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I am glad to see old "Aldis" flying again! ("Aldis" was the original name of this aircraft when it was with its first operator Icelandair - I saw it in Keflavik on the day it had been delivered to the airline). I once flew on this aircraft when it had its first registration of TF-FIA.
Sabena and Sobelair - gone but never forgotten.
Louise
Maybe we still have a chance to spot this plane in Belgium, because TUI Airlines Belgium uses Futura B734's for extra capacity during the Easter Holidays.
AN124 wrote:Sonny,
Try to see it from the positieve site.
At least the plane is flying where it's made for and not dump into one of the desserts in the US.
I visited the aircraft "boneyards" in Mojave, California, the one at Davis-Monthan US Air Force Base and the Pima Aviation Museum near Tuscon, Arizona. It was sad to see so many aircraft waiting for the smelter. Better to see them flying...
I thought that some airlines had taken some of the desert aircraft? Sometimes I have seen in Airliner World that an aircraft has left the desert to join an airline.
Sabena and Sobelair - gone but never forgotten.
Louise
There are still airlines the get some planes out of the dessert.
For Example all F100 from Germania are from the dessert.
I think the plane you meant was a ex Delta Tristar wich had been in the dessert for 5 or even more years before it departed to Jordania to join the fleet of a cargo operator (don't know the name)
Correct. Many are returned to service and some serve as training mock-ups for service and emergency personnel - but the majority of the airframes end up as a soft drink can or some other light metal object.