Photographer: Eberhard Kunze. K25 slide scan. Built 1988 as EC-189/EC-ELJ for VIVA, reregistered EC-594/EC-FER 1991. Western Pacific N956WP 1996, VASP PP-SFM 1998. Lessor Ansett N611LF, Region Air S7-RGM 2001, operating for Myanmar Airways, returned to Ansett as N299NY 2003. FlyMe SE-RCS 2004, Air Italy I-AIGM 2007. Withdrawn Bruntingthorpe 2012 and scrapped. Cockpit section moved to a hotel at Amsterdam as the "Cockpit Suite". Western Pacific certainly managed to draw publicity from a bare metal airframe.
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