Shows posts related to delivery of aircraft to Iran despite sanctions
Update: August 21, 2024. All four aircraft were ferried to Minsk in Belarus. Update: August 23, 2024. corrected type of aircraft. C5-TAA is an A320. Added news on A320 flown from Belarus to Tehran as YK-BAC. update: June 3, 2025: One of the three A330s has been painted in Belavia colours. Cabincrew was trained by…
An Airbus A320 was despite sanctions delivered to an yet unknown Iranian airline. A common trick was used. During the delivery flight the aircraft suddenly diverted to Tehran. The operator of the aircraft in the past did multiple transfers of aircraft to Iran. Airbus A320 registered EY-314 had a flight plan departing Varna to Türkmenabat…
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…
In the night of May 24 2023 two Airbus A340-200 aircraft were spotted on Flightradar24 flying closely together heading towards Iran. The aircraft were registered in Mali wearing registration TZ-DTA (ICAO hex 05C081) and TZ-DTC (ICAO hex 05C086) The aircraft departed Kertajati International Airport in Indonesia, were spotted flying near the westcoast on India on…
Another Boeing 737-300 was delivered to Iran! Boeing 737-300 EP-PPB flew on January 5 2023 from Minsk to Tehran as flight SPN8344 using hex code 60111B. The aircraft was photographed in Minsk in an all white livery. ‘SPN’ is the three letter code of Iranian HESA Airlines. The actual airline which might be using the…
Iran airlines cannot buy Western aircraft equipped with US parts as a result of US sanctions. Between 2011 and 2016, Iran Air and other Iranian airlines were sanctioned under US Executive Orders 13382 (which aims to isolate financially proliferators of weapons of mass destruction and their supporters) and 13224 (issued as a response to the…
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…