Wednesday, 25 October 2017

Urumqi Air 737 B-1325 first pics painted

Urumqi Air 737-86W B-1325 msn 60170/6649 seen here at Boeing Field, Oct 25, out on a test flight as BOE926.  Leased from CDB Aviation.

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Photo credit: Jeff Berry

Boeing 737-8LP(WL) Urumqi Air B-1325 LN6649
Photo credit: Huy Do

WestJet Airlines 737 C-GOCD first flight & pics

WestJet Airlines 737-8CT C-GOCD msn 40832/6665 first flight from Renton, Oct 25, flying as BOE366 with 4 people on board.  Hex code C069D8.

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Photo credit: Jeff Berry

Hainan Airlines 737 B-1498 delivery & pics

Hainan Airlines 737-86N B-1498 msn 43427/6637 flew away on delivery Oct 25-28, Boeing Field-Honolulu-Guam-Haikou flying as CHH1498 with 11 people on board.  Leased from GECAS.

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Photo credit: Jeff Berry

China Southern Airlines 737 B-1406 delivery

China Southern Airlines 737-81B B-1406 msn 63246/6642 flew away on delivery Oct 25-28, Boeing Field-Honolulu-Majuro-Saipan-Guangzhou-Zhengzhou flying as CSN1406.

Tuesday, 24 October 2017

WestJet Airlines 737-8 C-GXAX delivery & pics

WestJet Airlines 737-8 C-GXAX msn 60512/6528 flew away on delivery Oct 24, Boeing Field-Calgary flying as WJA8964.

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Photo credit: Huy Do

XiamenAir 737 B-1305 first pic painted

XiamenAir 737-85C B-1305 msn 63684/6650 seen here at Boeing Field, Oct 24, just arriving back from painting at Paine Field.

Boeing 737-85C(WL) Xiamen Airlines B-1305 LN6650
Photo credit: Huy Do

American Airlines 737 N355PU first flight

American Airlines 737-823 N355PU msn 33348/6660 first flight from Renton, Oct 24, flying as BOE151 with 4 people on board.  Hex code A3F8B8.


Southwest Airlines 737 N8551Q delivery & pics

Southwest Airlines 737-8H4 N8551Q msn 36951/6644 flew away on delivery Oct 24, Boeing Field-Paine Field flying as SWA8701.

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Photo credit: Jeff Berry

Hainan Airlines 737-8 B-1390 first flight & pic

Hainan Airlines 737-8 B-1390 msn 62183/6616 first flight from Renton, Oct 24, flying as BOE616 with 5 people on board.  Hex code A63C98.

Boeing 737 MAX 8 Hainan Airlines N5002K LN6616
Photo credit: Huy Do

Kunming Airlines 737 B-1329 first pics painted

Kunming Airlines 737-7LY B-1329 msn 44395/6646 seen here at Boeing Field, Oct 24, out on another test flight as BOE667.  Leased from Bank of Communications Leasing.

B-1329 B-1329 B-1329
Photo credit: Jeff Berry

Boeing 737-7LY(WL) Kunming Airlines B-1329 LN6646
Photo credit: Huy Do

RAAF P-8A A47-005 delivery & pics

Royal Australian Air Force P-8A (737-8FV) A47-005 msn 63179/6328 flew away on delivery Oct 24, Boeing Field-Jacksonville NAS with 3 people on board flying as VVRC005.

Flew local missions from Jacksonville on Oct 28, Nov 7 and Nov 8 all as VVLL821 then ferried to Australia, Nov 10-14 as ASY212 routing Jacksonville NAS-Tinker AFB-Hickam AFB-Noumea-Edinburgh AFB.

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Photo credit: Jeff Berry

RAAF Boeing -P8 A47-005
Photo credit: Royal Scott King

China Eastern Airlines 737 B-1318 first pics painted

China Eastern Airlines 737-89P B-1318 msn 63764/6647 seen here at Boeing Field, Oct 24, out on a test flight as BOE589.  Leased from Pembroke Capital.

B-1318 B-1318
Photo credit: Jeff Berry

Boeing 737-89P(WL) China Eastern Airlines B-1318 LN6647
Photo credit: Huy Do

Monday, 23 October 2017

Pobeda Airlines 737 VP-BPJ delivery

Pobeda Airlines 737-8AL VP-BPJ msn 61800/6636 flew away on delivery Oct 23-24, Boeing Field-Keflavik-Belgrade flying using reg as callsign.  Continued Nov 1-2, Belgrade-Moscow VKO.  Leased from BOC Aviation.

VP-BPJ
Photo credit: Jeff Berry (BFI, Oct 16)

Ryanair 737 EI-GDH delivery

Ryanair 737-8AS EI-GDH msn 44805/6640 flew away on delivery Oct 23-24, Boeing Field-Dublin flying as RYR800H.

Ex 9 Air 737 N893BA update & pics

Ex 9 Air 737-86X B-7998 msn 61358/6370 registered to Boeing Company on Oct 20 as N893BA and flew away Oct 23-24, Boeing Field-Baltimore flying using reg as callsign.  Called in at Grant County for 1 approach/touch & go enroute.  Continued Oct 24-25 Baltimore-Dinard, again as N893BA.  New hex code AC5093.  Still in full 9 Air livery.

The new customer/owner is the Polish Government.  This is the 1st of 3 frames with the 2nd and 3rd frames due from the factory in early 2018.

N893BA
Photo credit: Jeff Berry (BFI, Oct 16)

Seen here at Baltimore on Oct 24 :

N893BA
Photo credit: Tony Storck

And one of it upon its arrival at a foggy Dinard on Oct 25 :

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Photo credit: L1nny

Pics of it painted in Polish Government colors here.

Pobeda Airlines 737 VP-BPL first flight

Pobeda Airlines 737-8AL VP-BPL msn 61789/6662 first flight from Renton, Oct 23, flying as BOE617.  Hex code 42436B.  Leased from BOC Aviation.  Flew to Spokane for painting.

Southwest Airlines 737 N8551Q first pics painted

Southwest Airlines 737-8H4 N8551Q msn 36951/6644 seen here at Boeing Field, Oct 23, returning from a test flight as BOE984.

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Photo credit: Jeff Berry

Sunday, 22 October 2017

Avianca 787 N795AV first flight & pic

Avianca 787-8 N795AV msn 39407/625 first flight from Paine Field, Oct 22, flying as BOE676.  Hex code AACAAC.

Avianca Boeing 787-8 N795AV
Photo credit: Royal Scott King

Another pic of it here.

Jen Schuld got a pic of it too, here.

Saturday, 21 October 2017

Donghai Airlines 737 B-7300 first flight

Donghai Airlines 737-83Z B-7300 msn 61278/6656 first flight from Renton, Oct 21, flying as BOE583.  Hex code 78123E.

Friday, 20 October 2017

EgyptAir 737 SU-GEM delivery

EgyptAir 737-866 SU-GEM msn 63805/6614 flew away on delivery Oct 20-21, Boeing Field-Keflavik-Cairo flying as MSR3330.  Leased from Dubai Aerospace Enterprise.