While preparing another post some time ago I came across a New Zealand registered Boeing 737 I had never heard of, Boeing 737-2H6 ZK-JJD which was on the New Zealand register for 10 weeks in 1998.
ZK-JJD/1 Boeing 737-2H6 Line No.
559 c/n 21732
9M-MBJ 28/02/1979 First flight
19/03/1979 Malaysian Airline System, Kuala Lumpur,
Malaysia
05/04/1991 International Lease Finance Corp,
California, USA
05/04/1991 Malaysian Airline System, Kuala Lumpur,
Malaysia...leased
00/07/1993 Registration cancelled
PK-IJF 19/07/1993 Bouraq Indonesia Airlines, Jakarta,
Indonesia
00/07/1998 Registration cancelled
ZK-JJD 10/07/1998 Air New Zealand Ltd, Auckland
31/07/1998 Air New Zealand Engineering Services,
Christchurch
29/09/1998 Registration cancelled
3B-LXM 29/09/1998 Air Gabon, Libreville, Gabon
00/00/2000 Registration cancelled
PK-IJO 05/12/2000 Bouraq Indonesia Airlines, Jakarta, Indonesia
00/00/2001 Registration cancelled
PK-ALH 00/09/2001 Star Air, Juanda, Indonesia
00/00/2002 Registration cancelled
PK-KJM 18/09/2002 Bali International Air Service, Jakarta, Indonesia
00/00/2004 Registration cancelled
PK-RIN 00/09/2004 Mandala Airlines, Soekarno, Indonesia
00/01/2006 Withdrawn from use and stored Jakarta,
Indonesia
I had never heard of this aircraft so I contacted ex-Air New Zealand's John Mounce who was able to fill me in with the details.
John writes, Here she is. It was a deal arranged with one of the company Lessors........Indigo Aviation (Sweden) and was to facilitate maintenance on the aircraft prior to going to Air Gabon. Norm Taylor handled it for Indigo and pulled in some favours to make it happen. Air New Zealand was the only legal entity recognised by CAA (rather than Air New Zealand Engineering Services) but it was never intended to be more than a project for enabling maintenance.
Here is the aircraft on delivery.........Norm was on the flight and took this image.
Beyond that I have memory fade!
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