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Old 12th May 2016, 09:20
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Originally Posted by compton3bravo
during a dock strike in the early 1980s when there was no amount of unusual registered aircraft at Luton ferrying in freight. Anyone care to elaborate.
Not an exhaustive list, have the following sightings from my anorak log during the July 1984 dock strike:-

18/7/84 N8417 B707 Global International, N15ST Hercules Transamerica dep 19/7
19/7/84 N707ZS B707 Jet Cargo
20/7/84 9XR-JA B707 Air Rwanda (twice)
23/7/84 F-BUOR DC8-55F SF Air and on 24/7
27/7/84 F-GFAR Hercules SF Air dep 28/7










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