The Boeing 767-300ER with the registration OE-LAT will start its last journey on Wednesday under Austrian Airlines flight number OS1411. The machine is first transferred to Bangor for customs clearance.

The carrier pretended known a few daysthat the three Boeing 767-300ERs with the registrations OE-LAT, OE-LAX and OE-LAW have been sold to the company MonoCoque Diversified Interests, which specializes in the extraction of used spare parts. The aircraft mentioned will be gradually transferred to the United States at Pinal Airpark.

The OE-LAT will make its very last trip to Arizona after customs clearance is carried out in the state of Maine. There, the long-haul jet is about to be dismantled for the purpose of obtaining spare parts. According to Austrian Airlines, the machine had been in the air for 15 years. Since 1991, the plane has completed over 19.000 landings and around 133.000 flight hours.

Machine was delivered to Lauda Air in 1991

The OE-LAT was originally delivered to Lauda Air in 1991. This Boeing 767-300ER joined the AUA fleet in 2004, because at that time the flight operations of Lauda Air, which had been taken over a few years earlier, were merged with those of Austrian Airlines. However, the subsidiary existed for a few years with its own certificates, but no longer operated long-haul flights.

Before the last departure of the OE-LAT from Vienna, the aircraft 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 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.