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[LeoMuse747]

Air France Cargo Boeing 747-228F N18815 in the delivery colours by Aeroclassics/Blue Box. This aircraft was first delivered to Air France Cargo in 1974 with this N- registration. It would later receive a French registration in 1982, F-BPVO. F-BPVO flew for Air France Cargo until 1991 when it went to Cargolux as LX-DCV. Cargolux leased the aircraft twice to Atlas Air which acquired it in 1996 and re-registered it to N809MC. Atlas Air also re-engined the aircraft from its PW JT-9Ds to GE CF6s. The aircraft served Atlas Air until 2009 when it was stored at the Roswell Industrial Air Center. It has been broken up in 2011.
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Lovely model! Also quite curious to know she was re-engined when operated by Atlas. They did this to some other 747s aswell

 

[Critical Aviator]

Lovely model! Also quite curious to know she was re-engined when operated by Atlas. They did this to some other 747s aswell

Thank you ! Atlas Air sure look like they are loyal to GE, I can't think of a single aircraft type in their fleet which isn't powered by a GE engine.

 

[LeoMuse747]

Thank you ! Atlas Air sure look like they are loyal to GE, I can't think of a single aircraft type in their fleet which isn't powered by a GE engine.

They currently have a few PW-powered B747s, see N445MC and 446 (ex-Korean Cargo) and N489MC (ex-Singapore Cargo)

 

[Critical Aviator]

They currently have a few PW-powered B747s, see N445MC and 446 (ex-Korean Cargo) and N489MC (ex-Singapore Cargo)

You're right. Now I wonder why they re-engined some aircraft but not others. Maybe the engines of LX-DCV needed to be replaced but the ones of the 747s you mentioned didn't.