PH-AHB Air Holland Boeing 727-2H3 seen on push-back at London Gatwick

Gatwick in the 80s - a view from the Roof Terrace
In the 1970s and 80s, Gatwick had a dedicated viewing terrace on the roof of the only terminal building. It was used by flyers, relatives and plane spotters alike, and it even had a café and fountains! It enabled quite a panoramic view of the airport.

Annoyingly slightly blurred (slow shutter speed) one of just three Boeing 727s that Air Holland operated between 1985 and 1987, making this quite a rare photo as they were relatively short-lived. The airline started operations with just the two Boeing 727s PH-AHB & PH-AHD, with PH-AHZ joining the fleet in 1987.

Starting life as Boeing 727-2H3 c/n 20739 TS-JHO 'TJerba' the aircraft was new to Tunis Air in Jun 1973, and flew with the airline until Mar 1984 when it was bought by Leslie Leasing as N189CB and leased to Air One. In Feb 1985 the aircraft was bought by Air Holland as PH-AHB and operated with them until Apr 1987, but with a lease out to Braniff between Nov 1986 and Mar 1987. The aircraft then went to Electra Aviation as G-BOKV, leased to Sterling Airways as OY-SCA in 1988, to EAL Delaware Corp. as N726VA, then leased to Avianca (and SAM Columbia) as HK-3480X. Withdrawn Dec 1998 and stored at Bogota - displayed engineless 2/04 at Parque Salitre Magico in Bogota.

Taken with a Soviet made Zenith TTL camera and 300mm lens, using Kodacolor CP100 print film. Scanned from the original negative without restoration.

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Taken in: UK / England / Mole Valley / Gatwick (show map)

Taken on: September 1, 1986

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