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    Airframe Family: Douglas DC-8 / C-24
    Latest Model:DC-8-62F
    Construction Number:46098
    Last Civil Registration:ZS-OSI
    Compressed ID:Douglas DC-8-62F cn 46098 cr ZS-OSI...
    Latest Owner or Location:Stars Away Aviation

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    Dates

    Event

    1970

    Constructed as a DC-8-62F.

    From 10 February 1970 to March 1981

    To Alitalia with new c/r I-DIWW.

    December 1981

    Placed in storage at Mojave.

    6 January 1988

    To MGM Grand Air Manhattan Beach with new c/r N39305.

    Circa 1990

    To MGM Grand with new c/r N802BN {2}.

    12 July 1990

    Certificate of airworthiness for N802MG (DC-8-62, 46098) issued.

    14 January 1997

    To Kitty Hawk International Inc DBA, Ypsilanti, MI with new c/r N802MG.

    12 April 1999


    Photographer: Reinhard Jost
    Notes: N802MG with American International Airways titles at New York-JFK

    January 2002

    To African International Airways with new c/r 3D-AIA.

    23 January 2002

    Civil registration, N802MG, cancelled.

    9 July 2008


    Photographer: Axel Klegien
    Notes: ZS-OSI Douglas DC-8 of African international arriving at Munster/FMO

    By July 2009

    To Stars Away Aviation with new c/r ZS-OSI.
    Operated with markings: Arcangelo Corelli

    10 November 2012


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: 2012 photo at Kent International - due to a weather diversion
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