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Old 22nd Jul 2007, 18:44
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Earl
 
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Not sure of the registration number GTTS.
But this aircraft had the small 522 engines.
This A/D shut this company down.
When this ended August of last year only 1 passenger aircraft was flying, the other was being canned for spare parts.
A maint ground engineer commented to me that they needed around 100,000. usd to get the other pax aircraft back in the air, not to mention the 230,000 usd per aircraft needed for the engine A/D for all three.
I am sure of this as the freighter was the only aircraft that any outside buyers or operators was interested in, but none had the funds to buy the kit and program from RR.
Even while operating this freighter was being operated by a third party other than Thaisky even though on their own registration.

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