Discovery Channel features fate of Hellas Jet A320's

[frank kramer]

Tonight, episode 3 of "Airline Repo" was aired on Discovery Channel in The Netherlands. It featured the repossession of two Airbus A320-212's. Both aircraft were operated by Hellas Jet on lease from Wells Fargo Bank, USA. MSN87/SX-BVL was seized and ferried from Chateauroux, France to the Acores, where it was reregistered N5015G and then flown to the US; sister ship MSN88/SX-BVK was seized from Istanbul-Atatürk Airport, Turkey and also ended up on the Acores for re-registration as N9070N and then ferried to the US. Both aircraft ended up in Gary, Indiana, but I don't know if they are actually still there; according to the FAA-websites both N-registrations are still current for these frames with Wells Fargo bank as owner. This all happened during March, 2010. It was an interesting, if somewhat hyped, episode. I for one had -up to now- failed to notice that HellasJet had gone out of business.

[T7]

Both aircraft were ferried to Gary, IN on resp. 26feb10 and 2mar10. They are still parked there as far as I know.

I must say it is really interesting to follow these people in their work. Which spotter doesn't feel the way their 'spotters' do their work searching for specific aircraft on those airfields. Last 2 weeks they did some 'spotting' at West Palm Beach, Opa Locka and Fort Lauderdale Executive.

[SPL]

Saw the episode as well, very interesting to see how this things works. How there will be more interesting episodes to follow...


Groeten Martijn

[rutger330]

Very intresting to see indeed how that works and ceasing an aircraft, Does somebody know the firm where his challenger was from? something 'AL ....' I thought thanks

Grt Rutger

[cHabu]

This episode was again on Discovery today.