Post by aerofoto - HJG Admin on Oct 24, 2017 4:10:42 GMT
This particular livery "really caught my attention" recently.
Not at all because of its promotional intent .... drawing attention to the plight of some of the worlds most endangered tropical animals species .... BUT RATHER .... because I like the DC-10 (always have) .... and this particular livery, to me, looks splendid on it since not many DC-10´s ever become flyinmg murals or promotional logo jets.
My attention was probably secured by "this aircraft in paricular" though (F-GNDC) because it´s also an AIR NEW ZEALND original .... ex-ZK-NZR .... the "very last DC-10-30" to remain in service with AIR NEW ZEALAND and which we sold to ILFC back in December 1983, and whom leased it to LINHAS AEREAS DE MOCAMBIQUE, via UTA, and with whom it became F-GDJK named "Maputo".
This was an aircraft I once knew very well at AKL/NZAA .... throughout the late 1970´s and into the early 1980´s.
Anyway .... here she is resp;endant in her WWF promotional AOM livery of the late 1980´s .... willed into HJG/FS existence by Camilo and myself last Friday afternoon .... "GRACIAS" amigo por todo ayudar con eso
AOM FRENCH AIRLINES DC-10-30 F-GNDC .... "Les Animaux/The Animals" - World Wildlife Fund promotion (1998)
A BIT ABOUT THIS PARTICULAR AIRCRAFT ....
DC-10-30, ZK-NZR (C/N # 47849 L/N # 213 (first flew on August 22nd 1975 and was delivered to AIR NEW ZEALAND on October 3rd 1975 .... to become the airlines 6th DC-10. ZK-NZR became the last DC-10-30 to remain in AIR NEW ZEALAND service .... and flew its final commercial service for the airline on November 2nd 1983, operating between Hong Kong and Auckland, under the command of captain Ian HUTCHINS. It was sold to ILFC on December 18th 1982 and leased to LINHAS AEREAS DE MOCAMBIQUE, via UTA FRENCH AIRLINES, as F-GDJK ("Maputo"), It was then sold to EQUATOR LEASING INC during September 1991 and leased back to LAM until May 1992 when it was temporarily withdrawn from service and stored at Le Bourget, Paris, France. This aircraft was then leased to AIR MARTINIQUE GUADALOUPE from May 27th 1992 until September 1993. It was next leased to AOM FRENCH AIRLINES, as F-GNDC, from October 12th 1993 and sold to the airline during March 1996 (between 1998 and 2000 and during its AOM service this aircraft supported the airlines "Les Animaux WWF promtional livery pulicising the plight of some of the worlds most endangered tropical wildlife sprcies), then sold to RECHERCHE AVIATION GROUPE SA and leased back to AOM from April 18th 2001, and then transferred to AIR LIB on October 28th 2001 following the AOM/AIR LIB merger. It was next sold to SAS RECHERCE AVIATION GROUPE on January 1st 2002 and leased back to AIR LIB, and then sold to the airline on November 22nd 2002 and stored at Chateauroux, France. This particular aircraft was finally sold to AVICO on July 25th 2003 and scrapped during August 2004.
I have the following bag full of AOM (and other French registered/operated) DC-10´s to present ....
tonymadgehjg.proboards.com/thread/8781/vive-le-france-les-memoirs
Mark C
BOG/CO
.... it´s not what one knows or has the ability to be able to do sometimes .... and nor is it whom one knows that matters either .... but rather (and in a case like this particular livery at least) .... it´s what one has access to than can often differentiate between and possible/impossible or the practical/impractical 
