It may have taken me nearly 2 years, but I have finally ‘spotted’ each 747-400 currently in service for Lufthansa……
D-ABTA or ‘Sachsen’ was delivered to Lufthansa in September 1989.
D-ABTC was delivered to Lufthansa in February 1990 and known as ‘Mecklenburg-Vorpommern’
D-ABTD or ‘Hamburg’ joined the fleet in April 1990. Photo taken in San Francisco (SFO).
D-ABTE or ‘Sachsen-Anhalt’ joined the fleet in April 1991. Photo taken in Los Angeles (LAX).
Lufthansa’s D-ABTF ‘Thuringen’ joined the fleet in April 1991.
D-ABTH or ‘Duisburg’ joined the Lufthansa fleet in June 1991.
D-ABTK or ‘Kiel’ joined the fleet in December 2001.
Lufthansa’s D-ABTL, Dresden, was delivered to the fleet in March 2002.
D-ABVC or ‘Baden-Wurttemberg’ joined the fleet in August 1989.
Lufthansa’s D-ABVD, ‘Bochum’ joined the fleet in May 1990.
Lufthansa’s D-ABVE or ‘Potsdam’ joined the fleet in May 1990. Photo taken in Los Angeles (LAX).
D-ABVF seen here in Frankfurt, was retired from the fleet on January 14, 2014.
Lufthansa’s D-ABVK, Hannover, joined the fleet in April 1991.
Lufthansa’s D-ABVH (Dusseldorf) joined the fleet in April 1991.
D-ABVL Joined the fleet in February 1992
D-ABVM joined the fleet in February 1998
D-ABVN, Dortmund, joined Lufthansa’s fleet in May of 1992.
D-ABVO or ‘Mulheim a.d. Ruhr’ joined the fleet in May 1996.
Lufthansa’s D-ABVP or ‘Bremen’ joined the fleet in February 1997.
D-ABVR was delivered to Lufthansa in March 1997 and is nicknamed ‘Koln’.
Lufthansa’s D-ABVS, ‘Saarland’, joined the fleet in April 1997.
Lufthansa’s D-ABVT joined the fleet in April of 1997.
Boeing 747-400 ‘D-ABVU’ joined the fleet in December 1998 and is nicknamed ‘Bayern’.
D-ABVW or ‘Wolfsburg’ joined the fleet in March 1999.
D-ABVX or ‘Schleswig-Holstein’ was delivered to Lufthansa in November 1999.
D-ABVY was delivered to Lufthansa in December 2000 and is nicknamed ‘Nordrhein-Westfalen’.
Lufthansa’s D-ABVZ, ‘Niedersachsen’ was the last 747-400 that joined the fleet. She was delivered in February of 2001.
