Agairnz's week of it. Part 2.

 Agairnz has been busy during the week with his long lens and captured some of the larger visitors to Auckland.

We start with the locally registered Texel Air NZ Ltd's Boeing 737-8B5(BCF) ZK-TXE c/n 29986 and production line number 852 as snapped on 09-01-2024.

Cranked out by Boeing as N1786B and first flying on 09-05-2001 for delivery, on lease, to Korean Airlines as HL7566 from 25-05-2001.

After having winglets fitted in February of 2021 it was stored at Victorville to be registered as N851BC with Boeing Capital Corporation from 01-06-2021. It was then leased to BCC Bolongo Ltd of Virgin Islands from 07-06-2021, then to Chisolm Enterprises from 06-08-2021.

It was then filed under TVPX Aircraft Solutions Inc Trustee of North Salt Lake City, Utah from 24-08-2021 and converted to a freighter at Jinan, China in December 2021 to become what is often called a BCF model - ie Boeing Converted Freighter.

On 13-02-2022 it was registered in Bahrain as A9C-GWC on lease to Texel Air NZ Ltd and as such ferried into Hamilton via Bangkok and Darwin on 22-05-2023 for NZ certification with Hamilton Aero Maintenance and became ZK-TXE on 26-05-2023.

Above we have the Korean Air Boeing 777-3B5 (ER) HL8346 c/n 63434 on departure from Auckland.

This first flew on 21-04-2019 and was delivered from Boeing on 14-05-2019.

Air Canada's Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner C-FVLX4 c/n 38356 and line number 668 was delivered on 16-02-2018. It is seen here in its recent Disney "WISH/Le Souhait" scheme.