Former Daallo BAe 146 N478NA takes off from Minneapolis-St.Paul on the last leg of her ferry flight to Missoula (Dillon Petrowitz)
Neptune Aviation Services has acquired the BAe 146-200 previously operated by Djibouti’s Daallo Airlines for conversion to air tanker. LZ-DAL (msn E2074) was registered to Neptune as N478NA on 9 November. A flight crew provided by aircraft broker Southern Cross Aviation picked up the 146 from Djibouti on 17 November, and ferried her to the US. She arrived at Neptune’s base in Missoula on 20 November, still wearing full Daallo colors and titles.
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