Porto, Portugal - May 2024
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Porto, Portugal - May 2024
Porto, Portugal - May 2024
Boeing 737-7GJ BBJ T7-PAL moves off the ramp at a damp Porto Airport on the afternoon of Friday 22nd September 2023. The specially configured Boeing 737 is sporting the branding of PAL Flight however is registered to "Arab Wings Company" of Jordan, though the aircraft has a San Marino registration.
The aircraft was purpose built as a Boeing Buisness Jet in November 2011 and was delivered to Nanshan Jet Co Ltd of Yantai in Shandong, China in July 2013 having spent a while as a "white tail", under Nanshan it was registered as B-5686. It moved to Arab Wings Company in January 2018 and has been with the opertor ever since.
These were very quick shots grabbed from the steps at the rear of my A320 and I had to be quick as the passenger bus was approaching...
© Phil Cribbin 2023
Boeing 737-7GJ BBJ T7-PAL moves off the ramp at a damp Porto Airport on the afternoon of Friday 22nd September 2023. The specially configured Boeing 737 is sporting the branding of PAL Flight however is registered to "Arab Wings Company" of Jordan, though the aircraft has a San Marino registration.
The aircraft was purpose built as a Boeing Buisness Jet in November 2011 and was delivered to Nanshan Jet Co Ltd of Yantai in Shandong, China in July 2013 having spent a while as a "white tail", under Nanshan it was registered as B-5686. It moved to Arab Wings Company in January 2018 and has been with the opertor ever since.
These were very quick shots grabbed from the steps at the rear of my A320 and I had to be quick as the passenger bus was approaching...
© Phil Cribbin 2023
Smartwings Boeing 737-800 OK-TVX is seen on the ground at Porto Airport on the morning of Friday 25th August 2023. Delivered to the original Lauda Air in April 2005 as OE-LNR this aircraft would be absorbed into the Austrian Airlines fleet when the two companies merged in 2010. It would join Travel Service in April 2013 as OK-TVX and make annual winter leases to Spicejet of India until 2017 when it was acquired by Smartwings. Sunwing Airlines of Canada picked the aircraft up for the winter of 2019 with it returning to Smartwings in March 2020 where it has remained ever since.
I had to crop this one a fair bit as the horizontal stabiliser of my A320 was taking up the top of the frame, taken from the rear steps of my own aircraft earlier today as a perk of the job ;)
© Phil Cribbin 2023
Porto, Portugal - February 2023
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Our ride from ZRH that day...
First flight: June 21, 1995...(c/n 541)
11/07/1995 Swissair HB-IOF
31/03/2002 Swiss International Airlines HB-IOF stored at ZRH 04/2002
08/09/2004 Turkish Airlines TC-JMB
22/04/2007 Swiss International Airlines HB-IOF
Our ride back home
The aircraft had been reactivated only 5 days earlier and had been ferried Ammann - ZRH as LX5201 on May 23...
First flight: May 13, 1997...(c/n 701)
30/06/1997 Swissair HB-IJQ
31/03/2002 Swiss International Airlines HB-IJQ named 'Locarno' (baptized in August 2008)
From the Porto Airport (Aeroporto Francisco Sa Carneiro) (OPO) timetable - April 2006.
From the Porto Airport (Aeroporto Francisco Sa Carneiro) (OPO) timetable - April 2006.