Boeing 737-2U4, G-WGEL / 22161, Dan-Air (DA / DAN)
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Registration: G-WGEL
Construction Number: 22161
Model Boeing 737-2U4
Operator: Dan-Air (DA / DAN)
Airport: London - Gatwick (LGW / EGKK), UK - England
Photographer: Martin Laycock
Date Taken: 1992
Date Submitted: 21/11/2009
Photographed on approach into Gatwick during the last year of Dan Air operations sometime in early 1992, this 737 was first delivered on the 17th April 1980 to Britannia Airways. Dan Air acquired her on the 5th November 1983, by now she was registered G-ILFC (recognising the owners International Lease Finance Corporation), she became G-WGEL on the 5th July 1988. After Dan-Air ceased to be she passed to Sahara India Airlines as VT-SIB on the 14th November 1993, then to FSB as N161DF on the 16th July 1999. Another change of operator came on the 7th May 2002, this time Regional Air as 5Y-BPP. Her last recorded operator was AdamAir as PK-KKN, delivered to them on the 1st August 2005 but withdrawn from use by March 2008 and now believed to be stored.
Picture ID:1203603