Originally Posted by
Wunwing
Not so sure about all but one of the 327Cs being sold by 1971. Qantas had
N7099 on lease for most of 1971, using it as a dedicated freighter. It was returned late 1971 but then leased out again to, I think, TMA.
You are correct that some of the fleet, although taken out of Braniff service, was not strictly "sold", and remained Braniff assets for some time, but this was just a financial background issue like aircraft being "owned" by a carrier when strictly the ownership on the dataplate says it belongs to the bank. Their Braniff operational days were over.
A number of the Braniff 707-327Cs passed to Lebanese cargo operator TMA on lease, and unusually they retained their Braniff US registrations for some 10 years afterwards, through into the 1980s.