VH-LSI Short 330-200

This aircraft was built by Short Brothers PLC, Belfast, Northern Ireland - 1979

Entered onto the British Aircraft Register as G-BGNA - March 22, 1979

Registered to Short Brothers Ltd, Belfast

The Certificate of Registration (CofR G-BGNA/R1) was issued - May 09, 1979

First flown at Belfast as G-BGNA - May 31, 1979

Leased to Loganair Ltd, Glasgow as the registered operator - September 27, 1979

Registered to Loganair Ltd (CofR G-BGNA/R2) - September 29, 1979

Leased to Manx Airlines Ltd, Ronaldsway, Isle of Man as the registered operator - April 04, 1983

Certificate of Registration (CofR G-BGNA/R3) issued - April 04, 1983

Leased to Air Ecosse Ltd, Aberdeen as the registered operator - November 01, 1983

Certificate of Registration (CofR G-BGNA/R4) issued - November 01, 1983

Withdrawn from use by Air Ecosse - March 03, 1984

Leased to Metropolitan Airways Ltd, London as the registered operator - April 19, 1984

Certificate of Registration (CofR G-BGNA/R5) issued - April 19, 1984

Returned to Short Brothers PLC, Belfast at the end of the lease - October 24, 1985

Registered to Short Brothers PLC, Belfast (CofR G-BGNA/R6) - October 24, 1985

The aircraft was reregistered as G-BTJR (CofR G-BTJR/R1) - November 21, 1985

Registered to Short Brothers PLC, Belfast

Sold to Syd-Aero, Sweden and delivered - September 09, 1986

Entered onto the Swedish Aircraft Register as SE-IVX - ?

Cancelled from the British Aircraft Register - November 11, 1986

Syd-Aero changed its name to AVIA - January 01, 1988

It was withdrawn from use and prepared for return to Short Brothers

Returned to Short Brothers PLC, Belfast - September 12, 1989

Cancelled from the Swedish Aircraft Register - ?

Entered onro the British Aircraft Register as G-BTJR (CofR G-BTJR/R2) - September 12, 1989

Re-registered to Short Brothers PLC, Belfast

Sold to Queensland Pacific Airlines, Australia - December 09, 1989

Ferried to Australia as G-BTJR - December 1989

Cancelled from the British Aircraft Register - December 19, 1989

Entered onto the Australia Aircraft Register as VH-LSI - December 22, 1989

Registered to Queensland Pacific Airlines, Australia

Queensland Pacific Airlines merged with Sunstate Airlines, Brisbane

The aircraft was transferred to Sunstate Airlines - October 25, 1990

Sold to Chartair Alice Springs, Australia and leased to Air North Regional - February 19, 1996

Air North Regional operated the aircraft on behalf of Air Tiwi, Darwin

The aircraft fuselage featured a clever cartoon based livery

Withdrawn from use by Air North Regional and returned to Chartair, Alice Springs - March 1998

Sold to Corporate Air, Billings, Montana, USA - March 1998

Ferried Alice Springs - Sydney (Kingsford Smith) by DBF Aviation Services - March 29, 1998

DBF Aviation Services were contracted to ferry the aircraft from Alice Springs to Billings, Montana

Departed Sydney on the ferry flight to the United States - March 30, 1998

Ferry route: Alice Springs - Sydney - Norfolk Island - Pago Pago - Christmas Island - Hilo

The aircraft was delayed at Hilo for 6 days awaiting favourable winds on the critical sector from Hawaii

to the US West Coast

Cancelled from the Australian Aircraft Register - April 20, 1998

Observed stored at Milwaukee with Australian Registration and still in Air North Regional Livery - June 16, 1998

Sold to Air Cargo Carriers, Milwaukee - November 1998

Entered onto the United States Aircraft Register as N334AC - December 14, 1998

Registered to Air Cargo Carriers, Milwaukee

The US Certificate of Airworthiness (CofA) was granted - December 17, 1998

The aircraft was still operating for Air Cargo Carriers in the Air North Regional 'Cartoon' livery - 2005

The aircraft was repainted into the standard Air Cargo Carriers Corporate livery - ?

The aircraft was destroyed whilst landing at Charleston (Yeager), West Virginia - May 05, 2017

Both pilots were killed

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Cancelled from the United States Aircraft Register - May 10, 2018