Texel's TXF Enters Service

Entering service with Texel Air today, 19 April 2025, was their latest Boeing 737-800 freighter. Boeing 737-86N(BCF) ZK-TXF flew to Christchurch this morning as TEXEL 6101 and will return to Auckland later this afternoon as TEXEL 6102.

The Boeing 737-8U3 entered life as a leased airliner in 2010 being registered to the Indonesian international carrier Garuda Indonesia as PK-GFE on the 20th of August 2010. After being withdrawn from use on the 27th of April 2021, it was recorded being placed on the Isle of Man register as M-ABOL in June 2021 and placed in storage at Tainan in Taiwan. In October 2021 it went to Jinan in China for conversion to a freighter aircraft. Following its conversion it was flown to Kuala Lumpur,  Malaysia using Guernsey-registered ferry registration 2-BPDA and was registered to World Cargo Airlines of Malaysia as 9M-WCI on 26 July 2022. 

Placed again in storage in November 2024 it flew on 28 February 2025 from Jakarta to Denpasar and then on to Auckland arriving on 1 March 2025 using its Guernsey-registered ferry registration 2-BPDA. After clearing customs and refuelling it continued to Hamilton for preparation for service. 

Texel Air's Boeing 737-800 freighter ZK-TXF departing for Christchurch on its first revenue service on 19 April 2025.