AP-AMG - All Pakistan Aircraft Registration Marks

Registration:

AP-AMG

Certificate of Registration Number:

285

Registration Date:

December 1961

Operator/Owner:

Pakistan International Airlines (PIA)

Aircraft Type:

Boeing 720-040B

Construction Number:

18378

Line Number:

257

Year Built:

1961

SelCal Code:

First Flight:

December 12, 1961

Test Flight Registration:

Delivery Date:

December 21, 1961

Aircraft Name:

"City of Comilla"

Previous Registration:

Previous Operator:

Fate:

Next Registration:

9H-AAM

Next Operator:

Air Malta

Additional Remarks:

Construction number 18378. Line number 257. Built in 1961. Aircraft registered in Pakistan as AP-AMG for Pakistan International Airlines (PIA). Delivered to PIA on December 12, 1961. AP-AMG on its delivery flight to Karachi on January 2, 1962, piloted by PIA's ace Captain Abdullah Baig, broke the world record for the London-Karachi non-stop flight time. With representatives of FAI (Federation Aeronautique International) on board to monitor the official timings, AP-AMG completed the flight in 6 hours 43 minutes and 55 seconds. Aircraft named "City of Comilla". AP-AMG leased out to Air Malta, March 29, 1974. Registered in Malta as 9H-AAM, March 31, 1979. Aircraft sold to Air Malta, April 1, 1979. Registration AP-AMG removed from Pakistan Aircraft Register on April 1, 1979. 9H-AAM withdrawn from use in October 1981 and parked at Luqa Airport, Malta. Registration 9H-AAM cancelled, June 30, 1982. It was used for many years as a spares ship, until it was used for a film, which manhandled it as if it had just crash landed, and set fire to its wings in controlled fires that really did not damage it that much. It was later placed as cabin trainer in the fire training section, a remote part of the Luqa Airport, but was never torched. A group of kids used to jump the fence, and made the Boeing their "camp". They were often caught and ejected from the airfield by the airport security, but one time, just after being caught, they returned to set fire to the plane "in revenge". Due to this fire not much remained of this historic aircraft. The lesser damaged tail section had been ear marked for preservation by a Maltese Museum, but when the airfield passed to MIA Plc, the new management knew nothing of this arrangement and had the aircraft remains scrapped in 2001.

Photo:

Boeing 720-040B

Boeing 720-040B (registration AP-AMG)