In March 2002 a retired Lufthansa Boeing 747-230, D-ABYM 21588, was acquired for a nominal one euro (€) by the Auto & Technik Museum in Speyer, Germany. This website is a pictorial guide to D-ABYM, illustrated with photographs of the interior and exterior of the aircraft.

The Auto & Technik Museum in Speyer and its sister museum in Sinsheim form the largest privately-owned museum in Europe. The museum at Sinsheim holds, within its collection, the only Tupolev Tu-144 SST outside of Russia and an Air France Concorde, one of only five-remaining supersonic aircraft once flown by the French carrier.

In early 2002, the mammoth seventy-metre long D-ABYM flew the short journey from Frankfurt to Karlsruhe where she was dismantled prior to delivery to the museum. Her engines, wings and tailplane were all removed to ease transport to Speyer.

Transported by road to Söllingen on the banks of the Rhine, she was then loaded aboard a barge for the final leg of her journey down the River Rhine to Speyer. A year later, in March 2003, the aircraft was installed above a raised platform within the museum.