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ZK-NZC. Boeing 787-9. c/n 41988-126.
This aircraft was ordered new by Air New Zealand - ? It was the first Boeing 787-9 built by Boeing at Everett, Washington It was allocated the Boeing Variable Number 'ZB001' Entered onto the United States Aircraft Register as N789EX - April 23, 2013 Registered to the Boeing Aircraft Company, Renton, Washington The airframe assembly was commenced at the Everett plant - May 30, 2013 Rolled out of the production hangar in the Boeing livery - August 24, 2013 First flown from Everett (Paine Field) - September 17, 2013 This test flight lasted 5 hours 16 minutes The aircraft was then utilised by Boeing as a test airframe before being prepared for delivery to Air New Zealand Ferried Everett (Paine Field) - Farnborough Air Show for public display - July 10 - 11, 2014 The aircraft had completed all its test flying for Boeing and stored at Everett (Paine Field) - August 27, 2014 The aircraft had flown a total of 596:80 hours on 227 test flights Officially withdrawn from the Boeing Flight Test Program - January 03, 2015 It entered the Boeing Change Incorporation Program at Everett - July 2015 This program at Everett was to prepare the aircraft for delivery to Air New Zealand Ferried Paine Field - Victorville for repainting into Air New Zealand livery - July 09, 2015 Ferried Victorville - Paine Field on completion of the painting as BOE126 - August 05, 2015 Test flown Everett (Paine Field) - Everett (Paine Field) on two Boeing test flights - August 15, 2015 Flown Everett (Paine Field) - Moses Lake - Everett (Paine Field) on customer acceptance flight - August 18, 2015 Entered onto the New Zealand Aircraft Register as ZK-NZC - August 25, 2015 Registered to Air New Zealand Limited, Auckland Accepted by Air New Zealand at Everett (Paine Field) - August 25, 2015 This was the fifth Boeing 787 delivered to Air New Zealand Departed Everett (Paine Field) at 21:10 local on the delivery flight to New Zealand as NZ6094 - August 25, 2015 It arrived at Auckland (05:35 local) on completion of the delivery flight - August 27, 2015 The aircraft had flown 794 hours with 783 cycles to date Operated its first revenue service Auckland - Brisbane as NZ135 - September 01, 2015 Current with Air New Zealand |
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ZK-NZC. Air New Zealand - in the 'Silver Fern' livery at Christchurch Airport, January 28, 2017. (Z. Rae Copyright Image 4685-156.) |
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ZK-NZC. Air New Zealand - in the 'Silver Fern' livery at Adelaide West Beach Airport, November 07, 2018. (T. Haynes Copyright Image 4685-102.) |
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ZK-NZC. Air New Zealand - in the 'Silver Fern' livery at Adelaide West Beach Airport, June 26, 2019. (T. Haynes Copyright Image 4685-134.) |
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ZK-NZC. Air New Zealand - in the 'Silver Fern' livery at Adelaide West Beach Airport, June 26, 2019. (T. Haynes Copyright Image 4685-135.) |
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ZK-NZC. Air New Zealand - in the 'Silver Fern' livery at Adelaide West Beach Airport, August 04, 2019. (T. Haynes Copyright Image 4685-104.) |
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ZK-NZC. Air New Zealand - in the 'Silver Fern' livery at Adelaide West Beach Airport, August 04, 2019. (T. Haynes Copyright Image 4685-105.) |