NZFF

I wonder where she is now ?





CaptainSim 737 , paint by John Murchison.

I have a very funny feeling this ole '200 Classic' ended up in South America for eight years, the aircraft then joined the boneyard in the Mojave later life , be a good to find the actual history, surely must be some log books on the aircraft.

Splitpin wrote:I wonder where she is now ?

You're probably drinking beer out of her SP

Reason I quit drinking from cans, not to be disrespectful

cowpatz wrote:

Splitpin wrote:I wonder where she is now ?

You're probably drinking beer out of her SP

Now thats sad CP.....

Splitpin wrote:I wonder where she is now ?

ZK-NAC C/N 19929 Broken up in the Mohave Desert in August 1992.

ZK-NAD C/N 19930 Last known stored at Maxton, Carolina, pretty much in a complete state, minus engines and rudder.

ZK-NAE C/N 19931 Broken up in the late 90s at Roswell, New Mexico.

Thats all 3 of the original B732s purchased by NAC.

Lawrie.

What about NAM, she was a real orphan with all the early flight test equipment on her... where is she now?

Snowman wrote:

Splitpin wrote:I wonder where she is now ?

ZK-NAC C/N 19929 Broken up in the Mohave Desert in August 1992.

ZK-NAD C/N 19930 Last known stored at Maxton, Carolina, pretty much in a complete state, minus engines and rudder.

ZK-NAE C/N 19931 Broken up in the late 90s at Roswell, New Mexico.

Thats all 3 of the original B732s purchased by NAC.

Lawrie.

Sad news ...but thanks Lawrie , at least we can keep her flying NZFF style.

johnkiwi wrote:What about NAM, she was a real orphan with all the early flight test equipment on her... where is she now?

ZK-NAM C/N19758 Previously registered as N1359B.

This was Boeings 737-200 demonstrator aircraft.
It was a hybrid, and very different to other NAC B732s, and was not the most popular aircraft with NZ pilots.
Air New Zealand purchased it in March 1978, and when she was withdrawn from Air NZ service, she had amassed 23,259 hours.
It operated in the USA until the 90s, and was broken up at Ardmore, Oklahoma, in 1998.

Lawrie.

Wasn't the most popular with engineering either, had a few odd features that caught us out when installing a few mods,and the wiring diagrams were one of a kind too!

Even bridging fittings were outta tack, think this was were ANZ-engineering got really respected regard to the work ..

Snowman wrote:
ZK-NAE C/N 19931 Broken up in the late 90s at Roswell, New Mexico.
Lawrie.

Roswell, eh? More likely stolen by those aliens and used to spray chemtrails everywhere...gimme a few days, and I'll work up a very plausible conspiracy

emfrat wrote:

Snowman wrote:
ZK-NAE C/N 19931 Broken up in the late 90s at Roswell, New Mexico.
Lawrie.

Roswell, eh? More likely stolen by those aliens and used to spray chemtrails everywhere...gimme a few days, and I'll work up a very plausible conspiracy

Mikey .. don't put Ideas in my head .. Ya know the weird things I come up with

Well, you are a resident of Area 51

emfrat wrote:Well, you are a resident of Area 51

SHhhhh , don't tell every one, you know how the Paparazzi Pizza boys are ... cook first and shoot later with their Mash potatoes

This bird has flown almost everywhere on the planet!

It started in 1968 at New Zealand Air, from there she went to: (in order) 1978, Air New Zealand (companies merged) => 1986, CGAL (A lease company?) => 1987, Presidential Air in the USA, Registration changed to N321XV => 1987, America West Airlines => 1987, COPA Airlines in Panama => 1988, Inter Canadian in Icecube country => 1989, Olympic Airlines in Greece. Stayed in service until 2003 and was scrapped after that. Quite the service life!

"Quite the service life!" Yes indeed , thanks for looking .... and thanks for the research .

Snowman wrote:This was Boeings 737-200 demonstrator aircraft.
It was a hybrid, and very different to other NAC B732s, and was not the most popular aircraft with NZ pilots.

That's interesting Lawrie, man I hope they got a hell of a deal on her

Boeing 737-200, which one? Captain Sim, Justflight, Milviz, Freeware? The problem is, years ago there was no 737-200 at all and now we have the overkill. I have Captain Sim (not so good in my eyes, , flying behavor questionalble) Justflight (in the optics less than that of Captain Sim, but better to fly) and have flown the Freeware-Version also and this one was good, but there was no VC...