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    Airframe Family: Boeing B707 / C-135 / C-137 / C-18 / E-3 / E-6 / E-8
    Latest Model:707-328C
    Last Military Serial:1417 SAAF
    Construction Number:19723
    Last Civil Registration:ZS-LSJ
    Compressed ID:Boeing 707-328C sn 1417 SAAF cn 197...
    Latest Owner or Location:South African Air Force

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a 707-328C.

    17 January 1968

    To Air France with new c/r F-BLCI.

    3 August 1983

    To Safair with new c/r ZS-LSJ.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the South African Air Force with s/n AF-617.

    By 1995

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the South African Air Force with s/n 1417.

    July 1995


    Photographer: Carl Ford
    Notes: Boeing 707-328C AF-617 - South African Air Force. at RAF Fairford, July 1995.

    23 July 1995


    Photographer: John Yates
    Notes: At Farnborough Airshow

    Converted to Tanker.

    After 2007

    Scrapped.
    Forward fuselage preserved.

    19 September 2014


    Photographer: Alan Wilson
    Notes: The forward fuselage has been saved and is on display at the South African Air Force Museum, Swartkop Airfield, Pertoria, South Africa
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