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Airbus Industrie A330-223 (324)

 

 
Date: 03/2000

Location: TLS/LFBO

Photo: collection Skystef

Description: this A330 of Sabena was the last one ever delivered to the carrier. Here seen with test registration "F-WWYU" prior its voyage to its home base, it was delivered on May 26 2000 and wore only the latest color scheme. The airframe remained operational till the day before Sabena's demise on November 7 2001.

Date: 11/2002

Location: HAM/EDDH

Photo: collection Skystef

Description: after storage, it was cancelled to Germany in November 2002 and is here depicted as "D-AIME" prior a repaint in the livery of Lufthansa.

Date: 05/09/2013

Location: BRU/EBBR

Photo: Skystef

Description: on June 7 2013 it arrived at Brussels in the full livery of Brussels Airlines, becoming operational three days later.

Date: 21/08/2013

Location: BRU/EBBR

Photo: Skystef

Description: from mid July 2013 onwards it was decorated with Tomorrowland stickers on the left hand side (see also with OO-SFN and OO-SSA), a three day music festival in Belgium between July 26-28 (of edition 2013) of which Brussels Airlines was the official carrier. It would carry some music fans in a couple of flights from Tel Aviv.

Date: 21/08/2013

Location: BRU/EBBR

Photo: Skystef

Description: detail.

Date: 21/08/2013

Location: BRU/EBBR

Photo: Skystef

Description: detail, all stickers were removed on September 7 2013. Its final flight took place on March 17 2020 and after a brief period of storage at BRU, it was on April 9 ferried to the desert in Marana for scrapping.

 

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