It's not often these days that you find aircraft which have served their whole operating lives with one airline. Lufthansa is one of the exceptions. This version of D-ABEA was delivered new in Feb-90 and is still in service with Lufthansa today (Apr-13) although retirement isn't very far away. The previous D-ABEA was a B737-130 with Lufthansa and there is a photo of it at Manchester (MAN) in 1972 in the Boeing 737-200 section of this archive.