Friday 7 March 2014

Latest addition to my collection: MAS B737-200 and A300 by Aeroclassics.

Although both were not new releases, these models are must-have, if you're collecting Malaysia Airlines models. Both were released by Aeroclassics, in 1:400 scale.

First, the B737-200/Advanced.

Delivered to MAS as 9M-AQL on 6/10/1972 (5 days after the formation of MAS), she was re-registered as 9M-MBA in 1975. Her service with MAS ended on 1991, when she was sold to Great Atlantic Airlines as V2-LDT on October 1991, and later to SAHSA of Honduras as HR-SHP, Aviateca of Guatemala as TG-AOA on January 1994,re-registered as N126GU on December 1995, and finally to Sky Airline of Chile as CC-CTU on December 2002. The aircraft is now wfu (Withdrawn from Use) at Santiago International Airport, Chile.








Second, the Airbus A300B4-203:

Delivered to MAS in 1979, and in service until 1995. She was later sold to Carnival Airlines (alongside her elder sister, Hotel Alpha), and re-registered as N225KW. She was later converted into a freighter, and re-designated as A300B4-203(F).

This aircraft,later re-registered as OO-DLL later made into headline, as she was involved in the incident known as "2003 DHL attempted shootdown incident" in Baghdad International Airport, Iraq. Although she lost all of her hydraulics, the aircraft had successfully made a return to Baghdad, and performed an emergency landing. The aircraft still in Baghdad, although her flying days are now over.





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