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AIRFRAME HISTORY: 21133
Chronological order of events
Dates in Black are considered exact and dates in Red are approximate.

Date	Reg	Airline	Livery	Name	Event	Airport	Notes
1976-03-10	ZS-SPB	South African Airways			First Flight	PAE
1976-04-22	ZS-SPB	South African Airways	Original	Outeniqua	Delivered
1976-04-25	ZS-SPB	South African Airways	Original	Outeniqua	Seen	ZRH	Photo
1977-09-02	ZS-SPB	South African Airways	Original	Outeniqua	Seen	AMS	Photo
1978-01-01	ZS-SPB	South African Airways	Original	Outeniqua	Seen	ZRH	Video
1980-03-01	ZS-SPB	South African Airways	Original	Outeniqua	Seen	ZRH	Photo
1982-02-05	ZS-SPB	South African Airways	Original	Outeniqua	Seen	FRA	Photo
1982-08-19	ZS-SPB	South African Airways	Original	Outeniqua	Seen	FRA	Photo
1983-04-09	ZS-SPB	South African Airways	Original	Outeniqua	Seen	LHR	Photo
1983-08-22	ZS-SPB				Maintenance	JNB	Added decal on sleeperette tables to identify table operation
1984-04-01	ZS-SPB	South African Airways	Original, 50 years sticker	Outeniqua	Seen	JNB	Photo
1985-04-02	ZS-SPB	South African Airways			Rolled In	JNB	Rolled into hangar for repaint into Air Malawi colours.
1985-04-12	7Q-YKL	Air Malawi		Mulanje	Leased
1985-04-13	7Q-YKL	Air Malawi			Other	JNB	Left Johannesburg as QM152 for London visit with Malawi president H.K Banda. Read the story
1985-04-14	7Q-YKL	Air Malawi		Mulanje	Seen	AMS	Aircraft arrived Photo Photo
1985-04-16	7Q-YKL	Air Malawi		Mulanje	Other	AMS	Aircraft left for London.
1985-04-16	7Q-YKL	Air Malawi		Mulanje	Other	LHR	Arrived at LHR.
1985-04-16	7Q-YKL	Air Malawi		Mulanje	Seen	LHR	Photo
1985-04-16	7Q-YKL	Air Malawi		Mulanje	Seen	LHR	Photo
1985-04-22	7Q-YKL	Air Malawi		Mulanje	Seen	LHR	Photo
1985-05-10	7Q-YKL	Air Malawi		Mulanje	Other	LHR	Aircraft departed for Johannesburg.
1985-05-11	ZS-SPB	South African Airways			Returned
1985-05-11	7Q-YKL	Air Malawi		Mulanje	Other	JNB	Aircraft returned from London. Landed JNB at 12.50 Local. Photo
1985-05-29	ZS-SPB	South African Airways			Other		First flights after Air Malawi lease. Aircraft did the following legs: JNB-CPT-FRA-CPT-LHR-CPT-JNB
1985-06-02	ZS-SPB	South African Airways			Other	JNB	Returned from the flights above.
1987-07-01	ZS-SPB	SAA - South African Airways	Old		Seen	FRA	Photo
1987-11-01	LX-LGX	Luxair			Leased
1988-08-01	LX-LGX	Luxair	Right side: Tail logo making an L		Seen	LUX	Photo
1989-05-13	LX-LGX	Luxair	Right side: Tail logo making an L		Seen	PMI	Photo
1990-03-31	LX-LGX	Luxair	Right side: Tail logo making an arrow		Seen	LUX	Photo
1990-05-24	LX-LGX	Luxair			Seen	LUX	Photo
1991-07-08	LX-LGX	Luxair			Seen	ATH	One and only appearance in ATH/LGAT for the schedule Luxair flight, replacing the usual 737-200! Photo
1991-07-21	LX-LGX	Luxair			Maintenance	JNB	Aircraft in hangar for a Major 4 (check)
1993-05-22	LX-LGX	Luxair	Right side: Tail logo making an arrow		Seen	LUX	Photo
1993-08-01	LX-LGX	Luxair			Seen	LUX
1993-08-29	LX-LGX	Luxair			Other	JNB	Aircraft arrived at JNB after lease.
1993-09-02	ZS-SPB	SAA - South African Airways			Returned		Returned from lease.
1993-09-03	ZS-SPB	Trek Airways			Leased
1993-09-04	ZS-SPB	Trek		Luxavia Star	Seen	LUX	First landing at LUX. Photo
1993-10-01	ZS-SPB	Trek		Luxavia Star	Seen	JNB	Photo
1994-04-11	ZS-SPB	SAA - South African Airways			Returned
