All Nippon Airways' JA873A

Finally, the Droid we were looking for showed up! JA873A (cn 34530 / ln 345) is one of three "Star Wars" themed aircraft in their fleet. R2D2 arrived this morning as NH182 from Narita, and departed this afternoon as NH185 to Haneda.

ANA Wings' JA355K

JA355K (c/n 28129, l/n 2823), an ANA Wings [EH/AKX "Alpha Wing"] 737-5L9, is ferrying from HND to MZJ. It's flying as ANA9432, and made stops at GUM, MAJ, and HNL; which left the latter early this morning (photo above).

ANA Wings is a regional carrier in the All Nippon Airways system, whose fleet comprises of 737-54Ks, Dash8-Q315s, and Dash8-Q402s.

28129 was originally delivered to Maersk Air in October 1996 as OY-APC. ANA acquired the 737-5L9 in June 2001, registered it as JA355K, and assigned it to their Air Nippon [EL/ANK] subsidiary. It then went to their Air Next [7A/NXA "Blue Dolphin"] subsidiary in December 2007. It was recently transferred to the ANA Wings subsidiary, and is now being ferried to the Arizona desert.

ANA's N1006F At GUM

Team member funbird2006, who is on a work assignment out of GUM, reports that ANA's 787-881, N1006F, is at GUM. Like its visit to KOA last week, it's performing seven-hour plus test flights in the area around GUM.

Mahalo to funbird2006 for the photo.