Replacing an earlier scanned photo with a better version 11-Nov-21 (DeNoise AI).
Named: "City of Thessaloniki"
This aircraft 'got around a bit'. It was delivered to Air-Berlin as D-ABAG in Mar-94. It was sold to a lessor on delivery and leased back to Air-Berlin. It was returned to the lessor in May-99 and leased to Macedonian Airlines as SX-BMB the same day.
Macedonian was absorbed back into Olympic Airlines in Dec-03 and the aircraft was returned to the lessor in May-04. It was leased to Futura International Airways (Spain) as EC-IZG in Jun-04.
It was wet-leased to Jetairfly.com (TUI Airlines Belgium) in May-08 for the summer season. However, Futura ceased operations 0n 08-Sep-08 and the aircraft was returned to Futura and the lessor the following day and initially stored at Brussels.
It was re-registered N213TH in Nov-08 and remained stored until it was leased to RAK Airways (Ras al Khaimah, UAE) as A6-ESE in Sep-10. It was sub-leased to East Air in Feb-11 with just 'Airways.com' titles and transferred to Eastern Sky Jets around Jun-11.
The aircraft was returned to the lessor, withdrawn from service and stored at Ras al Khaimah in late 2014. In Feb-16 it was leased to Air Bucharest for three months as YR-SKI, returned to Wells Fargo Bank Northwest in Apr-16 and stored at Dothan, AL, USA.
It was re-registered N120WF in May-16 and was converted to freighter configuration by Nov-16 before being ferried to Montpelier, France in Dec-16 and stored. It was moved to Lasham UK in Apr-17 and moved again to, back across the Atlantic to Everett, WA, USA in May-17 and then for further storage at Moses Lake, WA, USA.
The aircraft was sold to RVL Aviation in Feb-18 and travelled across the Atlantic again, back to Montpelier. At the end of Feb-18 it moved to St Athan, Wales, UK where it was stored again. It was sold to International Spray Solutions Ltd as G-CKUZ in Apr-18 and remained stored. The aircraft was leased to West Atlantic Airlines UK in Dec-19. Current, updated 08-Dec-24.
