The last of Blue1‘s Avro RJ85s has left Helsinki. All five of the airline’s remaining RJ85s were parked at Helsinki from early September, after they were withdrawn from service to make way for Boeing 717s. They have since gradually been ferried to the Kemble for continued storage. OH-SAK (msn E2389) […]
Canada’s Conair Group has taken delivery of a former Lufthansa Avro RJ85, probably for conservion to air tanker. N839AC (msn E2270 ex D-AVRI) had flown her last service in December 2010, and then been stored at Köln. After handback maintenance at Stansted in April 2011, she was placed in storage […]
StarPerú‘s BAe 146-200QT OB-1978-P (msn E2114) had the airline’s logo and titles applied on top of the colors of former operator Titan Airways. She is still awaiting her certification from the Peruvian civil aviation authorities, as is former Eurowings series 200 OB-1964-P (msn E2184). Once certified, the freighter will be […]
Citing safety concerns, the Albanian Civil Aviation Authority revoked the operating certificate of Albanian Airlines on 11 November, grounding the airline. Albanian operated three BAe 146s: a series 200 (ZA-MAL, msn E2054) and two series 300s (ZA-MAN, msn E3203, and ZA-MEV, msn E3197). Albanian rejected the allegations of unsafe practices, and […]
Vincent Aviation BAe 146-200 ZK-ECO (msn E2130) is continuing its movie career. The production company of the new Hobbit movies, being directed by Peter Jackson, chartered her to bring hundreds of members of the movie’s cast and crew to Dunedin International Airport. The 146 operated several flights from Wellington and […]
New Ghanaian airline Starbow has added two new destinations. The airline commenced operations on 26 September, with a flight from Accra to Kumasi, which is now operated three times daily. It added a daily flight to Tamale in early November, and then a daily flight to Takoradi on 8 November. […]
Airlink Avro RJ85 ZS-SSH (msn E2285) landed at Johannesburg with its nosewheel retracted on 11 November, suffering minor damage. The crew reported nose gear problems soon after departing Johannesburg Tambo International on flight 4Z 8739 to Pietermaritzburg, and decided to return to Johannesburg. However, they did not get a gear […]
Two more BAe 146-300s have made their way to the fleet of Iran’s Mahan Air in defiance of sanctions on that country. Like series UR-CIL (msn E3149) before them, both are former Aviation Capital Solutions examples who arrived via the Ukraine. G-BSNR (msn E3165) had left Manston for Kiev Borispol […]
Brussels Airlines has denied rumors that it intends to abandon its plan to establish an airline, Korongo Airlines, in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The airline and its partner, Georges Forrest International (GFI), have already invested over EUR11 million in the project. Brussels Airlines will provide two BAe 146-200s and […]
Opposition from Namibia’s national airline, Air Namibia, has stymied Namib Air Express‘s plans to launch low-cost services from Windhoek’s close-in Eros Airport to South African destinations using leased BAe 146s. The original early September start date was pushed back to mid-October, but that date has also fallen through. The airline […]
