Model Description
Herpa 1/200th scale 573702 Lufthansa Boeing 707-400. Available to pre-order at Flying Tigers.
With the delivery of the first of five 707-400s ordered from Boeing with Rolls Royce Conway engines in March 1960, the jet age began at Lufthansa. The first flight of a 707 took place on March 17 from Frankfurt to New York. As the fourth example, D-ABOF was officially put into service on 1 October 1960 and christened in the name of the city of Munich. After being retired in 1977, she was converted into a freighter in the same year and remained active as such in Africa until 1983. Subsequently, stripped of its wings, it served as a dummy for firefighting exercises before it was finally scrapped completely in 1990. This novelty on a scale of 1:200 bears the painting with the crane in the yellow circle on the tail unit, which was introduced in 1967, as the most striking element. It was not until 2018 – half a century later – that Lufthansa dared to modernize the unmistakable tail design.
RRP £110.00
