VH-HYL. Airbus A320-211. c/n 229.
First flown as F-WWIN - June 28, 1991 Ferried Toulouse-Hamburg-Toulose and stored - August 23, 1991 Entered onto the Australian Aircraft Register as VH-HYL - March 5, 1992 Accepted by Ansett - April 8, 1992 Departed Toulouse, France on delivery flight to Melbourne - April 8, 1992 Routing was - Instanbul-Dubai-Bngkok-Darwin-Brisbane - arriving April 11, 1992 Operated its first Ansett service - AN9 Brisbane-Sydney - April 30, 1992 Sold to Ansett Worldwide and leased back - June 28, 2001 Operated its last commercial service - AN148 Sydney-Brisbane - September 13, 2001 Re-entered Ansett service - under administration - AN275 Brisbane-Sydney - October 7, 2001 Operated its final Ansett Australia service - AN757 Sydney-Melbourne - November 11, 2001 Test flown at Melbourne in an all-white color scheme after D-check as AN4089 - April 14, 2002 Had flown 32,784 hours / 17,179 cycles - June 27, 2002 Test flown at Melbourne as AN4089 - August 8, 2002 Departed Melbourne on delivery flight to Lufthansa Technik, Schonefeld, Germany - August 9, 2002 Routing was - Perth-Cocos Island-Male-Bahrain-Athens-Schonefeld - arriving August 11, 2002 Cancelled from the Australian Aircraft Register - September 13, 2002 Sold to Wilmington Trust Co, USA - becoming N229AN - September 17, 2002 Ferried Berlin-Fargo-Mojave for continued storage - January 10-11, 2003 Leased to Siberia Airlines - becoming EK32008 - via Ansett Worldwide - July 2003 Cancelled from the U.S. Aircraft Register - July 31, 2003 Sub-leased to Armavia, Yereva, Armenia Current |
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VH-HYH. Ansett Australia - in the 'Union Jack' livery at Brisbane Airport, May 1992. (Image 0320-096. P. J. Gates Photograph) |
VH-HYL. Ansett Australia - in the 'Union Jack' livery at Perth Airport, December 1995. (Image 0320-074. R. N. Smith Collection) |
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VH-HYL. Ansett Australia - in the 'Starmark' livery at Melbourne Airport, September 1997. (Image 0320-028. J. Goldfinch Photograph) |
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EK-32008. Armavia - in the original blue livert at unknown airport, October 2003. (Image 0320-058. R. N. Smith Collection) |
EK-32008. Armavia - in the new livery at Paris Orly Airport, January 2005. (Image 0320-059. R. N. Smith Collection) |