*************************************************************************** Mc Donnell Douglas DC 8-55F s/n 45753 5N-AWE "Sir Amandu Bello" of Kabo Air *************************************************************************** By Francesco Zoja Original Kim Simmelink FILES DC855KAB.*af copy to Your fltsim/texture directory DC855KAB.air copy to Your fltsim/pilots directory DC855KAB.gif screenshot of 5N-AWE at Amsterdam DC855KAB.txt current file NOTES Kabo Air is a Kano -Nigeria- based airline which started operations in the early 80's entering domestic passenger services with 5 Sud Aviation Caravelles SE 210 to which in 1987 3 Boeing B 727-25 where added expanding the fleet. In 1988 the company entered cargo services after having acquired a 1965 built Mc Donnell Douglas DC 8-55 which received freighter conversion in Florida. This ship registered as 5N-AWE was serial number 45753 and was originally delivered on April 27th 1965 to Scandinavian Airlines System where it served under registration SE-DBD "Folke Viking", in 1966 SAS became owner of the plane which eventually spent a few months under lease at Swissair on October 1967 and November 69 to March 70. Following the second period at Swissair s/n 45753 was leased to the SAS subsidiary Scanair where it flew untill October 1979 when the owner sold it to United Air Leasing Corporation as N721UA. The American company on November of the same year eventually leased the ship under spanish registration EC-DIH to Union de Transport Aeriens and to Trabajos Aereos y Enlaces SA. On Sepetnber 1980 the ship was returned to the owner and leased to Overseas National Airways as N916R just to be subleased to Saudia where it flew untill November of the same year when ONA became the new owner. Although Overseas National bought the plane it was once again leased to another company named Sun Land Airlines where it served untill July 1981 when it apparently entered the owner's fleet for a few motnhs. On May 1982 it was in fact leased to Icelandair where it flew for quite a long time before beeing acquired on Jannuary 1986 by Icelandair itself and receiveing registration TF-FLB. On February 4th 1988 Kabo Air bought s/n 45753 and converted it as pure freighter, it also received the Nigerian registration 5N-AWE and the fleet name "Sir Amandu Bello". On September 1994 the nearly 30 year old jetliner started operations at Overnight Cargo as 5N-OCM, later on March 1995 it once again changed owner and became part of the MK Airlines fleet as 5N-MKE. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS My thanks go to Kim Simmelink who designed the original aircraft. LIMITATIONS This aircraft model is made available for the private use of Microsoft Flight Simulator , no money is allowed to be done out of these files . OTHER REPAINTINGS LISTED PER MODEL - Aerospatiale SE210 Caravelle 10B1R; LANC Colombia, HK-3948-X (file CRVL10LA.zip) - Airbus A300-B4; Notheastern, F-ODRE (File A300NOR.zip) - Boeing B 707-323C; Challenge Air Cargo, N8402 (file B7073CAC.zip) - Boeing B 707-331C; Millon Air lsf Florida West, N851MA (file B7073MIL.zip) - Boeing B 707-331C; Air Haiti, N15711 (file B7073AHA.zip) - Boeing B 707-351C; Florida West, N740FW (file B7073FWT.zip) - Boeing B 707-373C; SAM Colombia lsf Florida West, N760FW (file B7073SAM.zip) - Boeing B 727-21; Roadway Global Air, N357NE (file B7271RGA.zip) - Boeing B 727-21; Aerosucre Colombia, HK-1717 (file B7271ASC.zip) - Boeing B 727-31; Gulf Air, N7890 (file B7271GUA.zip) - Boeing B 727-44; CF Air Freight, N188CL (file B7271CFA.zip) - Boeing B 727-51; Bahamas ExPress opb Pacific Interstate Airlines, N5609 (file B7271BEX.zip) - Boeing B 727-116; Hanair, HH-JEC (file B7271HAN.zip) - Boeing B 727-231; Laser, YV-909C (file B7272LAS.zip) - Boeing B 727-247; Haiti Trans Air, OB-1301 (file B7272HTA.zip) - Boeing B 727-276; Sky Trek International Airlines, N908PG (file B7272SKY.zip) - Boeing B 737-200; Braniff, N463GB (file B737BRA.zip) - Boeing B 737-200; Federal Express, N205FE (file FE737.zip) - Boeing B 737-201; Carnival Airlines opf Miami Heat NBA team, N206AU (file B737MHT.zip) - Boeing B 737-222; Haiti Trans Air, N67AF (file B737HTA.zip) - Convair 580; Serca Colombia, HK-3666-X (file CV580SCA.zip) - Convair 580; SEC Colombia, HK-3674 (file CV580SEC.zip) - Douglas DC3A; AeroEjecutivos, YV-440C (file DC3AEROE.zip) - Douglas DC7; Aerolineas Mundo SA, HI-621CT (file DC7AMSA.zip) - Douglas DC7; Antillas Air Cargo, N3775U (file DC7CAAC.zip) - Mc Donnell Douglas DC8-53; Aerocaribbean, 9Q-CBF (file DC853ACB.zip) - Mc Donnell Douglas DC8-54F; Zantop, N8042U (file DC854ZAN.zip) - Mc Donnell Douglas DC8-54F; AECA Carga, HC-BLU (file DC854ACA.zip) - Mc Donnell Douglas DC8-55F; Inair Panama, HP-950 (file DC855INA.zip) - Mc Donnell Douglas DC9-14; Air Puerto Rico, N31EA (file DC914APR.zip) - Mc Donnell Douglas DC9-15RF; USA Jet, N194US (file DC915USJ.zip) - Swearingen Metro III; Air Cargo Spain, N3110H (file METROACS.zip) HINTS For comments and suggestions or other downloads pay a visit at: Marco Balzarotti' s homepage http//www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Lab/7109 or Email me at: frzoja@tin.it