Dublin Movements, January 1977
Another month of slim enough pickings, but some nice visitors nonetheless. Gulfstream C-FNOR was a regular visitor; I think owners Noranda had an interest in Tara mines. N64696 was an ex-United 720 which still wore that carrier's basic (old) livery. This was a re-registration from OO-VGM of Delta Air Transport. It was one of many early Boeings to linger around the Aer Lingus hangars at Dublin for months at a time. It eventually lasted a lot longer than most of the type, as it ended up as an instructional airframe at the Geo T Baker School beside Miami Airport. It was broken up there in 2003. The Iberia DC-8 freighter was operating possibly the first of a series of scheduled cargo flights. These used to arrive on a Saturday afternoon, with EC-BMV operating all flights in the series. British Airways VC10 G-ARVM was used largely for crew training and while it mostly appeared at Shannon, on occasion Dublin or Cork were used for circuit work as w...