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Samaritan's Purse recent addition, this nearly 50 year old DC-8 combi. Used mostly for humanitarian aid this DC-8 flew to Ecuador in response to the earthquake last month and recently flew to Liberia. Configured Y32. Seen here at its home base at PTI. Delivered to Finnair in 1969 as a DC-8-62CF, OH-LFR and later that year became OH-LFT. In 1981 it became 46013/F-RAFG with the French Air Force where it was upgraded from PW JT3D-3B engines to CFMI CFM56-2C1 and became a DC-8-72CF. ATI bought it in 2005 and operated it until 2014.