As anticipated, virtual airline Air Djibouti is adding a BAe 146 that will operate alongside a Boeing 737-400 wet-leased from VVB Aviation Malta. South African airline Fair Aviation will operate BAe 146-300 ZS-SOR (msn E3155) on an ACMI basis on behalf of Air Djibouti. ZS-SOR had previously been operating for […]
Equatorial Guinea’s Air Annobón has returned BAe 146-300 ZS-SBR (msn E3120) off-lease. She was seen parked at Mahikeng Airport on 17 February. She had operated for Air Annobón since mid 2013, when she had replaced 146-300 ZS-SOR (msn E3155). Her departure leaves former CityJet RJ85 3C-MAA (msn E2365) as the airline’s sole […]
South Africa’s Fair Aviation has acquired a former TNT Airways BAe 146-200QT. OO-TAR (msn E2067) had been withdrawn from use by TNT Airways in the fall of 2011 and parked at its base at Liège airport. On 7 December 2012, she was registered as N146QT to International Air Services Inc […]
Equatorial Guinea’s Air Annobón began service on 25 January with a flight from Malabo to Bata using BAe 146-300 ZS-SOR Palea (msn E3155). The 146 had been delivered in July 2012, but delays in obtaining an AOC prevented an earlier start of service. She did operate some flights on behalf of […]
A second BAe 146 is being prepared for service with Equatorial Guinea’s Air Annobón. The airline is already leasing BAe 146-300 ZS-SOR (msn E3155) from Fair Aviation. SZ-SOR departed Lanseria for Equatorial Guinea on 5 July, but has apparently not yet been able to begin service due to delays in […]
Equatorial Guinea’s Cronos Airlines has repainted one of its BAe 146s in a new color scheme, replacing the anonymous all-white colors in which they have flown hitherto. BAe 146-200 ZS-SOW (msn E2069) was ferried to Johannesburg for repainting. She was rolled out in mid-August in the new scheme, which features […]
Few would have predicted that Equatorial Guinea would one day have not one but two BAe 146 operators. A new airline, Air Annobón, is planning to operate a BAe 146 on domestic operations, joining current BAe 146 operator Cronos Airlines. Like Cronos, Air Annobón is leasing its 146 from a […]
The third BAe 146-300 for Ghanaian airline Starbow was ferried from Bucuresti Baneasa to Southend on 11 May. G-BUHB (msn E3183) had had been stored at Bucuresti’s Baneasa airport since November 2010. She was recently purchased from Falko by Riva Investments for onward lease to Starbow. She had been due […]
Ghanaian airline Starbow has leased BAe 146-300 ZS-SMO (msn E3169) from South Africa’s Fair Aviation. ZS-SMO arrived in Accra in mid-April, with Starbow’s titles and logo applied on top of Fair Aviation’s colors. She will help cover for scheduled maintenance to Starbow’s first two 146s. The airline was to have […]
Fair Aviation‘s BAe 146-300 ZS-SMO (msn E3169) returned to Lanseria in late March at the completion of her lease to the Comoros Islands’ Inter Iles Air. She had been leased to the Moroni-based airline since August 2011.
