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RR> The -8i frames will most likely be gobbled up by cargo companies wanting
RR> BCFs once the 4 remaining carries start putting their fleets out to
RR> pasture long before they are bought as BBJs.
 
Very likely with minor doubts about the BBJ's suitability for conversion.
 
Plus there are the 2 VC25s that eventually become available ... laugh with it
if you want, but they are relatively low time and low number of cycles. Of
course they will be turned into a museum ... one for Udvar-Hazy and the other
for Paine Field/Museum of flight ... (just guessing)
 
Plus, I think, we'll see 747-8 frames as freighter for at least another 20
years.
 
A valid question could be ... if the 747-8 can be converted to a freighter,
why couldn't all these parked A380s ... ?
 
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