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    Airframe Family: Boeing B727 / C-22
    Latest Model:727-225
    Construction Number:21578
    Last Civil Registration:N8881Z
    Compressed ID:Boeing 727-225 cn 21578 cr N8881Z
    Latest Owner or Location:Leading Edge Group Llc, Kirkland, WA

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    Dates

    Event

    1979

    Constructed as a 727-225.

    10 January 1979

    To Eastern Air Lines with new c/r N8881Z.

    From August 1990 to March 1993

    Leased to Mexicana.

    July 1993

    To Kiwi International Air Lines keeping c/r N8881Z.

    April 2000

    To Sabre Airways with new c/r G-OPMN.

    Circa August 2000


    Photographer: EX/ZX Collection
    Notes: At Paris CDG

    June 2001

    To Cougar Air keeping c/r G-OPMN.

    7 April 2002


    Photographer: Lewis Grant
    Notes: G-OPMN : Boeing 727-225 : Cougar Air. - Charter flight GCR326 into Edinburgh, from Paris CDG

    November 2003

    Permanently withdrawn from use.
    At Tucson, AZ.

    From 3 April 2007 to 6 March 2017

    To Leading Edge Group Llc, Kirkland, WA with new c/r N8881Z.

    6 March 2017

    Civil registration, N8881Z, cancelled.
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