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ZK-NZF. British Aerospace 146-300. c/n E3134.
Was also registered as: D-AWBA.
This aircraft was ordered new by Ansett New Zealand - ? It was built at the BAe Woodford plant First flown as 'G-11-134' - July 05, 1989 Ferried Woodford - Cambridge for conversion to Ansett specifications and painting - July 11, 1989 Reregistered as 'G-5-134' - November 30, 1989 Ferried Cambridge - Hatfield on completion of the modification work - November 30, 1989 Accepted by Ansett New Zealand at Hatfield - December 01, 1989 Entered onto the New Zealand Aircraft Register as ZK-NZF - December 01, 1989 Registered to Bilmans Mangement Limited, Christchurch t/a 'Ansett New Zealand' The aircraft was named 'City of Wellington' It was configured to seat 90 passengers Departed Hatfield on the delivery flight to New Zealand - December 05, 1989It arrived at Christchurch on completion of the delivery flight - December 10, 1989 Delivery route: Hatfield - Belgrade - Larnaca - Dubai - Mumbai - Chennai - Phuket - Singapore - Denpasar - Port Headland - Alice Springs - Melbourne - Christchurch Flight crew: Captains D. Palmer, W. Mills, P. Stevenson; Engineer D. Ewers; Liason Officer D. Hastilow and 3 BAe Technical Support crew were also onboard Operated its first Ansett New Zealand revenue service - December 13, 1989 Operated its final Ansett New Zealand revenue service - December 22, 1999 The aircraft was returned to Bilmans Management Limited, Chrishchurch - December 22, 1999 All Ansett New Zealand titling and logos were removed and tail painted blue at Christchurch Ferried Christchurch - Melbourne (Tullamarine) - January 01, 2000 Departed Melbourne (Tullamarine) on the ferry flight to the United Kimgdom - January 04, 2000 It arrived at Woodford on completion of the ferry flight - January 07, 2000 Ferried Woodford - Koln - Bonn Airport on delivery to WDL - January 07, 2000 Cancelled from the New Zealand Aircraft Register - January 11, 2000 Sold by Ansett Aviation Trading to WDL Aviation GmbH, Koln, Germany - January 23, 2000 Entered onto the German Aircraft Register as D-AWBA - March 28, 2000 Entered service with WDL - April 02, 2000 Leased to Air Nostrum (Lineas Aereas del Mediterraneo SA), Valencia, Spain - May 2000 Returned to WDL oat the end of the lease - September 30, 2000 Operated services for Air Berlin GmbH & Co - December 12, 2002 Ferried Koln - Amsterdam for painting in Air Berlin livery - December 12, 2002 Returned to WDL at the end of the lease - April 30, 2004 Leased to Austrian Arrows, Innsbruck, Austria - May 2004 Returned to WDL at the end of the lease - October 31, 2004 Leased to Discovery Aviation, Praha - December 06, 2004 Returned to WDL when Discovery suspended operations - January 04, 2005 It was observed in an all-white livery at Munich Airport - February 2005 Leased to Air France - March 26, 2005 Returned to WDL oat the end of the lease - April 7, 2005 Leased to Air Nostrum to provide additional summer capacity - May 2005 Ferried Koln - Dusseldorf in all-white livery for lease to LTU - November 01, 2006 LTU titles applied to the aircraft Returned to WDL at the end of the lease - July 2007 Returned to service with WDL in all-white livery and without titles It was observed at Koln in an all-white/grey livery with SAS tail logo - January 25, 2008 Leased to SAS Leased to Brussels Airlines - ? Ferried Bonn - Koln - Bruxelles as BEL9902 - June 30, 2016 Operated its first revenue service Bruxelles - Bern as BEL2701 - July 01, 2016 Current with Brussels Airlines |
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ZK-NZF. Ansett New Zealand - 'City of Wellington' in the 'Southern Cross' livery at Auckland Airport, January 1990. (R. N. Smith Collection Copyright Image 0414-234.) |
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ZK-NZF. Ansett New Zealand - 'City of Wellington' in the 'Starmark' livery at Auckland Airport, September 1999. (R. N. Smith Collection Copyright Image 0414-264.) |
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D-AWBA. WDL Air Nostrum - in the standard livery at an unknown airport, October 2000. (R. N. Smith Collection Copyright Image 0414-222.) |
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D-AWBA. WDL Air Nostrum - in the standard livery at an unknown airport, October 2000. (R. N. Smith Collection Copyright Image 0414-122.) |
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D-AWBA. Air Berlin - in the standard livery at an unknown airport, October 2003. (R. N. Smith Collection Copyright Image 0414-121.) |
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D-AWBA. Austrian Arrows - in the standard livery at an unknown airport, July 2004. (R. N. Smith Collection Copyright Image 0414-143.) |
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D-AWBA. Austrian Arrows - in the standard livery at Zurich Airport, July 2004. (R. N. Smith Collection Copyright Image 0414-142.) |
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D-AWBA. LTU - in the standard livery at an unknown airport, November 2006. (R. N. Smith Collection Copyright Image 0414-223.) |
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D-AWBA. SAS Scandinavian Airlines - in the standard livery at an unknown airport, March 2008. (R. N. Smith Collection Copyright Image 0414-373.) |
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D-AWBA. WDL - in the all-white livery at an unknown airport, February 2017. (R. N. Smith Collection Copyright Image 0414-374.) |