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A313-Hapag-D-APOM-203

Hapag-Lloyd Flug (between 2005 and 2007 also marketed as Hapagfly) was a German leisure airline that was originally founded in 1972 by Hapag-Lloyd and later became a subsidiary of TUI Group. It operated scheduled and charter passenger flights mainly to holiday resorts in Europe. on April 03rd, 2007 the company became TUI fly Deutschland. Hapag Lloyd operated 5 Airbus A.310-200s and 8 of the series -300.

D-APOM (c/n 448 series 304) was an aircraft delivered to Wardair Canada in March 1988 as C-GDWD. In January 1990 the company merged into Canadian Airlines International and from August 1991 the plane was sold to leasing Company Polaris for Kuwait Airways use as A6-KUB. Returned to the lessor in August 1993, to be immediately leased to Hapag-Lloyd as D-APOM. The aircraft returned to the lessor in May 1998 and remained stored at Lemwerder until May 1998 when it was leased to Ryal Airlines as C-GRYA, company merged into Canada 3000 in January 2001. Canada 3000 ceasd operation in November 2001 and the plane has been stored again until May 2003 when it started a new lease with SATA International as CS-TKI. During SATA years, the plane was sub-leased to White Airways and Air Niugini. The plane was eventually retired in May 2012 and sold for scrapping.

Slide taken at ACE in March 1998. The plane wears a not standard white fuselage color scheme with regular orange tail.

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Uploaded on February 11, 2021