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Varig B777's At AFW

EXMEMWIDGET From United States of America, joined Jan 2004, 188 posts, RR: 0
Posted (6 years 4 months 6 days 15 hours ago) and read 1631 times:

Does any know the status of the 3 Varig B-777's at AA's hanger at AFW. They have not moved in a couple of weeks.

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FRAspotter From United States of America, joined May 2004, 2316 posts, RR: 10
Reply 1, posted (6 years 4 months 6 days 13 hours ago) and read 1466 times:

Maybe they are under mainenance for a new customer? If they were in storage, wouldn't they otherwise be out in the desert?

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Donzilasse From United States of America, joined Jun 2004, 237 posts, RR: 0
Reply 2, posted (6 years 4 months 6 days 12 hours ago) and read 1427 times:

Which registration do these three have?
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AF086 From France, joined Jan 2007, 1032 posts, RR: 10
Reply 3, posted (6 years 4 months 6 days 12 hours ago) and read 1390 times:

Quoting Donzilasse (Reply 2):
Which registration do these three have?

My guess would be:

N767UA - 777-222 (ex:PP-VRI)
N770UA - 777-222 (ex:PP-VRJ)
N207UA - 777-222/ER (ex:PP-VRE)

Still stored at VEM/GIG two triple-7s: PP-VRB (777-2Q8/ER) and PP-VRF (777-222/ER)

N702BA (777-236 - ex: PP-VRC) AFAIK is stored at Marana and N703BA (777-236 - ex: PP-VRD) is being scrapped.

[Edited 2007-01-16 23:43:52]

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AbirdA From United States of America, joined Jul 2005, 253 posts, RR: 6
Reply 4, posted (6 years 4 months 6 days 3 hours ago) and read 1180 times:

I have no idea what they're doing at AFW, and I hope someone can shed some more light. But I will add that there were two of them sitting on the tarmac outside AA's gigantic facility when i passed by on December 22 and there were still two on the tarmac when i passed by again on January 4, just in different positions.

I always hope I'll see an AA 777 touching down or taking off whenever i pass by AFW!

KC135TopBoom From United States of America, joined Jan 2005, 11708 posts, RR: 52
Reply 5, posted (6 years 4 months 6 days 3 hours ago) and read 1172 times:

Is AA doing heavy maintenance on these B-777s? Perhaps they have not been returned pending payment for the work AA did?

AFW is not usually used for storage, as there are ramp parking fees that somone will have to pay.

EXMEMWIDGET From United States of America, joined Jan 2004, 188 posts, RR: 0
Reply 6, posted (6 years 4 months 5 days 10 hours ago) and read 955 times:

I can't get close enough to get regs. Today, January 17, there were only two sitting outside. The hanger doors were closed. Maybe they moved one inside.

AF086 From France, joined Jan 2007, 1032 posts, RR: 10
Reply 7, posted (6 years 4 months 5 days 10 hours ago) and read 928 times:

Quoting KC135TopBoom (Reply 5):
as there are ramp parking fees that somone will have to pay.

I think Bristol Associates will take care of that since it's their plane. VARIG has nothing more to do with those frames.

I guess that when PP-VRF (the last 777-222/ER (sn 30214/254), ex: N208UA, also owned by Bristol) leaves VEM/GIG it might join it's brothers at AFW.

Perhaps they're going to be checked there before going to their next operator (any ideas?).

[Edited 2007-01-18 01:38:46]

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