HB-IHS Boeing 757-2G5 Balair (blue titles) LPA 04NOV00

            With additional 'Hotelplan', 'Esco' and 'M Travel' agency titles.

Named: "Horizonte".

This aircraft was delivered to ILFC International Lease Finance Corporation and leased to Balair / CTA Leisure as HB-IHS in Apr-00.  The airline was part of the Swissair Group and the aircraft was repossessed by ILFC in Oct-01 when Swissair ceased operations.

Balair was sold to a consortium of Swiss Travel Companies in Nov-01 and renamed Belair Airlines AG.  The aircraft was re-leased from ILFC.

In Jan-08 Belair was taken over by the Air Berlin Group and marketed as Air Berlin Switzerland.  The registration D-ABPB was reserved but not taken up.  The aircraft was returned to the lessor in Apr-10 and stored at Madrid, Spain.

It was leased to Thomson Airways as G-OOBP in Jun-10 and was stored at Manchester, UK.  It was was fitted with blended winglets and entered service in Nov-10.  Thomson Airways was renamed TUI Airways UK in Oct-17.

The aircraft was withdrawn from service in Oct-21 and ferried to St. Athan, Wales, UK for interior strip-out prior to freighter conversion.  It was returned to Blackrock Leasing as N394BR in Dec-21 and ferried to Goodyear, AZ, USA for storage.

In Jun-22 it was ferried to Xiamen, China for cargo conversion and sold to CargoJet Airways (Canada) in Jul-22.  The aircraft was converted to freighter configuration with a main deck cargo door in Dec-22 and ferried to Hamilton, ON Canada on delivery.

It was re-registered C-GCJB in Jan-23 for service entry.  Current, updated 27-Jan-24.

Taken in: Spain / Canary Islands / Ingenio / Carrizal (show map)

Taken on: November 4, 2000

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