VH-PQA Boeing 757-225PCF

This aircraft was ordered new by Eastern Airlines Inc - ?

Rolled off the Boeing production line at Seattle (Washington) - August 23, 1985

First flown using the Boeing test registration - November 08, 1985

Entered onto the United States Aircraft Register as N522EA - ?

Accepted by Eastern Airlines Inc at Seattle (Boeing Field, Washington) - December 05, 1985

Operated its first revenue service - ?

Sold to Wilmington Trust Company, Wilmington, Delaware - December 16, 1985

Registered to Wilmington Trust Company, Wilmington, Delaware

Leased Eastern Airlines as the registered operator

Eastern Airlines ceased operations - January 18, 1991

The aircraft was returned to the Lessor - March 18, 1991

It was observed stored at Miami (Florida) - April 07, 1991

Leased to Air 2000 as the registered operator - October 22, 1991

Ferried Bangor (Wales) - London (Luton, England) in the 'Eastern' livery as EAL7820 - October 23, 1991

Extensive modification work and refurbishment was then undertaken at Luton (England)

It was observed at London (Luton) in the Air 2000 livery as 'G-OOOW' - January 19, 1992

Entered onto the British Aircraft Register as G-OOOW (CofR G-OOOW/R1) - January 20, 1992

Registered to GATX Leasing Corporation

Leased to Air 2000 as the registered operator

Operated final Air 2000 revenue service Faro (Portugal) - Manchester (England) as AMM225 - November 03, 2001

Ferried Manchester (England) - Bristol (Filton, England) for storage - November 04, 2001

Ferried Bristol (Filton, England) - Manchester (England) for maintenance as AMM757P - April 14, 2002

Returned to GATX Leasing Corporation at the end of the lease - May 15, 2002

Ferried Manchester (England) - Norwich (England) for repainting as AMM757M - May 17, 2002

Ferried Norwich - Southend (England) in an 'all-white' livery for storage as AMM757M - May 21, 2002

Ferried Southend (England) - Manston (England) as AMM757P - September 12, 2002

Cancelled from the British Aircraft Register - September 27, 2002

Entered onto the Icelandic Aircraft Register as TF-ARE - September 27, 2002

Leased to Air Atlanta Icelandic as the registered operator - September 27, 2002

It was observed at Manston (England) as 'TF-ARE' in an 'all-white' livery without titles - November 05, 2002

Departed Manston (England) on the ferry flight to the United States as ABD38P - December 10, 2002

Arrived Marana (Arizona) on completion of the ferry flight for maintenance and repainting - December 10, 2002

Ferry route: Manston (England) - Bangor (Wales) - Marana (Arizona)

It was observed at Marana (Arizona) in an 'all-white' livery as 'TF-ARE' - January 27, 2003

Ferried Marana - Bangor in the basic Exel Airways livery with Air Atlanta Icelandic titles as ADB38P - March 26, 2003

Ferried Bangor (Wales) - Keflavik (Iceland) - Manston (England) as ADB39P - April 03, 2003

Sub-leased to Excel Airways - April 2003

It was observed at Manchester (England) in the basic 'Excel' livery without titles and logos - April 04, 2003

It was observed at Palma (Spain) with 'excelairways.com' titles - May 10, 2003

Ferried Bangor (Wales) - Marana (Arizona) for maintenance as ABD39P - February 11, 2004

Ferried Marana (Arizona) - Keflavik (Iceland) - Shannon as ABD28P - March 29, 2004

It was observed parked at Shannon in the Excel Airways livery with 'xl.com' tail titles - May 08, 2005

The aircraft was returned to Air Atlanta Icelandic at the end of the sub-lease - November 01, 2005

Ferried London (Gatwick) - Shannon (Ireland) for storage - November 02, 2005

The aircraft had flown 63,991 hours - December 31, 2005

It was observed at Shannon (Ireland) with the registration marks 'G-VKNC' - March 25, 2006

Cancelled from the Icelandic Aircraft Register - March 28, 2006

Entered onto the British Aircraft Register as G-VKNC (CofR G-VKNC/R1) - March 28, 2006

