Overview
- The 43-year-old Boeing 737-200 (VT-EHH) was moved on November 14 and transported by tractor-trailer to Bengaluru.
- Air India sold the aircraft to Bangalore International Airport Ltd for use in maintenance engineer training at its MRO facility.
- CEO Campbell Wilson told staff the plane had slipped from company records during the airline’s privatisation.
- This was the only recently disposed Air India airframe sold with its Pratt & Whitney engines still attached.
- Kolkata airport recovered nearly Rs 1 crore in parking fees, freed space for a proposed new hangar, and now has only two defunct Alliance Air ATRs on site.