[ACARS] Old and new Onur Air Airbuses

[Matthias Bludau]

> Throughout its life this aircraft has wandered the skies working for a
> variety of non-acars users. Correct me if I'm wrong but I think its
> one tenuous connection to an acars user is that it was originally
> ordered by, but never delivered to, Canadian.
> 

Hi,
to my knowledge the last long-time user of this aircraft, A320-211 
S/N 371, has been Lotus Air from Egypt. The aircraft is owned by 
ILFC, hence the box probably has been installed, because it's leasing 
aircraft, which often have a standard set of features, which most 
operators of leased aircraft like to see in their aircraft. ACARS 
capability is one of them, but obviously the current operator, who 
probably isn't an ACARS subscriber altogether, hasn't bothered to 
clip the respective circuit breaker of the ATSU (maybe because it's a 
short term lease), which would shut the box up until it gets an 
operator which is using ACARS again. The same goes for the Aircraft 
Ident, which needs to be set by bridges on a coding connector in the 
E/E bay.

cheers
Matthias