spiritair97 From United States of America, joined Jan 2011, 1231 posts, RR: 1 Posted (10 months 1 week 20 hours ago) and read 1028 times:
What's up with this plane? Airfleets shows it as a 737-200 flying for Weststar in Malaysia, but shows additional pics of a WestJet 737-700. Planefinder currently shows it as a -700 operating WJA1140. Which is the real plane? I find it hard to believe that they would be allowed to use a registration on wo planes at the same time and I also question why WJ is
flying an American-Registered aircraft?
IAHFLYR From United States of America, joined Jun 2005, 4719 posts, RR: 25 Reply 1, posted (10 months 1 week 19 hours ago) and read 959 times:
The aircraft is registered to an aircraft trustee company in Texas, just north of Houston.
TACA used to fly a few U.S. registered aircraft years ago IIRC, most likely because prior to 1980 it was owned by a United States company with HQ in New Orleans.
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TC957 From UK - England, joined May 2012, 335 posts, RR: 0 Reply 2, posted (10 months 1 week 19 hours ago) and read 942 times:
B737-2Q8 N413JG landed right in front of me at Farnborough last Wednesday after the day's air show flying display finished. It had Weststar titles on the tail.
Viscount724 From Switzerland, joined Oct 2006, 21465 posts, RR: 24 Reply 3, posted (10 months 1 week 17 hours ago) and read 848 times:
Quoting spiritair97 (Thread starter): I also question why WJ is
flying an American-Registered aircraft?
I think you mean WS. WestJet isn't flying a US-registered aircraft. That aircraft was leased by WS for a while during their early years of service and while with WS it was registered C-FLWJ. Photo below while with WS.
RobK From United Kingdom, joined Sep 2004, 3932 posts, RR: 19 Reply 4, posted (10 months 1 week 17 hours ago) and read 816 times:
Quoting spiritair97 (Thread starter): What's up with this plane? Airfleets shows it as a 737-200 flying for Weststar in Malaysia, but shows additional pics of a WestJet 737-700. Planefinder currently shows it as a -700 operating WJA1140. Which is the real plane? I find it hard to believe that they would be allowed to use a registration on wo planes at the same time and I also question why WJ is
flying an American-Registered aircraft?
Looks like someone hasn't been updating their ICAO24 file....
HarleyDriver From United States of America, joined May 2010, 71 posts, RR: 0 Reply 7, posted (10 months 1 week 10 hours ago) and read 545 times:
Quoting IAHFLYR (Reply 1): TACA used to fly a few U.S. registered aircraft years ago IIRC, most likely because prior to 1980 it was owned by a United States company with HQ in New Orleans.
They still are U.S. registered aircraft. I was in Lima, Peru in December and I think every TACA Airbus that taxied by us had an NxxxTA tail number. If I had to guess they are leased or financed from a U.S. Company. A quick search in the database shows that as well. Looks like there a couple of aircraft registered in other countries too but primarily U.S.
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