Castle Donington, North West Leicestershire, Derby on September 24, 1986; bought by Ansett Worldwide Aviation Services, Dublin, Leinster, Ireland on January 12, 1988 and leased back to British Midland; G-BMAH, Ansett Worldwide Aviation Services, Dublin, Leinster on November 15, 1995, returned; HK-4056X, Inter (Intercontinental de Aviación SA), Bogotá, D.C., Columbia on December 8, 1995; withdrawn from use and stored at Eldorado International Airport (BOG), Bogotá, D.C. in September 1997; scrapped at Eldorado International Airport (BOG), Bogotá, D.C. in September 2003.
From a starboard window aboard 1984 Boeing 737-236(A), c/n 23165/1064, G-BKYG, River Exe, British Airways. Signage on grass between runway and taxiway marked “68–0 | 67–0”, “RUNWAY AHEAD”, and “67–0 | 83”, London Heathrow Airport (LHR), Hillingdon, London, England on Sunday, August 16, 1987.
[1984 Nikon FE2 SLR 35-mm roll film camera, s/n 1816483, with Nikkor AI 50-mm f/1.8 lens, s/n 2336591, and 52-mm polarizing filter; Kodak Gold Super 200 36-exposure colour negative film]
© Copyright photograph by Stephan Alexander Scharnberg, August 1987
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