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McDonnell Douglas DC-10-30 - Condor
Condor (Condor Flugdienst) is a German holiday airline and part of the Thomas Cook Group. Its main base is Frankfurt Airport but it also flies from other German airports. The airline was formed by the takeover of Condor-Luftreederei by Deutsche Flugdienst in 1961. Deutsche Flugdienst was founded in 1955 and began flying in March 1956. Rival Deutsche Flugdienst started a little later, in 1957. As name of the merged airline was chosen 'Condor Flugdienst'. In 2004 Condor became part of Thomas Cook.
Condor could name itself a widebody operator in 1971, when it introduced the Boeing 747 on its services. It was the first leisure airline to have the Jumbo Jet in the fleet. Later it also operated the McDonnell Douglas DC-10, the Boeing 767 and the Airbus A300 and A310. Today the Boeing 767 is the only widebody type in Condor's fleet.
Condor flew a total of five DC-10-30s, of which it received the first two in 1979. One aircraft followed in 1981 and two in 1995. The last DC-10 was phased out in 2000. The large photo shows a Condor DC-10 with a grey fuselage. A later paint scheme had a white fuselage (second photo) and an earlier scheme was based on a bare aluminium skin (third photo). All liveries had the yellow tail with condor logo in common.
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