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| Parked at Montreal, Canada on September 27, 1966 while in service with Nordair (via J. Roger Bentley) |
Derelict at Sao Tome Airport thirty years after being abandoned there in early 1970 (Jakob Ringler) |
Things are looking up for CF-NAL in this April 2013 photo (Rob Schleiger) |
- To National Airlines October 1957 as L1049H N7133C
- Stored at Miami, FL from mid-1963 until sold to International Aviation Company December 10, 1964
- To Nordair December 11, 1964 as CF-NAL
- Leased to Eastern Provincial Airways late 1968 for a brief period
- To CanRelief Air Ltd April 24, 1969 and ferried to Sao Tome July 30, 1969 for use on the Biafran Airlift
- Stored at Sao Tome for sale from January 1970
- Sale to Canadian freight charter company fell through in 1974
- Canadian registration cancelled February 1980
- Abandoned at Sao Tome in derelict condition
- Photos from December 2005 seem to indicate that it is in use as a bar or cafe (see December 2005 photo)
- Plans are underway in July 2007 to declare the aircraft, along with CF-NAM, national monuments to commemorate the humanitarian airlift based out of Sao Tome during the Biafran conflict
- Aircraft, along with CF-NAM, forms the centerpiece of an airport restaurant
- Aircraft under cover and incorporated into the Asas D'Avião Restaurante Santola in 2018
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