Caravelle III in Cuba (stored)

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Caravelle III in Cuba (stored)

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Visited Cuba for work last week and ‘discovered’ this Caravelle III at ExpoCuba, couple of miles from Havana. The Expo itself is desolate and the aircraft is not in really good shape from the outside, but looks okay from the inside. It is now used as a café.

Aircraft involved is c/n 154, stored in Cuba since 1996 and flew as CN-CCY, SU-BBU, HI-499 and EL-AAS. Now painted in Cubana colours, but without vertical stabilizer, engines and large part of the wings. The last reg is also visible in the cockpit.

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Re: Caravelle III in Cuba (stored)

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Nice Cockpit shot!
Love this Classic!

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This is a Caravelle type 111
ff 24may1963. CN-CCY 01jun1963 to Royal Air Maroc. WFU 17dec1976. Sold 30dec1979 to Lebanese International Trading (Alibama) for lse to Air Alexandrie 05feb1980 as SU-BBU. del 14-15may1980 but returned jun1980 and stored. Sold aug1983 to Atlantic Aviation Services as EL-AAS, proposed lse to Caribe Express/Dominicana Internacional Airline jun1985 but ntu, lsd to Hispanolia Airways jul-sep1986, lsd to Aerotours Dominicanos dec1986 rr HI-499 apr1987,impounded 1987 Hav. Fuselage (less tailplane) moved jul1989 to Expocuba in old Cubana colours(red stripe on fuselage). Now with the latest colour scheme.

A fleet of Caravelle airplanes in Cubana service would have been nice (let alone KLM).
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Does anybody know if this frame is still present, and if positive, where it's to be found. I will travel to Cuba in a couple of months.
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It is still there. Latest GE image is from last month.

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Op 28 november 1976 op Schiphol dia van gemaakt.
Schiphol 28 november 1976 and making a color slide of this one.
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