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Austrian Airlines says goodbye to the first Boeing 767
The first Boeing 767-300ER with the registration OE-LAT left Vienna for the USA. The machine will initially fly to Bangor in the US state of Maine under flight number OS 1411, where customs clearance will be processed. After this stopover, the flight number OS 1413 continues to the final destination, Pinal Airpark in Arizona. Before taking off from Vienna, the plane was duly adopted. Austrian Airlines Technik employees wrote greetings on the aircraft's nose landing gear door. The Austrian Airlines crew, which was transferring the plane, also said “Servus” again before take-off.
The OE-LAT was delivered in 1991 and was in use at Lauda Air from December of this year. After the complete takeover of Lauda Air in 2004, the machine was integrated into the Austrian Airlines fleet. Since 1991, the plane has completed over 19,000 landings and around
133,000 flight hours. That corresponds to over 15 years in the air.
The OE-LAT is the first of three Boeing 767-300ERs to leave the Austrian Airlines fleet this year. The next transfer flight is planned for May with the OE-LAX. The OE-LAW will follow in the course of the year. All three machines go to the US company MonoCoque Diversified Interests.