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SA Flyer Magazine
|May 2023
March has been a pretty average month with regard to aircraft movements on to and off the register, however there are some exciting new arrivals.
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THERE HAS BEEN A NEW Pilatus PC24 jet delivered as well as a PC12 single engine turboprop.
Yet another Boeing 737-800 has been registered to Safair, this one comes from the Ukraine, and by my calculations this makes their fleet now four Boeing 737-400s and no less than twenty-two Boeing 737-800s. And I know there is still another 800 series to be registered. This airline is really growing rapidly.
There is a second Embraer BizJet registered this month. This one comes from Germany.
An old favourite, ZS-PKU, a Boeing 737-529, has returned to her owners after being leased to Mat Airways / KonTiki Sky of Macedonia. She has been around the world, having started life with Sabena in Belgium, then to the USA, to Nationwide here in South Africa then to Macedonia, the USA, back to South Africa and again to Macedonia.
This story is from the May 2023 edition of SA Flyer Magazine.
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