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    Airframe Family: Boeing B707 / C-135 / C-137 / C-18 / E-3 / E-6 / E-8
    Latest Model:720-023B
    Construction Number:18013
    Last Civil Registration:4X-JYG
    Compressed ID:Boeing 720-023B cn 18013 cr 4X-JYG
    Latest Owner or Location:Israeli Air Force Museum, Hatzerim Airport, Beersheba, Israel

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    Dates

    Event

    1960

    Constructed as a 720-023.

    30 July 1960

    To American Airlines with new c/r N7527A.
    Operated with markings: Mississippi

    Converted to a 720-023B.

    20 March 1974

    Civil registration, N7527A, cancelled.

    April 1974

    To Invicta Airlies with new c/r G-BCBB.

    April 1974

    Leased to Somali Airlines.

    November 1975

    To Somali Airlines with new c/r 6O-SAU.

    From May 1976 to August 1976

    To DETA Linhas Aereas Mozambique with new c/r C9-ARG.

    From August 1976 to March 1977

    To Cyprus Airways with new c/r G-BCBB.

    From March 1977 to December 1977

    To Air Ceylon with new c/r 4R-ACS.

    9 October 1977


    Photographer: Lewis Grant
    Notes: 4R-ACS Boeing 720-023B Air Ceylon. - This B720 replaced the DC-8 which previously flew the Heathrow route.

    January 1978

    To Monarch Airlines with new c/r G-BCBB.

    24 August 1978


    Photographer: Steve Fitzgerald
    Notes: At London Heathrow

    October 1981

    To MOAF Airlines with new c/r 4X-BMB.

    21 February 1982


    Photographer: Lewis Grant
    Notes: 4X-BMB Boeing 720-023B Maof AirlinesLanding on runway 26 at Luton.Maof was a short-lived Israeli charter airline.

    December 1985

    To Israel Aircraft Industries Ltd with new c/r 4X-JYG.

    Broken up at Tel Aviv - fuselage survives.

    Based at Israeli Air Force Museum, Hatzerim Airport, Beersheba, Israel.
    Fuselage survives at this museum.
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