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Четыре Airbus прилетели в Минск для продажи в Сирию и Иран?
The editors of motolko.help noticed that on 17.08.2024, four planes produced by Airbus with the following registration numbers arrived at Minsk National Airport:
- Airbus A320-200, reg.number C5-TAA (S/N 2600) – arrived at 06:51 (Minsk time) from Istanbul;
- Airbus A330-200, reg.number C5-TAB (S/N 525) – arrived at 15:55 from Muscat;
- Airbus A330-200, reg.number C5-TAC (S/N 509) – arrived at 00:05 from Cairo;
- Airbus A330-200, reg.number C5-TAD (S/N 491) – arrived at 16:01 from Muscat.
Relocation of Magic Air planes to Belarus, 17.08.2024 / motolko.help
At the time of transportation to Belarus, the planes were registered by Magic Air (Gambia) Company Limited, an unremarkable company from Gambia, and were in storage in different countries of the world.
Russian aviation media immediately assumed that the mentioned planes would be transferred from Minsk to Russia, since there are those who operate similar models among Russian airlines. The same opinion was expressed on the pages of the German Bild.de, but in even more radical wording: «Four planes for Putin: Secret Airbus smuggling to Russia.»
At the moment, five days later, one of the planes (C5-TAA) received a new registration number – YK-BAC, indicating Syria as the country of registration, and now belonging to the fleet of the Syrian Cham Wings Airlines. The company is known for being sanctioned by the U.S., Ukraine and Switzerland, including for its involvement in the supply of illegal migrants to Belarus, and it is also involved in the transportation of weapons and militants of PMC Wagner.
New reg.number of Airbus A330-200 (former C5-TAA) – YK-BAC / planespotters
On 22.08.2024 at 20:27, the Airbus A320-200 plane with registration number YK-BAC departed from Minsk to Damascus.
Airbus A320-200 (YK-BAC) flew from Minsk to Damascus, 22.08.2024, 20:27. Serial number of the plane — 02600 / flightradar24
Thus, the theory about the transfer of Airbus planes to Russia hasn’t been confirmed yet. However, there is a good chance that the remaining aircraft will also be transferred to Syria (with a lower probability) and Iran (which is more likely, since the three remaining aircraft are «large» models of Airbus A330-200, which are in demand by Iranian airlines).
In Belarus, the planes can undergo minimal maintenance, besides, in this way the owner simply covers the tracks of dubious deals on the sale of the aircraft to sanctioned countries.
We recall that earlier we have repeatedly told about the transit of planes through Belarus to Iran.
And also about such manipulations through a company from Gambia with planes stored in Lithuania and transferred to Iran.
By the way, there is a continuation in this story: the third Airbus A340-600 with the Gambian number C5-MIB, which was stuck in Siauliai after our article, managed to change its registration to the American one – N340YY – and yesterday evening (August 22) it flew from Lithuania to France for storage.