1994-06-01	ZS-SPB	SAA - South African Airways	Old, white belly, new flag	Outeniqua	Seen	JNB	Photo
1995-09-24	ZS-SPB	SAA - South African Airways	Old, white belly, new flag	Outeniqua	Seen	JNB	Photo
1996-03-27	ZS-SPB				Other	JNB	Aircraft departed JNB with unusual flight number.
1996-03-30	ZS-SPB	Cameroon Airlines			Leased		Cameroon had their B747 Combi TJ-CAB for service with SAA.
1996-04-06	ZS-SPB	No Titles	Basic SAA livery, with orange tail		Seen	CDG	Operating for Cameroon Airlines Photo
1996-04-17	ZS-SPB	No Titles	Basic SAA livery, with orange tail		Seen	CDG	Operating for Cameroon Airlines
1996-04-27	ZS-SPB	No Titles	Basic SAA livery, with orange tail		Seen	CDG	Photo
1996-05-05	ZS-SPB	SAA - South African Airways			Returned
1996-05-06	ZS-SPB	Air Afrique	basic SAA livery		Seen	ABJ	Rumoured to have been seen with Air Afrique titles during HADJ. Verification ?
1996-05-09	ZS-SPB	SAA - South African Airways			Returned
1996-06-25	ZS-SPB	Panair			Bought
1996-06-25	ZS-SPB				Other	JNB	Rolled into hangar for exterior repaint into Air Namibia for lease.
1996-07-11	ZS-SPB	Air Namibia	Full c/s		Seen	JNB
1996-07-15	ZS-SPB	Air Namibia			Leased
1996-10-01	ZS-SPB	Air Namibia			Seen	FRA
1996-10-01	ZS-SPB	Air Namibia			Seen	FRA	Photo
1996-10-03	ZS-SPB	Air Namibia			Seen	FRA	Photo
1996-12-24	ZS-SPB	SAA-South African Airways			Returned
1996-12-24	ZS-SPB	No Titles	Basic Air Namibia livery		Other	JNB	Aircraft rolled into hangar to remove Air Namibia titles
1997-01-09	ZS-SPB	No Titles	Basic Air Namibia livery		Seen	HKG
1997-01-09	ZS-SPB				Other	JNB	Aircraft rolled into hangar for repaint into ZS-SPB SAA
1997-05-01	ZS-SPB	No Titles	Basic Air Namibia livery		Seen	JNB	Photo
1997-07-03	ZS-SPB	South African	New colours	Outeniqua	Seen	CPH	Photo
1997-10-01	ZS-SPB	South African	New colours	Outeniqua	Seen	CDG	Photo
1998-01-18	ZS-SPB	South African			Incident		Near miss over Africa Read the story...
1998-02-01	ZS-SPB	South African	New	Outeniqua	Seen	CDG	Photo
1998-04-05	ZS-SPB	South African	New colours	Outeniqua	Seen	JNB	Photo
1998-07-19	ZS-SPB	No Titles	All white		Ferried	MIA
1998-07-30	ZS-SPB	South African	New colours	Outeniqua	Seen	ZRH	Date needs confirmation! Photo
1998-09-05	ZS-SPB	No Titles	All white		Seen	MZJ	New reg N747KS not yet painted on aircraft.
1999-02-10	ZS-SPB	South African			Other	JNB	Rolled into hangar for repaint for return to Panair.
1999-07-01	ZS-SPB	No Titles	All white		Seen	MIA	Photo
1999-07-01	ZS-SPB	No Titles	All white		Seen	MIA	Photo
1999-07-23	ZS-SPB				Reg Cancelled		South African Airways formally cancels South African registration.
1999-10-24		No Titles	All white		Seen	MZJ
2000-04-12	N747KS				Reg Changed	MZJ	Registration NTU
2004-08-23	N747KV	Jet Aero Holdings, Inc.			Bought
2004-09-12	N747KV				For Sale		Listed as "for sale" on www.flyboytrader.com
2004-09-15	N747KV				Reg Changed
2004-09-19	N747KV	No Titles	All White		Seen	MZJ
2004-09-20	N747KV				Sold	MZJ	To be scrapped
2004-10-15	N747KV	No Titles			Seen	MZJ
2005-02-08	N747KV	No Titles	All white		Other	MZJ	Plane is in scrapping area at MZJ, with cargo doors cut away, and some flight surfaces removed. Appears it will be scrapped soon. Photo
2005-03-05	N747KV	No Titles	All white		Seen	MZJ	Total hours: 61,048 hours with 10,504 cycles
2005-04-01					Scrapped		Date needs confirmation

