Aircraft Photo of N956WP | Boeing 737-3Q8 | Western Pacific Airlines | AirHistory.net #714260
Aircraft
Registration / Serial:N956WP
Aircraft Original Type:Boeing 737
Aircraft Generic Type:Boeing 737-300
Aircraft Version:Boeing 737-3Q8
C/n (msn):24299 / 1598
Operator Titles:Western Pacific Airlines
Location
City / Airport:Colorado Springs - City of Colrado Springs MunicipalMap
Region / Country:Colorado, United States
Airport Codes:ICAO: KCOS   IATA: COS   Local: COS   Other: -
 
Photo Date:July 1996
Photo from:Michael Roeser Collection
Photo ID: 714260
Photo Comment

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 Withdrawn Bruntingthorpe 2012 and scrapped.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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