F-BPJG Air France Boeing 727-228 on push-back, seen in original livery - viewed from the magnificent roof terraces of the Queen's Building at London Heathrow

The view from the Queen's Building at London Heathrow - a time long gone
Air France Triple :) One of Air France's Boeing 727s in original 1960s livery, seen from the Queen's Building at London Heathrow. Something of an Air France takeover, with three generations of airliners in view, F-BJTR Caravelle and F-BVGF A300B2 Airbus, accompanying the 727. THY 727 TC-JBM disrupts the French theme a little. Taken from my earliest vantage point at Heathrow, the Roof Terrace of the Queen's Building.

F-BPJG c/n 19863 - Boeing 727-228 was one of the first batch of Boeing 727s for Air France, delivered new in Feb 1969. The aircraft flew for most of its commercial passenger life with Air France from 1969 to 1989, before being sold back to the USA and then leased to Noble Air of Turkey as TC-AFC. The aircraft flew for another 8 years with Noble Air before being withdrawn and broken up at Istanbul in 1998.

This is one of a small number of slides taken by me in 1977-78, before I purchased my first SLR camera - a Zenith E. I was just transitioning from my trusty Kodak Instamatic :)
From an original slide, scanned and unrestored.

You can see a random selection of my aviation memories here: www.flickriver.com/photos/heathrowjunkie/random/

Taken in: UK / England / Hillingdon / Heathrow (show map)

Taken on: May 1, 1978

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