The two new Dash 8 Q400 aircraft of Shree Airlines are getting fresh livery paint while parked at the isolation parking bay at the eastern side of Tribhuvan International Airport.
The newly aircraft acquired aircraft by Shree Airlines have Civil Aviation registration number ‘9N-AOK’ and 9N-AOL’. After the paint job gets completed in few days and only a few paper works to be done the carrier has anticipated the two aircraft to come in service of Nepali Sky very soon.
The company took delivery of 4 Canadian-made Bombardier Dash-8 Q400 aircraft with 80-seat capacity, two in 2019 and two more in 2022. Before that, it introduced 50 and 70 seater CRJ aircraft for domestic flights after Saurya Airlines.
Shree Airlines has two CRJ-200, two CRJ-700, and six Q-400 Turboprop aircraft after the addition of 2 more aircraft. Shree will be operating altogether 10 fixed wing aircrafts and a total of 18 fleet size including helicopters.
The Pilots flew these two new aircraft all the way from Portland to Tribhuvan International Airport on Tuesday, 26th of March. The aircraft was being flown under command of Capt. Ritesh Karn and Capt. Biraj Rajbansi.
‘9N-AOK’ and ‘9N-AOL’, the two new aircraft of Shree, were delivered by Manufacturer to Horizon Air, Alaska Airlines (previous operator) in June 2011 and March 2011 respectively. Therefore, both the aircraft are in the verse of completing 13 years of service this year.
