JA8002  Douglas DC-8                                       (c/n  45419)

                                 

                                     United continued to allow JAL the use of their ramp space at LAX when the latter airline received
                                     its DC-8s in 1960.  (UAL had them also).  Here is "Nikko" when brand new in August of that year.
                                    After 14 years faithful service, this machine was sold in the US to American Jet Industries as N420AJ
                                    who converted it to a freighter.  It was put out to pasture at Mojave in the 1980s.  (Still there?)