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Singapore Airlines B787-10 9V-SCA

Westjet Cargo B737-804(BCF) 2-BPDM

Westjet Caro B737-804(BCF) 2-BPDM | NRT | 24-APR-2022

Westjet Cargo B737-804(BCF) 2-BPDM recently ferried though Narita on its way to its new home in Canada. It’s msn 39204.

Etihad Airways B787-9 A6-BLV

Etihad Dreamliner A6-BLV looking very smart in its Formula 1 scheme.

Tokyo Haneda: 11-APR-2022

Nice visitor today was ITALIAN AIR FORCE A319-115CJ MM62174 which arrived this morning from Mumbai (BOM).

Photo Credit: Flickr Commons / Stefano Benedetto

It departed the following day back to India to Nagpur (NAG). There were a couple of other anonymous biz that defied identification too.

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Tokyo Haneda: 09-APR-2022

After a barren spell, I’m quite pleased to report 4 biz jets here today.

N224JE Falcon 7X
N401JE Gulfstream G450
9H-OKO Gulfstream G650
9H-VIE Global 7500

The two Amercians, which I think are fairly newly registered, appear to be ferrying stateside. They came up from Singapore (XSP) via Angles (CRK) and left for Anchorage (ANC). The VISTAJET MALTA arrived from Brussels (BRU) on the 7-APR and left for Nadi (NAN) in Fiji today.

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All Nippon Airways to return PW powered Boeing 777s to service

ALL NIPPON AIRWAYS (NH/ANA) have announced that they will be bringing a number of their stored Pratt & Whitney 4000 powered Boeing 777’s back in to service in the coming months. The aircraft were (along with a number of other operators’ PW powered examples) grounded in February 2021 following some well-publicised operational events involving the engines’ fan blades (JAPAN AIRLINES in late 2020, and UNITED AIRLINES in early 2021).

ANA B777-281ER JA742A will soon be returning to service. JAL B777-346 JA751J’s fate is not so certain.

The return to service is dependent on various modifications being done to the engines, and ANA now say these have been done thus allowing the aircraft to fly again. It’s not yet clear exactly how many will retrurn and for how long.

JAPAN AIRLINES (JL/JAL) have disposed of much of their PW fleet but there are still a number in Japan. Currently there has been no indication that these will also be reactivated.