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Lockheed L-100-382B-4C Hercules
This photo shows Lockheed L-100-382B-4C Hercules (AP-AUU) sporting PIA logo during a pre-delivery test flight in USA. Two brand new Lockheed L-100s - first one registered as AP-AUT and second one as AP-AUU - were operated by PIA for a very brief period of time after their delivery to the airline in 1966 and later same year these two transport aircraft were transferred to Pakistan Air Force (PAF). AP-AUT received serial# 64144 and and is still in service with PAF. AP-AUU received air force serial# 64145 but unfortunately met a tragic end when in 1968, during a supply mission attempt, it disintegrated in severe turbulence over Pakistan's Karakoram mountains region
Pakistan International Airlines L-100 #AP-AUT is seen on the ramp at Lockheeds Marietta facility in 1966. [Photo by Lockheed Martin]