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    Airframe Family: Douglas DC-8 / C-24
    Latest Model:DC-8-71F
    Construction Number:46029
    Last Civil Registration:N729UP
    Compressed ID:Douglas DC-8-71F cn 46029 cr N729UP...
    Latest Owner or Location:Aersale Inc, Coral Gables, FL

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    Dates

    Event

    1968

    Constructed as a DC-8-61.

    20 January 1969

    To Delta Air Lines with new c/r N1302L.

    July 1978


    Photographer: Carl Ford
    Notes: Douglas DC-8-61 - N1302L - Delta Airlines, at New York JFK in July 1978

    August 1983

    Converted to a DC-8-71.

    2 May 1989

    To United Parcel Service with new c/r N729UP.

    October 1989

    Converted to a DC-8-71F.
    Converted to dedicated freighter.

    September 1992


    Photographer: Carl Ford
    Notes: Douglas DC-8-71(F) N729UP - UPS - at Orlando International Sept 1992.

    From 20 May 2010 to 15 September 2014

    To Aersale Inc, Coral Gables, FL keeping c/r N729UP.

    Permanently withdrawn from use.
    And subsequently broken up at Roswell, New Mexico.
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    unreviewed imported data.
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