Critical Aviator 1/400 collection

My NG Garuda Indonesia Boeing 777-3U3ER fleet:
- at the back: PK-GII in the Skyteam livery.
- at the front, left: PK-GIH in the standard livery
- at the front, right: PK-GIE with the Wonderful Indonesia sticker. Delivered new to Garuda Indonesia in 2013, it flew with the airline until 2021. It was stored in Victorville from 14 February 2022 to 26 December 2023 when it was sent to Lake Charles. It remained there until 16 November 2024 when it was delivered to Philippine Airlines as RP-C7784.
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Air France Boeing 727-228 F-BOJC in the delivery scheme by Aeroclassics. On Tuesday 18 October 1973, it was hijacked by a female passenger protesting against the release of a French movie, The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob which was promoted by the hijacker's husband because she deemed it to be anti-Palestinian (yeah, still the geopolotical woes of the Middle East...). The flight was departing Paris Orly airport and heading to Nice Côte d'Azur airport. The flight diverted to Marseille Marignane airport. All passengers and crew were released but the hijacker was shot and killed when the authorities stormed the plane. https://aviation-safety.net/wikibase/330063.
Air France retired the 727 in 1993 and F-BOJC was re-registered N605AR and later N721DH before being scapped at Kingman in Arizona.
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Critical Aviator said:
Air France Boeing 727-228 F-BOJC in the delivery scheme by Aeroclassics. On Tuesday 18 October 1973, it was hijacked by a female passenger protesting against the release of a French movie, The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob which was promoted by the hijacker's husband because she deemed it to be anti-Palestinian (yeah, still the geopolotical woes of the Middle East...). The flight was departing Paris Orly airport and heading to Nice Côte d'Azur airport. The flight diverted to Marseille Marignane airport. All passengers and crew were released but the hijacker was shot and killed when the authorities stormed the plane. https://aviation-safety.net/wikibase/330063.
Air France retired the 727 in 1993 and F-BOJC was re-registered N605AR and later N721DH before being scapped at Kingman in Arizona.
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Now that's an interesting story.
 
Air France Boeing 727-228 F-BOJD in the Blue Tail Experimental livery by Aeroclassics. Not much is known about this 1970s experimental livery. What follows is my personal theory. In the late 1960s, Air France looked at updating their livery but weren't sure how to do it. F-BOJD received an almost all white livery in 1968 with a cheatline and nothing on the tail (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/...g_727-228_at_Geneva_International_Airport.jpg) . By 1969, F-BOJD no longer wore this all white livery and received this blue tail experimental livery. By 1973, F-BOJD received the then standard livery. Two years later, in 1975 the Barcode livery was introduced to the Air France fleet with the first Concorde deliveries. By the 1980s, F-BOJD received the Barcode livery and remained in the Air France fleet until 1991. I can't find any information on what happened to F-BOJD after Air France retired it.
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Airbus Industries Airbus A340-541 F-WWTE in the house livery and 'The longest range aircraft in the world' sticker by Phoenix.
This aircraft started its life in 2002 as a prototype. In 2004, it was delivered to Emirates as A6-ERF. It was retired in 2013 and scrapped in 2014 in Ras Al Khaimah in the UAE.
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