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MSN: 429 ex Thomas Cook Airlines is on the way to Skywest! It's been along time coming, but finally!

i remember kirk sending me a photo of an A321 (i think) in skywest colours... looked nice

*EDIT*

Found it:

http://cdn-www.airliners.net/aviation-p ... 670272.jpg

A320...

Here are the photos

http://www.jetphotos.net/viewphoto.php? ... 107&nseq=0

http://www.jetphotos.net/viewphoto.php? ... 04&nseq=15

And here is its history, fist flight made in 1993...

http://www.planespotters.net/Production ... irways.php

Ah she has been around...

It will be named VH-FNP

She has seen service with a number of airlines, alot of them under a WET / ACMI deal.

As posted here: http://warsug.info/viewtopic.php?p=86139#p86139

The A320 was at bay 502 this morning at perth, and in Hawker Pacific Maintinence this arvo

FNP is finally opperational. Flew the Perth - Karratha - Perth flight this morning.

Nafenn wrote:FNP is finally opperational. Flew the Perth - Karratha - Perth flight this morning.

Was it taking punters or a proving flight?

As i was informed that it was to do them before going into service

and that it would operate the KFE/YFDF Cloud Break/Fortasceue Dave Forrest flights, which Virgin have been helping out on a bit.

FNP is on its way back from KFE/YFDF Cloud break due at 18:45 its using OZW321, however Perth airport is not displaying any passenger/charter flights from Cloud break at this time, so i would assume its a proving flight, I have sent a text to some one that works at XR and will confirm when it enters RPT/Charter service.

Further information regarding Skywest flight numbers

All F100 RPT flights operate XR0xx
All F50 RPT flights operate XR1xx
All Charter flights Operate XR2xx
All A320 flights will operate XR3xx

AO11912 wrote:

Nafenn wrote:FNP is finally opperational. Flew the Perth - Karratha - Perth flight this morning.

Was it taking punters or a proving flight?

As i was informed that it was to do them before going into service

and that it would operate the KFE/YFDF Cloud Break/Fortasceue Dave Forrest flights, which Virgin have been helping out on a bit.

may have missread the board... thought it said KTA - sort of close (ok, not really)

There were pax onboard, but i was working on virgin at the time up around bay 16

AO11912 wrote:FNP is on its way back from KFE/YFDF Cloud break due at 18:45 its using OZW321, however Perth airport is not displaying any passenger/charter flights from Cloud break at this time, so i would assume its a proving flight, I have sent a text to some one that works at XR and will confirm when it enters RPT/Charter service.

Further information regarding Skywest flight numbers

All F100 RPT flights operate XR0xx
All F50 RPT flights operate XR1xx
All Charter flights Operate XR2xx
All A320 flights will operate XR3xx

And i think (this is just from what i have observed like yesterday ) that XR12XX is a second aircraft in a charter. Ie: we had 2 to cloudbreak: 243 and 1243 - leaving 30 mins appart

It's been in use for 2 days, and is already having problems

The APU is faulty apparently - had to be hooked up to a GPU to get it going this morning.

(side note: apparently it was the 11th airbus A320 off the production line)

Nafenn wrote:It's been in use for 2 days, and is already having problems

The APU is faulty apparently - had to be hooked up to a GPU to get it going this morning.

(side note: apparently it was the 11th airbus A320 off the production line)

First flight was in 1993

According to my flight attendant friend it was to try get its AOC by Friday, then start double KFE on Monday, its still only doing proving flights, they did CASA Evacuation training on Thursday morning.