Boeing 737s | 2001

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Airline - Global Airlines
Aircraft - Boeing 737-200Adv | N65569
Delivered to Global Airlines, 1985
Stored at Pinal Airpark, 2001
Scrapped at Pinal Airpark, 2004
Livery - Standard 1994
Country - United States of America

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Airline - Global Airlines
Aircraft - Boeing 737-300 | N4556G
Delivered to Global Airlines, 1991
Sold to ILFC, 2008
Leased to Bŭlgarska, 2008
Returned to ILFC, 2017
Sold to the Boeing Capital Corporation, 2017
Stored at Victorville, 2017
Livery - Standard 1994
Country - United States of America

This image shows two Global Airlines 737s. The first is a 737-200Adv, registered N65569. It was the third-to-last 737-200 delivered to the airline, and the very last 737-200 to be retired, when it was stored in 2001. The carrier's 737-200s had been slowly being sold off and stored for over ten years, since 1989, however this process was quickly accelerated after around 1997, when the large numbers of new A320s being delivered completely removed the need for small, inefficient 737-200s to remain in the fleet. The second aircraft shown here is a 737-300, registered N4556G, which had a seventeen-year service life with Global Airlines. In 2001, the 737-300 sub-fleet was at its peak, with 126 aircraft in service. The type was, at the time, the backbone of the domestic narrowbody fleet, with only 67 A320s having been delivered at the time (though the A320 subfleet would eventually grow to be much larger)