18 February 2022

Eastern Airlines' N705KW

Eastern Airlines is using N705KW (c/n 24342, l/n 363, f/n 705) for ETOPS certification. The original flight by this 767-336ER, EAL9801 [JFK-HNL], was diverted to OAK on 16 February. It's making the ETOPS flight this evening from OAK as EAL9802.

24342's History:
Apr 1991: Delivered to British Airways as G-BNWJ "City of Athens".
Jly 2000: Acquired by Qantas Airways as VH-ZXD.
Jly 2013: Withdrawn from service, and stored at PVG.
Jun 2014: Acquired by Jet Midwest as N793JM.
Mar 2015: Acquired by KMW Leasing, and ferried to MCI for storage.
Jly 2017: Leased to Dynamic Airways.
Mar 2018: Renamed to Eastern Airlines, and acquired N793JM.
Jun 2018: Re-registered as N705KW.


21 Feb 2022 UPDATE
It will return to the mainland as EAL9900 to MIA.

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