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Consisting of one closed departure hall (48 parts) and one departure hall with recess for gangway (53 parts)

The emirate Qatar currently operates the most colorful C-17. Two airplanes are in service for the armed forces, one of them featuring almost the identical color scheme of Qatar Airlines.

The Royal Air Force currently operates seven Globemaster IIIs as part of 99 Squadron at Brize Norton in Southern England.

The advanced Straocruiser of Boeing has a loading capacity of almost 25,000 kg and is therefore superbly suited to transporting consignments of large-volume parts. In the 1/500 scale, the gigantic fuselage, which resembles a pregnant Guppy (an ornamental fish), offers an ideal surface to for a Christmassy livery. So it was no competition when Herpa chose this 2009 mold novelty for its annual limited Christmas model.

Of the four manufactured “Super Guppy” transport airplanes – Boeing’s remodeled Stratocruiser – NASA took on number 4 with the registration F-GSTD. Today, it is registered in the USA as N941NA, and is operated as a NASA transporter within the framework of a cooperation program between the European and the American space agencies.

This Transall C-160 of the freight company Xmas Xpress will be at your retailer in time for the Christmas season in a 2008 example edition. With a payload of 16 tons, the original would have the load capacity for many, heavy Christmas presents, but Santa Claus would hardly exchange his loyal reindeer sled for a military transporter. So the model will most likely remain a fantasy model for good.

Lufttransportgeschwader 61 of the German air force was established in 1957 and is based in Penzig in the Bavarian district of Landsberg. Its first airplanes were Douglas C-47s and the Nord-Aviation “Noratlas”. In 1971, the C-160D “Transall” was launched. For the squadron’s 50th anniversary, the C-160 was painted with a special livery by the Bavarian designer Walter Maurer, which depicts an intercultural dialogue. It campaigns for integration and speaks out against racism, ignorance and violence.

In 1955, when Sud-Est Aviation from Toulouse launched the first Caravelle prototype on its maiden flight, it wasn’t yet clear, that this first twin-jet airliner with its revolutionary, rear-mounted engines would shape future generations of airliners to come. Flight testing lasted four years, after which in 1959, the Caravelle I went into scheduled service first at SAS and a little later for its biggest customer, Air France, on the route Paris to Istanbul. . 43 machines were purchased by Europe’s biggest airline. The second example was the original of this model, F-BHRB named “Lorraine”. In 1961, it was converted to Caravelle III standard and remained in operation until 1977.

In 1965, LTU, today a part of the Air Berlin Gruppe, began operating jets for the upcoming holiday market in Germany for the first time. Initially, it took over Finnair’s already back then somewhat out-dated Sud-Est Aviation Caravelle III, which was quickly replaced by the brand new Caravelle-10R, the so-called Super Caravelle. The original of this Herpa Wings mold novelty, registered in 1968 as D-ABAP, was one of them.

Malaysian Airlines was founded in 1965 as joined airline of Malaysia and the now independent city state Singapore. Five Comet 4s were part of the initial inventory, among them the original of this limited edition novelty with the registration 9V-BAU.