Friday, May 27, 2005

Cactus Wings News
27May-2005


News items
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* Ex-Air Canada B737-200 N289TR [22159, formerly C-GNPW] and N291TR [22807, formerly C-GTPW], currently stored at Mojave, have been sold to be parted out.

* Ex-Aloha B737-200 N806AL [21927], currently stored at Goodyear, has been sold to be parted out.

* Ex-Asiana B767-300 N723BC [24797, formerly HL7263], arrived at Victorville 06May-2005. Air-tested 24May-2005 VCV-VCV, and was re-registered 5Y-KQP on 25May-2005. Departed on delivery to Kenya Airways as KQA763 VCV-LHR on 26May-2005.

* Nine ex-Jetsgo MD-80s passed through Tucson this week as the airline officially declared bankruptcy and was liquidated. The routings of each aircraft are as follows:

20May C-FKLO MD83 [53464] YYZ-TUS
20May C-FKLY MD83 [53465] YYZ-TUS
20May C-FKLZ MD83 [53466] YYZ-TUS
25May C-FKLT MD83 [53463] YMX-TUS
25May C-GKLC MD83 [53468] YMX-TUS-MZJ
25May C-GKLN MD83 [53486] YMX-TUS-MZJ
25May C-GKLJ MD83 [53467] YMX-TUS-MZJ
26May C-FRYA MD83 [53488] YMX-TUS
26May C-GKLE MD83 [49943] YMX-TUS-VCV

* Evergreen P-2V N202EV [131502], currently at Marana, has been repainted into Evergreen livery and will be ferried to their museum in McMinnville, OR for permanent display.

* Jetstream 32 N486UE [905], previously at Kingman, has been sold to SARPA (Colombia). It was ferried IGM-MAF on 25May-2005.

Logs
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IWA-
23May N923AU P-3 Aero Union
23May N? Outback Steakhouse airship

Aircraft movements
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20May
C-GKLK MD83 YYZ-VCV
AWE7823 B757 PHX-GYR

21May
WOA905 DC10 DAY-GYR

22May
N427JS D328 ADM-IGM
UAL9926 B733 VCV-LCQ N387UA

23May
AAH100 B73G SAT-ROW

24May
N723BC B763 airtest VCV
BOE777 B772 EDW-VCV-BFI
CAA9320 CRJ2 airtest TUS
CEA9865 JS32 AMA-IGM

25May
C-FKLT MD83 YMX-TUS
C-GKLC MD83 YMX-TUS
C-GKLN MD83 YMX-TUS
C-GKLJ MD83 YMX-TUS

26May
(blkd) FK70 HMO-TUS-PHX
C-FRYA MD83 YMX-TUS*
C-GKLE MD83 YMX-TUS-VCV
C-GKLJ MD83 TUS-MZJ
C-GKLN MD83 TUS-MZJ
N396UA B733 GYR-SJO
N486UE JS31 IGM-MAF
KQA763 B763 VCV-LHR 5Y-KQP
NWA9751 DC93 MSP-MZJ N3322L

* - planned movement
Any tie-ups on the above, or anything I may have missed, would be appreciated. It helps keep my database and the Cactus Wings website up to date. Codes can be translated at The Airline Codes Website:
http://www.airlinecodes.co.uk/

Wednesday, May 25, 2005

Beech C-99
U-235 N235AV seen today in Phoenix in basic Air Vegas colors and Ameriflight titles.