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D-AGEY 1 B737-73S Azzurra Air (Germania) MAN 27OCT01

Replacing an earlier scanned photo with a better version 27-Jul-17 + DeNoise AI 26-Oct-22.

 

Named: "Athens".

 

Leased from/operated by Germania on behalf of Azzurra Air.

 

A very early B737-700 (Line No: 98) first flown with the Boeing test registration N1786B in Aug-98. this aircraft was due for delivery to Pembroke Capital Aircraft Ltd for lease to Transaero Airlines (Russia) as N102UN. However, the lease was cancelled.

 

The aircraft was registered to the Boeing Airplane Company as N102UN in Sep-98 and stored at the Boeing factory at Seattle-Renton, WA, USA. It was finally delivered to Pembroke Capital and leased to SAT Fluggesellschaft (Germany) as D-AGEY in Dec-98.

 

It was immediately sub-leased to Germania. The aircraft was wet-leased to Azzurra Air (Italy) in Mar-01 and returned to Germania in Jan-04. In Mar-04 it was wet-leased to Maersk Air (Denmark). The sub-lease was surrendered in Feb-05 when the aircraft was leased to Maersk direct from SAT Fluggesellschaft and re-registered OY-MLY.

 

Maersk Air was merged into Sterling European Airways in Sep-05 and the aircraft was returned to the lessor in May-06. It was leased to GOL Transportes Aereos (Brazil) as PR-GIF later that month. It returned to the lessor in Apr-16 and was permanently retired at Tucson, AZ, USA. It was last noted still at Tucson in Nov-16, derelict and still in basic GOL livery.

 

Note: The registration D-AGEY was later re-issued on another Germania B737-700 (c/n 28013/682) between Apr-13/Oct-14

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Taken on October 27, 2001