Rare piglet - the sequel! Royal Brunei Airlines Boeing 737-2M6C VR-UED seen on its delivery flight at Luton :)

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Rare piglet - the sequel! Royal Brunei Airlines Boeing 737-2M6C VR-UED seen on its delivery flight at Luton :)
Rare piglet - the sequel! Royal Brunei Airlines Boeing 737-2M6C VR-UED seen on its delivery flight at Luton :)

The Boeing Collection
From a collection of some 500 Boeing slides that I've had scanned from my archives. I hope they will provide some enjoyment and nostalgia from a bygone age :)

I had gone up specially to Luton airport to view this ultra-rare Royal Brunei Boeing 737 VR-UED which had stopped off on its delivery flight. Arriving early in the morning in order not to miss it, I managed to get this second photo as the aircraft taxied off for departure! Straight into the sun for this one, unfortunately, but I had no choice. Rare and beautiful :) My log book states the callsign was BI009.

VR-UED c/n 21809 - Boeing 737-2M6C was delivered new to Royal Brunei Airlines in early March 1980, and joined the two others in the fleet VR-UEB & VR-UEC which had been delivered five years earlier. Although re-registered as VS-UED and V8-UED, the aircraft stayed with Royal Brunei Airlines for 10 years before being sold to Aloha Airlines as N805AL. Some 13 years later, the aircraft was sold again, to GE Capital Aviation Service and was only withdrawn around 2015.

Taken with a Soviet made Zenith E camera and 300mm lens. From an original slide, scanned and unrestored.

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

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Taken on: March 8, 1980
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