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The World's Most-Beloved Boeing 757 Sent To The Graveyard Is Now Destroyed For Good

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The World's Most-Beloved Boeing 757 Sent To The Graveyard Is Now Destroyed For Good
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The single most effective flying billboard in transatlantic aviation history is no longer flying, nor is it sitting in an aviation museum. Instead, the iconic Icelandair Boeing 757-200, registered as TF-FIU, famous worldwide for its hand-airbrushed Northern Lights livery, has been stripped and reduced to scrap metal in a teardown facility. An airframe that single-handedly redefined global airline tourism marketing and carried millions of transatlantic passengers across 31 years of continuous ser

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