Registered to Aeroturbine Inc

Leased to XL Airways UK Ltd, Crawley as the registered operator

Air Atlanta Europe was merged with Excel Airways UK Ltd - May 01, 2006

It was observed at Skiathos (Greece) in the standard 'Excel Airways' livery - July 28, 2006

Returned to the Lessor at the end of the lease - November 2006

Sold to Wells Fargo Bank Northwest - December 01, 2006

Ferried Manchester (England) - Bangor (Wales) - December 07, 2006

Cancelled from the British Aircraft Register - December 07, 2006

Entered onto the United States Aircraft Register as N315ST - December 11, 2006

This aircraft was converted to a freighter configuration at Jacksonville (Florida) - 2007

Cancelled from the United States Aircraft Register - May 29, 2007

Entered onto the Brazilian Aircraft Register as PR-LGI - May 2007

Leased to Varig Log (Brazil) as the registered operator

Ferried Jacksonville (Florida) - Miami (Florida) - Rio de Janeiro on delivery to Varig Log - May 30, 2007

Operated its last Varig Log cargo service and withdrawn from service - ?

Ferried Sao Paulo (Brazil) - Bogota (Colombia) - Victorville (California) on return to the Lessor - June 28, 2009

Cancelled from the Brazilian Aircraft Register - ?

Entered onto the United States Aircraft Register as N315ST - July 16, 2009

Registered to Wells Fargo Bank Northwest

It was observed stored at Victorville (California) in the 'Varig Log' livery - March 17, 2010

Sold to Aerolease 757 MSN 22611 LLC - March 19, 2010

The registration 'N243AL' was reserved by Aerolease 757 MSN 22611 LLC - April 24, 2010

This registration was not taken up

Test flown Jacksonville - Jacksonville (Florida) - July 27, 2010

The intended lease to Cargobis was not taken up

It was observed stored at Jacksonville (Florida) as N315ST - October 23, 2010

Ferried Jacksonville (Florida) - East Midlands (England) - Bahrain - October 06 - 07, 2011

Cancelled from the United States Aircraft Register - October 11, 2011

Entered onto the Bahrain Aircraft Register as A9C-DHD - October 2011

Leased to DHL International as the registered ioperator

It was observed at Shannon (Ireland) in an 'all-white' livery without titles as 'A9C-DHD' - March 11, 2013

It was observed at Dubai (U.A.E.) in the yellow / red 'DHL' livery - April 19, 2013

Ferried Bahrain - Shannon (Ireland) as DHX901 - June 18, 2017

Ferried Shannon (Ireland) - Halifax (Nova Scotia) as DHX902 - June 19, 2017

Ferried Halifax (Nova Scotia) - San Jose (Costa Rica) for maintenance as DHX903 - June 20, 2017

Ferried San Jose (Costa Rica) - Tucson (Arizona) - Goodyear (Arizona) for storage - December 27, 2017

Departed Goodyear (Arizona) on the ferry flight to New Zealand in an 'all-white' livery - March 10, 2018

Arrived Christchurch (New Zealand) on completion of the ferry flight from the United States - March 12, 2018

Ferry route: Goodyear (Arizona) - Phoenix (Arizona) - Honolulu (Hawaii) - Apia (Samoa) - Christchurch

Sold to Pacific Air Express - March 13, 2018

Cancelled from the Bahrain Aircraft Register - March 14, 2018

Entered onto the Australian Aircraft Register as VH-PQA - March 20, 2018

Registered to Pacific Air Express Pty Limited MSN 22611 Pty Ltd, Banyo, Queensland

Leased to Pacific Air Express Flight Operations Pty Ltd, Brisbane as the registered operator

Observed at Christchurch (New Zealand) in the 'Pacific Air Express' livery - August 28, 2018

Test flown Christchurch - Christchurch as PCF1 - November 03, 2018

Ferried Christchurch (New Zealand) - Brisbane (Queensland) as PCF1 - November 28, 2018

Operated first revenue service Brisbane (Queensland) - Hobart (Tasmania) as PCF2 - November 30, 2018

It operated two charter flights Brisbane - Cairns - Brisbane (Queensland) - February 05, 2019

Both of these flight were flood relief flights for Northern Queensland

Test flown Brisbane - Brisbane (Queensland) as PCF606 - May 23, 2019

Wet-leased to Qantas Cargo - May 27, 2019

Current status - ?