ex Aegean Airlines Boeing 737s status (SX-BGH, SX-BGQ, SX-BGR & SX-BGX)

Aegean Airlines has returned to their lessors most of their Boeing 737s that they had in their fleet, due to the recent upgrade of their fleet with brand new Airbus A320 and A321s. Currently only 4 Boeing 737s are left in their fleet, used mainly for charter flights. Below is a brief history of what happened to 4 of their Boeing 737s after leaving Athens.

SX-BGH
c/n 23866
Leased from Boullioun Aviation (transferred to ACG Acquisitions since 2006)

Departed from ATH on 3/2/2009 and was ferried as AEE002F to NWI (Norwich, UK). Around mid May it had its Aegean colors removed and stayed in bare metal in the Eastern Apron for a few days. On 28/5/2009 it did a test flight as AEE002T and the next day went into the paintshop. It came out on 5/6/2009 painted in brown primer and did another test flight as AEE002T. For the following couple of days it was doing low power engine runs in the Eastern Apron. On 25/6/2009 it was towed in the North Western Storage area of the airport and is parked there until today.

Thanks to Paul for the following photos.

Boeing 737 / SX-BGH / parked in NWI in bare metal (photo 21/5/2009)


Boeing 737 / SX-BGH / being towed to the paintshop after a test flight (photo 28/5/2009)


Boeing 737 / SX-BGH / just out of the paintshop in brown primer (photo 5/6/2009)


SX-BGQ
c/n 25177
Leased from AerCap

Departed from ATH on 5/5/2009 and was ferried as AEE002F to SNN (Shannon, Ireland). It was put in Shannon Aerospace hangar and came out all white on 6/7/2009. The same day it did a test flight with a GECAS crew, using the registration as callsign. On 22/7/2009 it did another test flight with Aegean Airlines crew and callsign AEE001F. It is parked in SNN until today.

Thanks to Gerry McCready (aerspace.blogspot.com) for the following photo.

Boeing 737 / SX-BGQ / taxing in SNN after a test flight (photo 22/7/2009)


SX-BGR
c/n 25063
Leased from Boullioun Aviation (transferred to ACG Acquisitions since 2006)

Departed from ATH on 13/4/2009 and was ferried as AEE002F to NWI. It then had its Aegean Airlines titles removed and on 25/6/2009 it was towed to the Northern Storage area of the airport. On 15/7/2009 it did a test flight as AEE007F and upon landing it went into KLM Engineering hangar. It is parked in NWI until today.

Thanks to Paul for the following photo.

Boeing 737 / SX-BGR / parked in NWI and being inspected by KLM engineers (photo 9/6/2009)


SX-BGX
c/n 24124
Leased from CIT Aerospace

Departed from ATH on 17/11/2008 and was ferried as AEE004F to NWI. On 18/1/2009 it did a test flight as AEE007, including 2 ILS approaches to NWI. On 3/4/2009 it was seen registered JY-JAP in full Aegean Airlines colors. The next day it departed from NWI and was ferried to ADJ (Amman, Jordan). It was acquired by Jordan Aviation and was then subleased to Buraq Air. It is operating for them until today.

Thanks to Paul for the following photo.

Boeing 737 / JY-JAP / parked in NWI one day before its ferry flight to ADJ (photo 3/4/2009)