UPDATED 21 June 2024
Crossing the Tasman today, the 17th of June 2024, is Texel Air's latest Boeing 737-800 freighter, ZK-TXD operating as TEXEL 99. This is the third of Texel's 737 freighters to wear Team Global Express colours joining ZK-TXB and ZK-TXC for the Australian contract.
The aircraft's history starts in 2007. Boeing 737-8FH(WLH) was delivered to UK airline XL Airways as G-XLAK in January 2007. Late that year it went to Turkey and saw service from December 2008 with AnadoluJet as TC-JHI and from January 2013 with Sun Express as TC-SAH. In June 2019 it went to Airzena Georgian Airways as 4L-TGC and then to Aircompany Armenia as EK-73792 in November 2021 and it was operated by them until May 2022. It received an Austrian registration OK-SBK with Alterna Capital Partners in June 2022 and was stored in Prague until July 2023 when it was purchased by Chisholm Enterprises it who registered it as N736CE and who flew it to Guangzhou for freighter conversion.
In the early hours of the 24th of May 2024 it departed Guangzhou for Hamilton flying via Port Moresby and Auckland, arriving in Hamilton about 7.30pm. It was registered to Texel Air Ltd, Auckland, as ZK-TXD on 5 June 2024. Texel Air will operated it to fly services for Team Global Express in Australia.
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| In Team Global Express colours, Texel Air's Boeing 737-800F ZK-TXD being towed across the airport from Hamilton Aero Maintenance to the terminal at Hamilton on 17 June 2024. The aircraft departed for Brisbane just after 2.30pm |
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ZK-TXD entered service in Australia on the 21st of June 2024 flying Brisbane to Melbourne as TFX601.
My profile of the development of Texel Air has been updated and can be found here
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