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Post by dav3469 on Aug 18, 2010 19:38:24 GMT 12
As I was driving to the office this morning, I glanced over at one of the FBO's on the south side of LAX, and behold I saw one of the RNZAF 757's with 1 Left door open and the airstairs in place. I of course hurried to the office and attempted to enlist a coworker for a rampside run for photos. Only to be told I had to attend mandatory retirement information training that had been contracted for the day. Now I was perplexed as I have ten years to go in my twenty required for a federal retirement. Of course I have since long ago found that an argument with government logic is useless.
So, no photos were taken, but I must say a very nice looking aircraft in person. This was at about 0700 local time. When I left work at about 1530 the aircraft was long gone. However a ANZ 747-400 was on the southside where VIP/Cargo/Charter transients usually parked.
President Obama was in town for a fundrasier. Just Coincidence, or was there a state visit going on as well from our friends down your way?
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Post by Dave Homewood on Aug 18, 2010 20:37:10 GMT 12
Interesting Dave, it's neat to see one of ours being spotted in the USA. USually posts here are foreign aircraft being spotted here. I think our Prime Minister is here in NZ at the moment so it's not him visiting Mr Obama.
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Post by sqwark2k on Aug 18, 2010 22:52:05 GMT 12
The 2nd B744 retirement from the AirNZ fleet departed yesterday, maybe on same route as the first to Roswell, New mexico. that may have been your transient B744....
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Post by yogi on Aug 19, 2010 17:48:41 GMT 12
boneyard?
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Post by sqwark2k on Aug 19, 2010 20:27:49 GMT 12
Recycling I think...
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Post by sqwark2k on Aug 20, 2010 8:08:50 GMT 12
I stand corrected.... from the MRC blog site....
Air New Zealand said farewell to Boeing 747-441 ZK-SUI "Queenstown" 17Aug with the Jumbo flying its final passenger service for the airline as NZ99 from Auckland to Tokyo/Narita. It later positioned to Xiamen, China as ANZ6043 for maintenance with TAECO and conversion to a freighter for onwards lease to Air Atlanta Iceland. ZK-SUI was delivered to Air NZ during 1995 and during its time with the airline upto its arrival in China late 17Aug had accumulated 8991 cycles and some 77237 hours in the air.
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