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El Al receives Dreamliner in retro livery

Boeing 787-9 El Al in retro livery

- 14 August 2018 -
El Al Israel Airlines has taken delivery of a Boeing 787-9 in retro colour scheme. The aircraft is the sixth Dreamliner in the fleet of the airline. It flies two 787-8s plus four 787-9s. El Al received its first Dreamliner in August 2017.

El Al exists 70 years and the colour scheme now on the 787 was once painted on its Boeing 707 aircraft. EL AL was founded in 1948 along with the State of Israel. It operated its first flight in September of that year, when it flew Israel's first President, Haim Weizmann, to Geneva for a diplomatic visit. For this flight, a military Douglas DC-4 Skymaster was converted into a civilian aircraft, because the Swiss did not allow military planes in their country. El Al's first commercial flights took place in 1949, to Paris and Rome. (Photo: Boeing)



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