VH-HYL. Airbus A320-211. c/n 229.
First flown as F-WWIN - June 28, 1991 Delivery was deferred and was stored until reactivated at Toulouse - February 19, 1992 Entered onto the Australian Aircraft Register as VH-HYL - March 5, 1992 Registered to Ansett Transport Industries (Operations) Pty Ltd Aircraft fitted 24 First Class and 108 Economy Class seats but variable Accepted by Ansett at Toulouse - April 8, 1992 Departed Toulouse, France on delivery flight to Australia - April 8, 1992 Arrived Brisbane at conclusion of delivery flight - April 11, 1992 Delivery route: Toulouse-Instanbul-Dubai-Bngkok-Darwin-Brisbane Flight crew: Capts W. Hanrahan, J, Swift; LAMEs K. Lewis, P. Dunning Operated first revenue service Brisbane-Sydney as AN9 - April 30, 1992 Sold to Ansett Worldwide and leased back - June 28, 2001 Operated last revenue service Sydney-Brisbane as AN148 - September 13, 2001 Ansett ceased operations due to bankruptcy - September 13, 2001 Re-entered Ansett service under administration Brisbane-Sydney as AN275 - October 7, 2001 Operated final revenue service Sydney-Melbourne as AN757 - November 11, 2001 Returned to Ansett Worldwide by the Ansett Administrators Test flown at Melbourne in an all-white livery after D-check as AN4089 - April 14, 2002 Ansett Engineering quote the aircraft had flown 32,784 hours with 17,179 cycles - June 27, 2002 Test flown at Melbourne as AN4089 - August 8, 2002 Departed Melbourne on ferry flight to Lufthansa Technik, Schonefeld, Germany as AN41 - August 9, 2002 Arrived Schonefeld at conclusion of ferry flight for Ansett Worldwide - August 11, 2002 Ferry route: Melbourne-Perth-Cocos Island-Male-Bahrain-Athens-Schonefeld Flight crew: Capts J. Swift, M. Ranson; Engineers E. Viola, D. Parry Cancelled from the Australian Aircraft Register - September 13, 2002 Sold to Wilmington Trust Co, Wilmington, DE, USA - September 17, 2002 Entered onto the U.S. Aircraft Register as N229AN Ferried Berlin-Fargo-Mojave for continued storage - January 10-11, 2003 Leased to Siberia Airlines via Ansett Worldwide - July 2003 Cancelled from the U.S. Aircraft Register - July 31, 2003 Entered onto the Armenian Aircraft Register as EK32008 Sub-leased to Armavia, Yereva, Armenia Observed at Frankfurt in all-white livery with Armenian Airlines titles - September 27, 2003 Returned to Armavia Aircraft named 'Aram Khachatryan' (Armenian Minister of Finance) Current with Armavia - November 2008 |
VH-HYH. Ansett Australia - in the 'Union Jack' livery at Brisbane Airport, May 1992. |
VH-HYL. Ansett Australia - in the 'Union Jack' livery at Perth Airport, December 1995. |
VH-HYL. Ansett Australia - in the 'Starmark' livery at Melbourne Airport, September 1997. |
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EK-32008. Armavia - in the original blue livery at unknown airport, October 2003. |
EK-32008. Armavia - in the new livery at Paris Orly Airport, November 2004. |
EK-32008. Armavia - in the new livery at Paris Orly Airport, November 2004. |
EK-32008. Armavia - in the new livery at Paris Orly Airport,
October 2005. |
EK-32008. Armavia - in the revised livery at Paris Orly Airport, July 2009. |
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