Photos of this aircraft

ZS-SPB 747SP South African
Original colours
Date: 1980-03-xx
Airport: ZRH
Tommy Mogren Collection

ZS-SPB 747SP South African
Original colours, 50 Years sticker
Date: 1984-04-xx
Airport: JNB
Tommy Mogren Collection

7Q-YKL 747SP Air Malawi
Airport: LHR
Date: 1985-04-xx
Photo: Tommy Mogren Collection

7Q-YKL 747SP Air Malawi
Airport: JNB
Date: 1985-05-11
Photo: Tommy Mogren Collection

LX-LGX 747SP Luxair
Tail logo towards aft
Airport: ???
Date: 1988-08-xx
Photo: Tommy Mogren Collection

LX-LGX 747SP Luxair
Tail logo towards front
Airport: LUX
Date: 1993-05-22
Photo: Tommy Mogren Collection

ZS-SPB 747SP Trek
Airport: JNB
Date: 1993-10-xx
Photo: Tommy Mogren Collection

ZS-SPB 747SP South African
Old colours, New flag, white belly
Date: 1994-06-xx
Airport: JNB
Tommy Mogren Collection

ZS-SPB 747SP No Titles
Old SAA colours, New flag, white belly
Date: 1996-04-06
Airport: CDG
Tommy Mogren Collection

ZS-SPB 747SP Air Namibia
Date: 1996-10-xx
Airport: FRA
Tommy Mogren Collection

ZS-SPB 747SP No Titles
ex Namibia colours
Date: 1997-05-xx
Airport: JNB
Tommy Mogren Collection

ZS-SPB 747SP South African
New colours
Date: 1997-10-xx
Airport: CDG
Tommy Mogren Collection

ZS-SPB 747SP South African
New colours
Date: 1998-02-xx
Airport: CDG
Tommy Mogren Collection

ZS-SPB 747SP South African
New colours
Date: 1998-04-05
Airport: JNB
Photo: Tommy Mogren

ZS-SPB 747SP No Titles
All White
Date: 1999-07-xx
Airport: MIA
Photo: Tommy Mogren Collection

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ZS-SPF 747SP South African Airways
Original livery
Date: 1979-05-xx
Airport: JNB
Photo: Tommy Mogren Collection
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AIRFRAME HISTORY: 21133
Chronological order of events
Dates in Black are considered exact and dates in Red are approximate.