After the arrival of the first two Lufthansa Boeing 747s at Twente Airport (see https://niekvanderzande.nl/wordpress/two-cranes-park-in-twente/ ), a third one arrived for storage at Twente Airport on the 29th of June.
![Boeing 747 runway lights](https://niekvanderzande.nl/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/NvdZ_EHTW_29062020-01-683x1024.jpg)
Because of ongoing cost reductions, Lufthansa has decided to put 6 Boeing 747-430s in long term storage at Twente Airport. In order to facililtate this, several dedicated aircraft parking platforms have been created next to the main platform.
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The third Lufthansa 747 to arrive was D-ABTK, which is 18.5 years old. It was initially withdrawn from use at Frankfurt in March 2020. After some rescheduling, it was then ferried to Twente on the 29th of June.
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Upon arrival, D-ABTK was initially parked at the former Runway 11 platform. Later that week she was moved to the newly created parkingspots.
![Boieng 747](https://niekvanderzande.nl/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/NvdZ_EHTW_29062020-05-1024x683.jpg)
![Boeing 747 runway lights](https://niekvanderzande.nl/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/NvdZ_EHTW_29062020-06-1024x683.jpg)