At April 17 2025 Iran Air added two A330’s to its fleet despite sanctions. EP-IJC is former B-LNK and VP-CLN and EP-IJD/VP-CLI is former B-LNL. VP-CLI could be tracked by Flightradar. VP-CLN not.
Both aircraft were stored at Haikou airport in China for around 1 year. At April 2 2025 the aircraft flew to Muscat for maintenance. Their VP- registrations where used in the flightplan. At April 17 the aircraft flew from Muscat to Tehran.
At December 23, 2022 four Airbus A340-300 aircraft were flown at the same time from Johannesburg to Iran. However the flightplan mentioned a destination in Uzbekistan. Once in Iranian airspace the aircraft flew to Tehran. All four aircraft were on December 23, the day of departure, registered in Burkina Faso. Before that the aircraft were…
Despite international sanctions, the Iranian regime has once again managed to acquire an aircraft. This time, it is not a regular passenger jet but a VIP-configured Boeing 737-400. The aircraft has been registered as EP-SAU (serial number 25423). Until 2011 the aircraft flew as PH-BTB for KLM. The aircraft, which was still registered to its…
On 28 June 2026, a Boeing 737-300 registered C9-AXT, using hex-id 0060A4 flew from Sofia, Bulgaria, to Sohar, Oman. Later the same day, the aircraft continued to Iran, most likely to Tehran. This article is part of an investigative series tracking the aircraft that Iran acquires despite international sanctions. This aircraft is former F-GIXT which…
Three Boeing 737 aircraft were ferried from Amman (ADJ) , Jordan, to Taraz, Kazakhstan, on 28 July 2026, in what appears to be a highly unusual sequence of flights. The coordinated transfers have sparked speculation that the aircraft could ultimately be destined for Iran, following a pattern seen in previous aircraft movements. The first aircraft,…
At December 21, 2023 three (maybe four) aircraft were simultaneously flown from Hyderabad, India to Chabahar/Konarak International Airport (OIZC) in Iran. Flightradar showed that two aircraft had Congo registrations. Malcolm J Bezzina spotted these flights first and reported on X. The three are (al spotted at Flightradar) TN-AKP HEX 036114 (left HYD 0738 UTC landed…
At the same time, two aircraft that had been parked for a long period in the United States are also being flown to Africa for a new owner. What exactly these aircraft will be doing there remains unknown. On April 28, the former Kalitta Boeing 727 freighter N725CK began its ferry flight from Oscoda toward…