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@ Transaero Airlines | RA Russia
• Date : 1990 - 2015
• Codes : UN TSO
• Callsign : Trans soviet
• Web site : www.transaero.ru
• History : Ceased operations 26 oct. 2015

@ Boeing 777 - 200 ER | EI-UNS
• Built by Boeing - Everett [PAE] WA - USA
• Serial number : msn 28514 LN:153
• Type : 777-212ER
• First flight date : 23/07/1998
• Test registration
• Seat configuration : C30 Y293 Seat
• Hex code : 424339
• Engines : 2 x RR Trent 892

@ Operators of the aircraft :
• 07/08/1998 : Singapore Airlines > 9V-SRD
• 02/09/2010 : Transaero Airlines > EI-UNS
• 29/12/2016 : VIM Airlines > VP-BVX
• 10/2017 : Stoed (TVPX) > N284JK

Status Stored

Trans Soviet heavy arriving from DME - Moscow. Transaero operated many widebodies to DXB

EI-UNC Transaero Boeing 767-319ER Manchester 15.09.2015

EI-UNC Transaero Boeing 767-319ER Manchester 15.09.2015

UN B744 on short final to runway 25R at HKIA on a rainy/stormy day, with lots of arrival holding going on

B737 EI-EUY Heathrow

Transaero Boeing 737-81Q at Frankfurt Airport.

Scrapped 11/2019.

Transaero Airlines Boeing 737-86R at Frankfurt Airport.

Scrapped 5/2017.

VP-BYQ Transaero Airlines Boeing 737-524

c/n:- 28919

A planespotting session at Heathrow Airport became part of my London itinerary. My location: near the roundabout of Northern Perimeter and Eastern Perimeter Roads, to catch 27R arrivals.

EI-UNK
Boeing 737-86J
Construction Number: 36119
Line Number: 3750
First Flight: 8 August 2011
Delivery: 23 August 2011, Air Berlin, as D-ABKX
Transferred: 31 August 2011, Transaero, as EI-UNK

Trans Soviet 558 departs Los Angeles for Moscow Vnukovo.

EI-UNW
Boeing 777-222/ER
Construction Number: 30214
Line Number: 254
First Flight: 19 October 1999
Delivery: 12 November 1999, United Airlines, as N208UA
Transfer: 9 December 2004, Varig, as PP-VRF
Returned: 19 June 2007, US Bank, as N208UA
Not Taken Up: Royal Brunei Airlines, as V8-RBV
Transferred: 17 December 2009, Transaero, as EI-UNW

Trans Soviet 558 departs Los Angeles for Moscow Vnukovo.

EI-UNW
Boeing 777-222/ER
Construction Number: 30214
Line Number: 254
First Flight: 19 October 1999
Delivery: 12 November 1999, United Airlines, as N208UA
Transfer: 9 December 2004, Varig, as PP-VRF
Returned: 19 June 2007, US Bank, as N208UA
Not Taken Up: Royal Brunei Airlines, as V8-RBV
Transferred: 17 December 2009, Transaero, as EI-UNW

This is Trans Soviet 557, arriving at Los Angeles from Moscow Vnukovo.

Transaero has used a variety of equipment on this route, and this time it is a 747.

EI-XLL
Boeing 747-412
Construction Number: 28031
Line Number: 1266
First Flight: 2 February 2001
Delivery: 8 February 2001, Singapore Airlines, as 9V-SPN
Stored: 7 January - 25 September 2010, Victorville
Transferred: 6 July 2011, Midair, as N747NP
Transferred: 23 August 2011, Transaero, as EI-XLL

Trans Soviet 557 arrives from Moscow Vnukovo. This flight used to run to/from Moscow Domodedovo but has been switched since late October 2013.

Also for the winter season, equipment is downgauged to a Boeing 767-300, formerly of Air New Zealand.

EI-UNC
Boeing 767-319/ER
Construction Number: 29388
Line Number: 785
First Flight: 17 February 2000
Delivery: 3 April 2000, Air New Zealand, as ZK-NCN, on lease from ILCF
Leased: 6 April 2006, Flyglobespan, as G-CDPT
Subleased: 23 November 2006 - 16 March 2008, Air India
Subleased: 2 November 2008 - 31 January 2009, Garuda Indonesia
Subleased: 2 February 2009 - 10 March 2009, Gabon Airlines
Subleased: 22 March 2009 - 13 May 2009, Air Austral
Subleased: 19 October 2009 - 8 February 2010, Nas Air
Returned: 9 March 2010, to ILFC as N381LF
Leased: 28 August 2010, Transaero as EI-UNC

Delta 984 arrives from New Orleans.

In the distance, Transaero's arrival from Moscow Domodedovo, Trans Soviet 557, can be seen on the downwind.

N365NB, Airbus A319-100 (Delta, ex-Northwest)
EI-UNX, Boeing 777-200ER (Transaero)

Trans Soviet 558 departs for Moscow Domodedovo.

The story of this aircraft is shared with several others at Transaero: this was originally a United aircraft (N208UA), before United gave it up during its bankruptcy reorganization. It went on to fly for Varig as PP-VRF, until Varig's failure in 2007, and initially destined for Royal Brunei Airlines, it was not taken up and instead entered service with Russia's Transaero.

For this aircraft, Los Angeles should be familiar ground from its United days, though with Transaero's Los Angeles service slated to be discontinued shortly, not much longer.

EI-UNW, Boeing 777-200ER

How to spend a long weekend AND avoid the unusually muggy weather in Los Angeles: go nuts with planespotting!

Thanks to Russia's totalitarianism and human rights abuses, anything Russian tends to make my blood boil now, but I still have to post this photo.

Los Angeles ought to be familiar territory for this aircraft, since it had first entered service in 1999 with United under registration N207UA. During United's bankruptcy reorganization, the aircraft left the United fleet, joining Varig in 2004 as PP-VRE until that airline failed. Temporarily re-assuming its old United registration in 2007, it eventually was destined for Royal Brunei Airlines in 2008 as V8-RBU, but was never taken up, and it ended up instead with Transaero, which likes to fly second-hand Boeings. The registration is Irish, which is quite typical for Russian Boeings; Russian Airbuses get Caribbean registrations, and Russia's own RA- registrations usually go only to Russian-built aircraft.

The left side of the aircraft shows the title in Cyrillic alphabet, while the right side displays it in Roman alphabet. The aircraft is returning to Moscow Domodedovo as Trans Soviet 558.

EI-UNX, Boeing 777-200ER