001. D-ABIM Boeing 727-30 Condor Flugdienst PMI 17SEP67

            Replacing an earlier scanned slide with a better version 28-Mar-15, plus DeNoise AI 13-Dec-22

D-ABIM was delivered new to Lufthansa in Feb-65 and was leased to Condor Flugdienst immediately on delIvery.  It was traded in to Boeing in Jan-76 as N9234Z and was stored until it was leased to Olympic Airways in Apr-76 for the summer season, returning to Boeing at the end of Oct-76.

It was again stored until May-77 when it was re-registered N72700 as a Boeing test aircraft.  It stayed with Boeing for 9 years until it was sold to Jet East Inc, entering the 'Corporate' market as N728JE.

It was sold to MME Farms Maintenance Corporation in Feb-87 as N841MM and was re-registered VR-CMM in Aug-88 and re-registered again in Sep-97, this time as VP-CMM.

It did a two month lease to the Congo Government from Dec-97/Jan-98 and then went on lease to the Azerbaijan Government between Jan/Mar-98.  It was sold to IDG (Cayman) Ltd in May-99 as P4-MMG.

It was based in Europe in the early 2000's and was seen frequently in Geneva, Zurich, Malta and Malaga.  It was stored at Southend UK in Feb-07 and was retired at Bournemouth, UK, in Jul-11.

It was broken up at Bournemouth in Mar-12 although the intact fuselage remained there until it was finally broken up at the end of 2014.  A flying career of 42 years.

Note:  The registration D-ABIM was later re-used on a Lufthansa B737-530.

Taken on: December 17, 1967

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