File:Interflug Airbus A310-304; D-AOAA, October 1990 CDF (5056707441).jpg

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Interflug was the national airline of the GDR - Airbus managed to sale three examples to the carrier of East Germany. One major motive to buy the airliner was the - bizarre - fact that the Ilyushin 62 lacked the range of flying to Cuba non-stop. Some passengers - or rather, refugees (Republikflüchtlinge in German), took the opportunity and escaped to the free world - while the Ilyushins were refueled in Gander, Canada...In other words - a western-built airliner was supposed to prevent more successful escapes from the socialist dictatorship...

It is also a paradoxical fact that all three Airbus A310s operated by Interflug, like D-AOAA above, entered service with Luftwaffe one year after Germany's reunification...

The Airbus pictured took its first flight on April 5, 1989 and entered service with Inteflug in June that year. In October 1990 the Airbus received the registration of the unified Germany, beginning with the single-digit D-...Since August 1991 the long-range Airbus has been flying for Luftwaffe as 10+21...

A picture of the same aircraft 18 years later:

www.flickr.com/photos/46423105@N03/4311282576/
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Author Aero Icarus from Zürich, Switzerland

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