Fluidr / Ken Fielding - Air Transport Archive's "Boeing 737-300" set

4L-TGL B737-3B7 Georgian A-l DUS 28JUL08

N 0 B 1.9K C 0 E Jan 8, 2009 F Jan 8, 2009

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Boring c/s !!

5W-ILF Boeing 737-3Q8 Polynesian Airlines(Samoa) SYD 05JAN99

N 14 B 2.2K C 2 E Jan 5, 1999 F May 4, 2022

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Replacing an earlier scanned photo with a better version 30-Apr-22 (DeNoise AI).

Named: "Tooa".

This aircraft was delivered to ILFC International Lease Finance Corporation and leased to Polynesian Airlines as 5W-ILF in Sep-92. It was sold to Polynesian in Jun-97. The aircraft was briefly leased to Ansett Australia between Apr/May-01 and then leased to Freedom Air (New Zealand) between May/Aug-01.

It was sold back to ILFC in Oct-01 and immediately leased to QANTAS Airways as VH-TAB. It was returned to the lessor in Oct-03 as N262KS and was leased to Cayman Airways as VP-CKY in Nov-03. The aircraft was returned to the lessor in Nov-17 and stored at Goodyear, AZ, USA.

In Apr-19 it was re-registered N282AA with Aerownership and ferried to San Salvador, El Salvador where it was again stored. It was leased to One Airlines, Chile as CC-DAN in Aug-19 although I can't see anywhere that it ever entered service (according to Wikipedia the airline "is in a semi-operational state").

One Airlines ceased operations in Jun-20 and the aircraft appears to have been ferried to Asheville, NC, USA in Jul-20 and stored. It was returned to Aerownership as N282AA in Apr-22. It'll be 30 years old this year! Stored, updated 07-May-22.

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9H-ABR Boeing 737-3Y5 Air Malta MAN 02JUN02

N 7 B 856 C 0 E Jun 2, 2002 F Jul 21, 2021

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Replacing an earlier scanned photo with a better version 21-Jul-21 (DeNoise AI).

Named: "Juan de Homedes".

This aircraft was delivered to ILFC International Lease Finance Corporation and leased to Air Malta as 9H-ABR in Mar-93.

It was returned to the lessor in Oct-05, sold to Boeing Capital and leased to Norwegian Air Shuttle as LN-KKV in Nov-05. The aircraft was returned to Boeing Capital in Feb-11 and stored at Southend, UK.

In Apr-11 it was leased to Eastok Avia (Tajikistan) as EY-555. It was sub-leased to Somon Air a few days later. It appears to have been withdrawn from service and stored at Dushanbe, Tajikistan in Mar-20 due to the COVID-19 Pandemic. Still stored as of 21-Jul-21. As it's now 28 years old, it's possible it's been permanently retired. Stored, updated 21-Jul-21.

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9H-ABS Boeing 737-3Y5 Air Malta MAN 21MAY97

N 8 B 1.4K C 0 E May 21, 1997 F Jan 14, 2018

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Replacing an earlier scanned photo with a better version 14-Jan-18.

This aircraft was delivered to Air Malta as 9H-ABS in Apr-93. It was sold to ILFC International Lease Finance Corporation in Jul-02 and leased back to Air Malta. It was wet-leased to Air New Zealand between Jan/Apr-03 and was returned to the lessor in Nov-05. The aircraft was sold to Boeing Capital Leasing as EI-DNH in Dec-05 and leased to Air Union/Kras Air (Russia) in Jan-06. Kras Air ceased operations in Nov-08, the aircraft was repossessed by Boeing Capital and stored at Moscow-Domodedovo. In Aug-10 it was leased to Atlant-Soyuz Airlines, they were renamed Moscow Airlines in Sep-10. Unfortunately, they too ceased operations in Jan-11 and the aircraft was returned to the lessor and stored at Goodyear, AZ, USA. It was re-registered N413BC the following month and remained stored until Dec-11 when it it was transferred to Bank of Utah [owner trustee) and moved to Miami for freighter conversion with a main deck cargo door. On completion in Mar-12 the aircraft was leased to Cargo Air (Bulgaria) as LZ-CGQ. Current (Jan-18).

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9H-ADH 1 B737-33A Air Malta MAN 04APR99

N 1 B 330 C 0 E Sep 25, 2011 F Sep 25, 2011

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First flown with the Boeing test registration N1787B, this aircraft was delivered to AWAS Ansett Worldwide Aviation Services and leased to Air Malta as 9H-ADH in Mar-98.

It was wet-leased to Azzurra Air (Italy) between Nov-99 / Mar-00, and again between Dec-00 & the end of Mar-01. It was returned to AWAS in Feb-08 and leased to Air New Zealand as ZK-NGP the following month.

The aircraft was withdrawn from service in Aug-14 and stored at Christchurch, New Zealand. It was returned to the lessor in Oct-14 and stored at Goodyear, AZ, USA. It was re-registered N175CR in Mar-15 and remained stored.

It was sold to another lessor in Apr-15 and ferried to Tampa, FL, USA for freighter conversion. Conversion was completed in Sep-15 and the aircraft was leased to Texel Air (Bahrain) as A9C-APC a few days later.

The aircraft is said to have been transferred to Texel Air Australasia, based in New Zealand, in Mar-23. However I'm unable to find a New Zealand registration for it (they have two B737-800(F)'s in service, ZK-TXA and ZK-TXE) and I can only assume it's stored somewhere. There is no record on FR24 of flights by A9C-APC in the last 12 months. Updated 18-Jan-24.