Boeing 707 9Q-CLK
 

Boeing 707 9Q-CLK finally left Miami after about three years of storage and maintenance work.
Anyone out there with more information on it's route of flight, destination etc. ?

Hello Mike,
Very interested to hear any news of its where abouts. Do you have positive news that it has left Miami? We operated it for a while at British Eagle. Our archives department have been following it for a long time now so any news will be valuable to us.
Have seen latest pictures on Net Airspace.
Thanks for any news

Hello Tarrant,

Yes, it finally left Miami and turned southeast. Most likely to pick up fuel in Sal Island or so. Maybe it even has the range to go nonstop to Kinshasa or Lumumbashi. My contacts in Miami saw it go and made some stunning pictures. It really looks very smart in a "Dreamliner-like" colour scheme.
I believe it was G-AWDG ages ago and the first plane to land in Tenerife after the PanAM/KLM accident.

If somebody knows about it's routing across the Atlantic, I would be most interested...

http://img266.imageshack.us/img266/4091/9qclk.jpg

It departed Miami the 27th and route is Miami-Natal-Accra-Kinshasa.
This plane has had a lot of air under it's wings and a load of history !

Fotocredit Miami Aircraft Photographers.
Cheers !

Hello Mike,
do you know what s the destination?
I fly twice per week to Lubumbashi..I hope to see it here!

I guess it will be hangered in Kinshasa and used for gouvernement flights but I have no insight in these matters.

Before TO:

G-AWDG
 

Hello Mike,
Thanks for that info. Yes it was registered G-AWDG when it arrived at British Eagle from Qantas. It carried the name 'Phoenix. Would be great to see it again in the UK!!!

VH-JET#1 & Her Sisters - 707 - pics of interior re-furb done at Lanseria in 2007

Apparently for Joseph Kabila for int'l flights but was his father's aircraft, built in 1959 for Quantas as one of 13 unique aircraft

More money spent where it's not necessary :ugh:

End of an era...
 

This is probably the last time you will see this aircraft operational as the trip to Miami for major maintenance has turned into a major fiasco.
Rumors abound here in Kinshasa from the ferry crew that F..K all was done to the aircraft during its 5 year stint at Miami's intl airport apart from it's "Original" Dreamliner paint scheme.
The engine overhaul/upgrades were NOT performed as requested and required by US law prior to the aircrafts departure.
Numerous components which were due overhaul/inspection were NOT carried out either adding to the illegal activities undertaken by so called regulated US maintenance facilities.
Now the problem is when the President finds out that he's been screwed yet again by not only his own people but by the American's who didn't even have the courtesy to use vaseline!!!:ooh:
Although the aircraft was rarely used before - other than a few trips to Asia and Europe - it's future is not looking good as knowone wants to fly it.
At least when they took it to South Africa for maintenance they ensured it was legal and safe to operate before allowing it to leave as required by law!

"The engine overhaul/upgrades were NOT performed as requested and required by US law prior to the aircrafts departure.
Numerous components which were due overhaul/inspection were NOT carried out either adding to the illegal activities undertaken by so called regulated US maintenance facilities."

That's what happens when you don't pay the bill....

Mobotu,, What?????
 

This is probably the last time you will see this aircraft operational as the trip to Miami for major maintenance has turned into a major fiasco.

Thats because nothing is for free!!!!!!!
In South Africa the Aircraft was impounded for unpaid bills.

Please man . Say the truth.

British Eagle b707-138b g-awdg lgw feb1969 ex- vh-ebg
 

Saw it parked on the presidential tarmac at kinshahsa yesterday afternoon

9q-clk
 

Thanks for the posting N1 limit. Don't know if you would see it regularly but any updates would be good. As the Eagle Group archivist there are a lot of folk interested in this ex Eagle aircraft.
Many Thanks

That "maintenance" outfit at Miami, is not the one owned by some individuals of Irish descent, is it??

Also interested parties over here. When VH-EBG ('City of Hobart' - 'ray) she flew with Qantas
(never Quantas BTW). Along with the other 138s she's in the
log book of many a quaintarse retiree.

If you are a dyed in wool seven-oh tragic like me (& Thylacine) -

VH-JET#1 & Her Sisters - 138 Photo Gallery

VH-EBA ('City of Melbourne') the numero uno (now VH-XBA) came to her final resting place
in Longreach, Queensland, in June 2007, to the Qantas Founders Museum.

As a life member of this fine institution (DC3 VH-EAP they got from me)
it was a memorable occasion to be there in Longreach to witness the arrival.
At sunset, to sit up alone in the wheel-house, gaze across the wide flat land to the west as the sky flushed to deepest glowing red was . . .. well I shalln't go on.

ps It's a rare privilege to have been allowed into many historic aeroplanes over the years,
beginning in the Australian War Memorial in Canberra in 1958, courtesy of the then director, Stan McGrath, well before opening time. Aahhhhh . ..

Saw it again in FIH 2 days ago when i was there same position,i wonder its purpose

aircraft was seen at Paris Orly during the weekend of december 7/8 2013 for a large Africa summit in Paris. So very operational this B707!

Flew VH-EBK and VH-EBH when they were 9Y-TDB and 9Y-TDC with BWIA in the 70's. Great aircraft the 138's. The SP's of their day.