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Old 19th Dec 2013, 05:23
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World Airways, Philippine Airlines,El Al Israel Airlines, Avianca, AirAsia, Garuda Indonesia ,SonAir ,BCC,Boeing Capital Corporation (BCC),AV Cargo Airlines
It never 'belonged' to: Philippine Airlines,El Al Israel Airlines, Avianca, AirAsia, Garuda Indonesia, SonAir.

These were all wet-lease operations with World Airways crews. Son Air was definitely with World cockpit crew, and possibly SonAir cabin crew IIRC.

Delivered to World. Sold to Boeing Capital Corp, and now owned by AV Cargo.

No doubt it has been to some interesting places, but like Dave said, nothing special about 18.1 years.

Check out the history of the early B744s at Lufthansa. D-ABTA/B/C and D-ABVA/B/C/D

They all passed 110,000 hours with impressive daily utilization. LH got every penny invested out of these frames, and continue to do so with the remaining 20 -400s. Fleet peaked at 30 frames and will soon be reduced to 13.
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