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Boeing 707-373C N375WA. Passengers disembarking. In the background, BOAC G-APFD is taxiing out to Runway 4. At Ringway EGCC. 1968
World Airways DC-10
CDG.2008 # WO - MD11F N274WA - awp par CHRISTELER STEPHANE Via Flickr : @ World Airways McDonnell Douglas MD-11F - cn 48633 / 563 - Engines : 3x PW PW4462 - Reg : N274WA @ History Aircraft : # FEB.1994 : First flight at construction site Long Beach ( LGB ) CA USA # 31.MAR.1994 : Delivered to "World Airways" WO & WOA leased from ILFC with reg N274WA with config cargo # 20.NOV.1994 : Lease to "Malaysia Airlines" MH & MAS leased from "World Airways" # 14.SEP.1997 : Returned from lease MH to WO # JAN.1998 : Lease to "Malaysia Airlines" MH & MAS leased from "World Airways" # 26.SEP.1998 : Returned from lease MH to WO # 27.FEB.2012 : Wfu and Stored at Goodyear ( GYR ) AZ USA # 05.OCT.2012 : Ferried GYR-VCV for scrapping # 25.OCT.2012 : Tsf to "FedEx" FX & FDX with reg N68093 but will not enter service - Purchased for parts at Victorville ( VCV ) CA USA
1946. World Airways. (James Vaughan).
40th Anniversary of Operation Babylift: We’ll be posting material related to the evacuation of children from South Vietnam through early April 2015.
During the collapse of South Vietnam in 1975 President Gerald Ford ordered the evacuation of Vietnamese orphans from Saigon in the face of a massive North Vietnamese offensive. This mission, officially named Operation Babylift, began April 4, 1975, and evacuated more than 3,000 orphans throughout the month.
By mid-March more than 2,000 South Vietnamese refugees had been brought to the relative safety of Saigon on World Airways passenger jets.
World Airways cargo planes were also delivering rice to war torn areas, and, in his March 27 telegram to Ambassador Graham Martin in Saigon, the airline’s out-spoken owner Ed Daly suggested adding larger aircraft to the mission.
Daly also suggested that these larger planes could be re-assigned to bring even more refugees to safety, noting “should for any reason our 747 not be employed in the rice airlift … we are prepared to make it available for the refugee airlift out of Danang.”
He added: “After personally seeing the situation as it exists here… anyone with compassion for human suffering could not do otherwise.”
Images: Telegram from the American Embassy Saigon to the Secretary of State, 3/27/1975, from Box 10 of the Theodore C. Marrs Files, folder “Indochina Refugees - Orphan Airlift”
Pan American World Airways ticket jacket
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