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Airbus A330-243 Air Serbia YU-ARB "Nikola Tesla"


Airbus A330-243 Air Serbia YU-ARB "Nikola Tesla"

YU-ARB is with an age of 12.5 years, a middle aged A332. It started it career with Aeroflot - Russian Airlines in December 2008. It´s previous Registration was VP-BLY. It was flying for Aeroflot until August 2020. From then on it was painted white and stored at Hong Kong Airport. Meanwhile Air Serbia was looking to replace its current A330-203 YU-ARA. They bought this A330 and it left HKG in march, to be painted in Shannon. There it received the "Nikola Tesla" colours. It was stored at Woensdrecht Air Base for another month until finally being ferried to Belgrade. Shortly after that its predecessor YU-ARA was retired and YU-ARB is now Air Serbia's only long-haul jet.