Kalitta take B747 out of mothballs

Kalitta Air's B747-221F (SCD) msn 21744 routed through Shannon today. The aircraft had been in storage in Filton in the UK since November 2007. The aircraft which was registered to Kalitta on September 14 2007 was previously with Japan Airlines (JA8160) and Pan Am (N905PA).

The decision to put the aircraft back into service is presumably as a result of the two hull losses earlier this year when N704CK crashed at Brussels on May 25 and N714CK crashed in Bogota on July 7.

The aircraft pictured below was in an anonymous white scheme for the flight which routed Filton - Shannon - Willow Run using flight number CKS 9748.