A300 40th aniversary

Looks like the A300 is celebrating its 40th aniversary...so decided to dedicate this week's photo to this plane...
Only managed to get a couple of these, until now.

One in Madeira and another in Lanzarote (G-OJMR, from Monarch)...

D-AIAX, from Hapag-Lloyd, taking off from Madeira

Check another post on these planes HERE

My A300's

Just yesterday, Luís Rosa made a post on Linhadafrente.net aviation fórum regarding the last flight from a Lufthansa Airbus A300 to Faro.
The end is near for this bird. (at least at Lufthansa)...

Checking my spots, I noticed that the A300 that made this last flight was the only A300 I had ever photographed at Madeira, then with Hapag Lloyd colors....


Besides this one, the only other A300 I ever photographed was this Monarch, last year, in Lanzarote:


Quite a far photo, taken with a 18-55mm lens but for me, it's quite a nice record.