Chronological order of events for airframe 21263
Dates in Black are considered exact and dates in Red are approximate.

DATE	REG	AIRLINE	LIVERY	NAME	EVENT	AIRP	NOTES
1975-10-27		South African Airways			Other		Order placed
1976-12-22	ZS-SPF	South African Airways	Original		Roll Out	PAE
1977-01-14	ZS-SPF	South African Airways	Original		First Flight	PAE
1977-01-31	ZS-SPF	South African Airways	Original	Soutpansberg	Delivered
1977-10-01	ZS-SPF	South African Airways	Original		Seen	LHR	Photo
1979-04-29	ZS-SPF	South African Airways	Original		Seen	FRA	Photo
1979-08-12	ZS-SPF	South African Airways	Original		Seen	FRA	Photo
1980-09-14	ZS-SPF	South African Airways	Original		Other	JNB	In hangar for A-check
1980-10-03	ZS-SPF	No Titles	Luxair livery		Roll Out	JNB	Rolled out after repaint
1980-10-03	ZS-SPF	No Titles	Luxair livery		Flight	ZRH	Flight SA272 JNB-ZRH
1980-10-04	ZS-SPF	No Titles	Luxair livery		Seen	ZRH
1980-12-01	ZS-SPF	SAA - South African Airways		Soutpansberg	Returned
1981-04-25	ZS-SPF	SAA - South African Airways	Old, old flag	Soutpansberg	Seen	ZRH
1982-08-01	ZS-SPF	SAA - South African Airways	Old, old flag	Soutpansberg	Seen	ZRH	Photo
1985-04-14	ZS-SPF	SAA - South African Airways	Old, old flag		Seen	LHR	Photo
1988-06-26	ZS-SPF	SAA - South African Airways	All white, blue cht		Re-Painted	JNB	Aircraft repainted for Air Mauritius lease
1988-09-07	ZS-SPF	SAA - South African Airways	All white, blue cht	Soutpansberg	Seen	ZRH	Photo
1988-09-30	3B-NAO	Air Mauritius			Leased
1988-10-01	3B-NAO	Air Mauritius	White tail, red logo		Seen
1988-12-01	ZS-SPF	SAA - South African Airways			Returned
1989-01-01		SAA - South African Airways	All white, red cht	Soutpansberg	Seen
1989-05-26	ZS-SPF	SAA - South African Airways	All white	Soutpansberg	Seen	FRA	Photo
1989-07-01	LX-LGY	No titles	All white, metal belly		Seen	JNB
1989-08-01	LX-LGY	Luxair			Leased
1989-08-01	LX-LGY	UTA			Leased		Sub leased from Luxair
1989-08-24	LX-LGY	UTA	All white		Seen	CDG	Photo
1989-08-28	LX-LGY	UTA	All white		Seen	CDG	Photo
1989-09-01	LX-LGY	UTA	All white		Seen	CDG	Photo
1989-10-31	LX-LGY				Seen	JNB	Back in JNB after UTA lease
1989-11-01	ZS-SPF	SAA - South African Airways			Returned
1990-01-01		SAA - South African Airways	All white		Seen	ZRH
1990-03-29	ZS-SPF	No Titles	All white		Seen	LHR	Photo
1990-04-01		SAA - South African Airways	All white	no name!	Seen
1990-07-08	V5-SPF	Namib Air		Etosha	Seen	FRA	Photo
1990-07-12	V5-SPF	Namib Air		Etosha	Seen	FRA	Photo
1991-04-15	V5-SPF	Namib Air		Etosha	Leased
1991-10-15		Air Namibia			Other		New airline name
1992-04-18	V5-SPF	Air Namibia		Etosha	Seen	FRA	Photo
1992-05-28	V5-SPF	Air Namibia		Etosha	Seen	FRA	Photo
1992-07-30	V5-SPF	Air Namibia		Etosha	Seen	JNB	Photo
1994-06-16	V5-SPF	Air Namibia		Etosha	Seen	LHR	Photo
1994-09-03	V5-SPF	Air Namibia		Etosha	Seen	LHR	Photo
1995-10-29	V5-SPF	Air Namibia			Other	JNB	In SAA hangars for service. Air Namibia leased ZS-SPC during service. (1 flight)
1997-05-24	V5-SPF	Air Namibia		Etosha	Seen	LHR	Photo
1998-04-01	V5-SPF	Air Namibia			Returned
1998-04-05	V5-SPF	Air Namibia		Etosha	Seen	JNB	Parked in SAA maintenance area
1998-04-09	V5-SPF	Air Namibia		Etosha	Rolled In	JNB	Rolled into hangar for repaint into: all white, small South Africa flag.
1998-04-30	ZS-SPF				Reg Changed
1998-05-09	ZS-SPF	L.A.M. - Linhas Aereas de Mocambique			Leased
1998-05-09	ZS-SPF	No Titles	All white, small South Africa flag		Seen
1998-10-05	ZS-SPF	No Titles	All white		Incident	MPM	Engine explosion, fire. Report and photos
1998-10-08	ZS-SPF	L.A.M. - Linhas Aereas de Mocambique			Retired	MPM	Plane under insured, not repaired.
2000-02-01	ZS-SPF	L.A.M. - Linhas Aereas de Mocambique			Scrapped	MPM	The demolition work was carried out by Universal Recycling.
2000-08-21					Status	MPM	No signs of any parts left

 

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