[ACARS] Old and new Onur Air Airbuses

Sat, 20 Jul 2002 12:16:24 -0000

Hello,

Belated update:

Malcolm Nason reports that "TC-OND" was seen doing a test flight from
Shannon on the 13th (which is when I got all those messages).  It was
painted all white, no titles, and still registered SU-LBA, the reg it wore
while in service with Lotus Air.

Thanks to Matthias for his knowledgeable explanation quoted below!

Cheers,

Jacob
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Jacob Struben
Location: Galway, Ireland (N5316 W00903)

-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]On
Behalf Of Matthias Bludau
Sent: 14 July 2002 16:30
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [ACARS] Old and new Onur Air Airbuses

> 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