46575

/57

16.08.1972: Assembled in Long Beach and registred N1340U for Mc Donnell-Douglas

21.11.1972: Delivery ceremony of the first DC-10-30 in Long Beach, together with KLMs 46551/ 60

30.11.1972: To Swissair (St. Gallen), HB-IHA

01.09.1983: To Aeronautics & Astronautics

02.09.1983: Leased to Ecuatoriana, HC-BKO

11.1990: To Concord Asset Management and leased to Ecuatoriana

Hours / cycles accumulated by 11/1990: 78668 / 28026 (HIGH CYCLE DC-10-30!)

09.1993: Repossessed by Concord Asset Management

09.1993: WFU and stored in Latacunga, Ecuador

01.05.1996: To VASP, PP-SFB and leased to Ecuatoriana

03.09.2000: WFU and stored in Quito

2001: Broken up in Quito

DC-10-30

 

Engines:

3 CF6-50C

Photo by Don Boyd
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Swissairs first DC-10 was sold after eleven years of service with the swiss flag carrier to ecuatoriana. You could still see the brown Swissair cheatline on the fuselage!

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Photo by Joe Pries

An uncommon view for this DC-10 was this snowy taxiway as it operated most time in South America and the Caribbean region

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Photo by Don Boyd
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Sunrise for #57. After years of storage, VASP awakened Ecuatoriana's DC-10 when the brazilian carrier gave a financial injection to the ecuadorian airline.

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