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Saturday, May 3, 2014

Nostalgia Part Six

Another Boeing 737-200 variant to visit NZ in the 1990's was Solomon Airlines H4-SAL -2T5 (22395).  First flown in December 1980, it started its flying career with Orion Airways as G-BHVG.  It then moved to Canada with Eastern Provincial Airways as C-GEPM.  It was later operated by CP Air and Canadian Airlines International before heading to Malaysia Airlines as 9M-MBO in May 1989.  During June 1990 the aircraft joined the Solomon Airlines fleet and was christened "Guadacanal".  During its time with Solomon it also flew services on behalf of Royal Tongan hence the small titles as seen in this shot.

In 1992 ILFC registered the aircraft N501NG and it moved to NICA Nicaraguenese de Aviacion then subleased to LACSA Costa Rica.  Like ZK-NAR, it ended up in Kyrgystan's Phoenix Aviation as EX-048 and was last noted as A6-PHD with AVE.com.
At Auckland January 1991. 


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