N496SR

N496SR (c/n 29941, l/n 846), a former TUI Airways 757-236, is ferrying through HNL and SPN, as it ferries from GYR to CTU [Chengdu, China] for freighter conversion for SF Airlines, leased from Sojitz Aircraft Leasing.

29941 was originally delivered to British Airways in May 1999 as G-CPEU under lease from CIT Aerospace. In December 2002, it was leased to Air 2000. Between January 2004 and December 2009, it was leased to First Choice Airways as G-CPEU, and subleased to Skyservice Airlines as C-FLEU. The lease continued when First Choice re-branded as Thomson Airways, then TUI Airways which ended in October 2017. In April 2017, CIT sold this 757-236 to Avolon. Sojitz Aircraft Leasing purchased it in January 2019, and stored it at GYR.