This stunning looking Boeing 747 of National Airlines is a former firefighter plane and it still has the livery of its previous operator "Global Super Tanker". National bought the plane, removed the fire fighting equipment and added the aircraft to their fleet of B747`s. The stunning airplane operated a flight to Belgrad that day and as you can see it departed quite fast. We were lucky because the crew had a chance to to an intersection takeoff which just means that it didn` t have to backtrack the runway and pass us planespotters who were waiting at the end of the runway.
National currently operates a fleet of multiple B747-400 freighters, a single A330-200 and a Boeing 757-200. They mainly operate cargo charters around the entire world and since I am a hugh B747 fan I always enjoy seeing their great painted B747 aircrafts in front of my camera.
I also added some other special planes which visited Liege, including some B747` s from Kalitta which operated a few charter flights. On their way back home from Poland Kalitta used Liege as a crew base for a while. Nowadays we don` t see them that often anymore and they also stopped operating out of Amsterdam. As far as I know the only european destination they operate to on a regular basis shoudl be Leipzig in germany.
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Airport: Liege (LGG/EBLG)