Dublin headquartered ASL Aviation Holdings subsidiary ASL Airlines France 6 August took delivery of its ninth Boeing 737-800(BCF) registered F-HIQJ (c/n 33719). According to Planespotters, the aircraft was originally delivered to Ryanair as EI-DAM in April 2003 before being withdrawn from service in September 2021.
The aircraft was registered to lessor BBAM and ferried from Lasham to Novosibirsk and then Jinan on 19–20 October 2021. The aircraft was stored at Jinan from 21 October 2021 until 12 August 2022 for passenger-to-freighter conversion and was re-registered as 2-BPDJ during the cargo conversion process.
The converted freighter was delivered to Slovak carrier AirExplore as OM-EDA in August 2022 and operated on behalf of UAE-based RDS Cargo Group. It was returned to BBAM in December 2025 as OE-IBZ before being registered to ASL Aviation Holdings in July 2026.
Image Credit: ASL Airlines France
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