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An Aeroflot Airbus A330 present process C-check on the Mahan Air hangar in Tehran.
Credit: Mahan Air
Aeroflot’s Airbus A330-300 plane has returned to Russia after present process upkeep at Mahan Air’s MRO facility in Iran.
The plane, with registration quantity RA-73700, arrived at Aeroflot’s Moscow Sheremetyevo Airport base from Tehran on March 1, based on Flightradar24.
The wide-body plane spent 11 months in Iran present process C checks at Mahan Air Engineering & Maintenance.
The C-check was the primary time a Russian airline had despatched a passenger aircraft overseas for repairs since sanctions had been launched following Moscow’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in early 2022. Under the principles, Western suppliers are prohibited from offering spare components and providers to the United States. Russia.
Mahan Air beforehand posted a video exhibiting the Russian-operated plane in its hangar, arriving in April 2023. In the video, the Iranian airline stated its technical MRO capabilities had been assessed and accredited by Aeroflot’s audit workforce. Mahan Airlines operates the A340-600, which is structurally and technically much like the A330-300.
Aeroflot declined to remark when requested if it was glad with Iran’s upkeep work. However, the flag service despatched one other A330 (RA-73784) to Tehran for upkeep in November 2023 and stays within the nation.
Aeroflot has 12 A330s, making them the oldest wide-body plane in its fleet. Eight of the plane had been acquired by the airline by finance leases beginning in 2022, two A330s have remained grounded for greater than a yr, and the opposite has not operated passenger flights since September 2023.
The firm’s widebody fleet contains 22 Boeing 777-300ERs and 9 A350-900s.
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