Aviation 101 Boeing 757
The origins of the Boeing 757 began in the early 1970's when Boeing engineers started looking at a replacement for the very successful 727 trijet. By 1978 two variants were being considered; both were narrow-body twin-engine aircraft. By Mar 1979, the larger capacity of the two, code named 7N7-200, was officially selected and renamed 757. The 757 was designed and manufactured concurrently with the wide-body twinjet 767; the two aircraft featuring many similar features. Production began in 1981 at Boeing's Renton assembly plant near Seattle, WA. The first 757 entered commercial service on 1 Jan. 1983 with Eastern Airlines. When production ended in Oct 2004, a total of 1050 aircraft had been built for 54 customers.
More information on the Boeing 757 aircraft can be found at the following link:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_757
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LAB Boeing 757 Aircraft Fleet -- Detailed Histories and Photos of Two Aircraft Leased by LAB
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N756NA
| photo: Dan Valentine LHR Pics - jetphotos.net |
Boeing 757-28A c/n 32448 l/n 967
History:
Boeing Co. First flight: 21 May 2001
North American Airlines N756NA 3 Jun 2001
- leased from GECAS - General Electric Capital Aviation Services LAB - "wet leased" from NAA " Dec 2004
North American Airlines " 24 Mar 2005 - leased - AFSI - Aviation Financial Services Inc. - ret Jun 2005
U S Airways N207UW 11 Mar 2011
U S Airways " 24 Apr 2012 - leased from GECAS American Airlines " 9 Dec 2013 - operational
Note: As far as I can tell this aircraft was never flown by LAB. It was intended to be flown on the Santa Cruz - Miami - Washington DC route. A "wet lease" is when one airline, (in this case NAA), provides the aircraft, complete flight crew, maintenance and insurance to another airline, (in this case LAB); who would cover the fuel costs, airport and other fees or taxes.
Item of interest: A request was made by North American Airlines on 14 Dec 2006 to the US Dept of Transportation to allow NAA to perform flights on behalf of LAB later that same month. These flights would have been for the Santa Cruz - Miami - Washington DC route. Whether any of these flights, or any other by these two B757s, ever took place, I don't know; I am still looking into it.
| Kona Hawaii 29 Dec 2013 - photo: Kris V - jetphotos.net
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| Phoenix 16 Feb 2015 - photo: Alec Mollenhauer - jetphotos.net |
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N958PG
| Belo Horizonte, Brazil 3 Aug 2005 - photo: Roberto Rios - airliners.net |
Boeing 757-236
c/n 24118 l/n 163
History:
Boeing Co. First flight: 1 Jan 1988
Air Europe - UK G-BNSD 1 Mar 1988
Air Europa - Spain EC-204 13 Dec 1988
Air Europa EC-EMA 1 Jan 1989
Air Europe G-BNSD 21 Nov 1989
NFD - Luftverkehrs AG - Germany " 17 Mar 1990
- leased
Air Europe " 5 Nov 1990
Transavia Airlines - Netherlands PH-TKY 18 Mar 1992
China Southern Airlines N769BE 27 Jul 1993
Royal Airlines - Canada C-GRYO 26 Oct 1998
Canada 3000 " 29 Jan 2001
-wfu, ceased ops, stored at Goodyear AZ 9 Nov 2001
Pegasus Aviation N958PG 22 Jan 2002
TransMeridian Airlines - Atlanta " 20 Sep 2002
Avianca -leased from TMA " 1 Oct 2003
TransMeridian Airlines " 10 Mar 2004 - "John Kerry Campaign" titles applied: May 2004
" removed: Nov 2004
LAB N958PG Dec 2004
- uncertain if ever used by LAB TransMeridian Airlines " 5 Mar 2005
TCS Expeditions - leased from TMA " 1 Sep 2005
- 23 day charter trip to Africa
Pegasus Aviation - wfu " 29 Sep 2005
SBA - Santa Barbara Airlines -Venezuela YV2243 1 Oct 2006
- wfu and stored Feb 2012
Sky Holding Co. N630SH 4 Nov 2013
Federal Express N977FD 20 Dec 2013
- converted to SF (cargo) - converted back to 757-236 at Mobile AL Mar 2015
- operational
Note: Although it seems that this aircraft, as well N756NA, were never flown by LAB, there is at least one report of an observer sighting this plane in Mexico City on 17 Dec 2004 in TMA colors on a flight from Bolivia.
Interesting note: This aircraft was used by the John Kerry Presidential Campaign from May to Nov 2004 under a short-term lease from TransMeridian Airlines; (see photo below). Following his loss on election day the aircraft was re-painted in the TMA color scheme and returned to them.
| Mallorca 23 July 1988 - photo: Jordi Grife - Iberian Spotters - airliners.net |
| Girona, Spain 24 May 1989 - photo: Jordi Grife-Iberian Spotters-airliners.net |
| Faro Portugal 1992 - photo: Pedro Aragao - airliners.net |
| Hong Kong early 1990s - photo: Andrew Hunt - airliners.net |
| Montreal 19 Oct 2000 - photo: Felix Sieder - airliners.net |
| Montreal 2 Jul 2001 - photo: Felix Sieder - airliners.net |
| Miami 23 Oct 2003 - photo: Jay Selman - airliners.net |
| Phoenix 13 Oct 2004 - photo: Jeremy Irish - airliners.net |
| John Kerry arriving for third and final Presidential debate - Phoenix 14 Oct 2004 - photo: Jeremy Irish - airliners.net
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| TCS Expeditions flight leaving Madeira Islands 3 Sep 2005 - photo: Jorge Abreu - airliners.net
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| Miami 26 Feb 2009 - photo: Thomas Posch - VAP - airliners.net
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Latest comments
Los K-8 llegaron a Bolivia recién en 2011,no en 1993. La pista podría ser la de Tarija.
FRIMO= Frigorífico Movima, empresa de carga de los años 70- 80
Thank you for creating this website on the LAB fleet. I am writing a book, set in 1996, flight Riberalto, Bolivia to La Paz Bolivia & my research led me here. It was incredibly informative & helpful!
Steeling my pictures from La Paz 1973 they have my copyright, no permission is ask