Boeing 727 200F (DIRTY)

The aircraft left the Boeing factory in Seattle in April 1968 and began its career with the American company PANAM under the registration N7521. After having flown all over America for more than 17 years, the aircraft was sold to a charter company located in the archipelago of CAPE VERDE. It flew there for 9 years.

Due to the war for independence in Angola in 1975 and 2002, many roads and railways were destroyed. Many roads and railways were destroyed and air transport was the only means of transporting goods through the country at that time.
Angola is a country known for its natural wealth, especially for its diamonds, which are highly coveted worldwide. At that time, many airlines were created to ensure the transport of freight and fuel to the diamond mines, which consumed 50,000 litres of fuel per day for the extraction machines, equipment and generators.
A business that brings in a lot of money, but which is not without risks. The flight conditions are extremely dangerous, with a sky where missiles are not rare in wartime. The pace of the flight is also very fast. In this business, the more you fly, the more you earn. At that time a saying went: "Only the toughest survive".

It was under these conditions that the two Lourenço brothers, with the help of an English bank and a friend who was an ex-mechanic at UTA, embarked on their adventure with the purchase of four Boeing 727-200 for a sum of 4,637,000 dollars.
The good deals are in CAPE VERDE and Brazil. When buying ageing aircraft, some of which have been decommissioned, the rules of sale are simple. That is, where they are, in the condition they are in.
After being repainted, the 4 Boeings land at Luanda airport. The objective is to compete with TRANSAFRIK, a pioneer company in fuel transport, and Air Gemini. Equipped with a mobile tank, the aircraft can carry up to 17,000 litres of fuel on each flight. With a dozen lines present on Angolan soil, the flights follow one another and at more than 10,000 dollars a flight, a plane can be amortised in one month.

The death of Jonas Savimbi on 22 February 2002, when he was shot by the government army, was an important date, putting an end to 27 years of civil war. Peace seems to have set in, and with the reopening of the roads and free movement, road transport, which is less expensive, takes over. The tankers are once again on the road to the mines, but for the companies, it is a market that is collapsing.

Fuel Airways brought out its passenger seats. The planes continued to fly, but this time as passenger transport. The D2-FVC flew for another two years before being stored and destroyed in 2005. The other three Boeings followed the same path over the next two years. Fuel Airways, which had been renamed Travelling service in 2002, stopped its operations in January 2008.