Ural Airlines Is Preparing to Fly an Airbus A320 Out of a Field

Re:Ural Airlines Is Preparing to Fly an Airbus A320 Out of a... by imp0cat on Thursday October 05, 2023 @01:15AM (#37775128)

Oh, so is this one of the stolen planes? And so they are unable to get spare parts?

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Re:Ural Airlines Is Preparing to Fly an Airbus A320 Out of a... by kergonath on Thursday October 05, 2023 @01:48AM (#37775280)

Officially, no. In reality there are ways around it. There are always local or Chinese knockoffs, and other aircrafts that can be used as sources of spare parts. This one might well end up like this if too many things go wrong. It’s obviously suboptimal and a bit of a gamble.

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Re:Ural Airlines Is Preparing to Fly an Airbus A320 Out of a... by rob74 on Thursday October 05, 2023 @02:29AM (#37775469)

According to https://www.planespotters.net/airframe/airbus-a320-200-ra-73..., the plane was leased from AerCap and registered as VQ-BFW (Bermuda) until 23 Mar 2022, and then re-registered as RA-73807 - so yes, this is one of the stolen planes. But the spare parts situation is not related to that...

I have found an article https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/aircraft-... about AerCap receiving 645 million dollars for 17 (or 18?) aircraft used by Aeroflot, but Ural Airlines being independent of Aeroflot, I don't think this plane is part of that agreement.

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