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First flown with the Airbus test registration D-AVYC, this aircraft was delivered to Swissair as HB-IPT in Sep-97. It was sold to a lessor on delivery and leased back to Swissair. Swissair ceased operations on 31-Mar-02 and the aircraft was transferred to Crossair who initially continued limited operations. Crossair was renamed Swiss International Airlines in Jul-02. It was permanently retired at St. Athan, Wales, UK in Mar-20.
HB-IPT Airbus A319-112 [0727] (Swiss International Air Lines) Home~G 02/06/2015.On approach 27L. Broken up St. Athan~G @ 07-2020
Replacing an earlier scanned photo with a better version, plus Topaz DeNoise AI 22-Nov-22.
The owners of Air Plus Comet also owned Aerolineas Argentinas (for a while) and the tie-up can be seen in the Aerolineas Argentinas tail logo and engines.
First flown in Apr-92 with the Airbus test registration F-WWCX, this aircraft was delivered to Balair (Switzerland) as HB-IPM in Apr-92. Balair and CTA merged to form Balair CTA in Jan-93.
It was sold to a lessor in Dec-98 and leased back to Balair CTA. In Sep-99 the aircraft was returned to the lessor and leased to Oman Air as A4O-OD in Nov-99. It was withdrawn from use and stored at Brussels (Belgium) in Sep-01. In Feb-02 it was returned to the lessor as N642KS and remained stored.
In Jul-02 the aircraft was ferried to Lisbon (Portugal) for further storage until it was leased to Air Plus Comet (Spain) as EC-IPT in Jun-03. It was repossessed at New York-JFK in Apr-06 due non-payment of leasing charges.
Air Plus Comet must have paid the bill because the aircraft was re-leased to them in around a week later. The 'Plus' was dropped from the airline name in Jan-07 when it became Air Comet.
The aircraft was returned to the lessor in Jun-09 as N301LF and stored at Rio de Janeiro-Galileo. In Dec-09 it was moved to Miami, Fl, USA and repainted in Biman Bangladesh Airlines livery. It was leased to Biman Bangladesh as S2-AFT in Feb-10.
It was permanently retired at Dhaka, Bangladesh in Aug-12. The aircraft was last noted at Dhaka in Feb-14, slowly being broken up for spares. Updated 25-Nov-22.
Airbus A319-112
cn: 727
ff: 17-09-1997 D-AVYC
26-09-1997 HB-IPT Swissair, "Stadel", config CY126
31-03-2002 HB-IPT Swiss International Air Lines tfd and renamed "Rotsandnollen 2700m" and reconfig CY138
2009 HB-IPT renamed "Grand-Saconnex"
07-03-2020 wfu and std at Zürich
30-03-2020 ferried to EGDX/DGX" St Athan which was probably the final leg after more than 22 years in service.
Seen on final approach to rwy 01R this saturday evening 21 years ago
Scanned from original slide
14-12-2014 - Swiss International Airlines, Airbus A319-112.
Info:
Aircraft was built in 1997 and carried the test reg. D-AVYC. It was delivered to Swissair on 26-9-1997. Later to Swiss on 31-3-2002.
C/n - 727
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