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    Airframe Family: Douglas DC-8 / C-24
    Latest Model:DC-8-63F
    Construction Number:46088
    Last Civil Registration:N865F
    Compressed ID:Douglas DC-8-63F cn 46088 cr N865F
    Latest Owner or Location:Global Aviation Leasing Llc, Wickenburg, AZ

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    Dates

    Event

    1969

    Constructed as a DC-8-63F.

    29 May 1969

    To Overseas National Airways with new c/r N865F.

    From 28 October 1977 to 1 April 1979

    To Loftleidir Icelandic with new c/r TF-FLC {1}.

    1 April 1979

    To Seaboard World with new c/r N865F.

    From 1980 to June 1983

    Leased to Saudia Air Cargo.

    23 August 1980


    Photographer: Lewis Grant
    Notes: At London Heathrow

    1983

    Leased to Air India.

    September 1983


    Photographer: Carl Ford
    Notes: Douglas DC-8-63CF N865F of Air India Cargo. Heathrow LHR in September 1983.

    July 1984

    To National Airlines keeping c/r N865F.
    Leased to Emery Worldwide.

    August 1984


    Photographer: Carl Ford
    Notes: Douglas DC-8-63CF N865F of Emery Worldwide, at Stansted in August 1984

    1985

    To Rosenbalm Aviation keeping c/r N865F.

    2 April 1986

    Certificate of airworthiness for N865F (DC-8-63F, 46088) issued.

    1 January 1991

    To Emery Worldwide Airlines keeping c/r N865F.

    By September 2000

    To Murray Air keeping c/r N865F.

    30 April 2005


    Photographer: Reinhard Jost
    Notes: N865F of Murray Aviation on a cargo-charter for the automotive industry at Graz, Austria

    By December 2006

    To National Airlines keeping c/r N865F.

    Circa 2007


    Photographer: EX/ZX Collection
    Notes: At Detroit Willow Run

    2012

    Preserved at Detroit Willow Run Airport located at Yankee Air Museum.

    19 August 2013

    To Global Aviation Leasing Llc, Wickenburg, AZ keeping c/r N865F.

    25 August 2023

    To Global Aviation Leasing Llc, Wickenburg, AZ keeping c/r N865F.
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