Airliner joins Pima collection

摘要

Boeing 737-300 N7598A, most recently in service with China Southern Airlines, has been added to the immense collection of aircraft at the Pima Air S Space Museum in Tucson, Arizona. Lou Mancini, senior vice president of Boeing's commercial aviation department, officially handed the jet over on November 4 at a ceremony attended by several local dignitaries. The airliner, one of 1,113 Boeing 737-300s built, was flown into neighbouring Davis-Monthan, and towed - with crew still aboard - into position at Pima. Built at Renton, Washington, N7598A was delivered on September 23,1993 to China Southern Airlines which operated it for its entire 'career'. It was retired from use in 2012 and returned to Boeing. In December of the same year, the manufacturer announced it would donate the machine to Pima.