EI-BED "St. Kieran" - Boeing 747-100 - Aer Lingus

Built: 1970
C/N: 19748/44
Operations:
Aircraft was built in 1970 and started service with Lufthansa as D-ABYC, named "Bayern".

In 1979 the aircraft was sold to ITEL Corporation and leased to Aer Lingus, re-registered EI-BED. The aircraft arrived with Aer Lingus in January and stayed there until October the same year. Originally it was named St. Kieran and then changed to St. Patrick.

In October 1979, the aircraft was leased to Air Algerie maintaining its registration and operating in Aer Lingus colours with Air Algerie stickers. In April, 1980 the aircraft was returned to Aer Lingus.

In November 1986, the aircraft was leased to Air Jamaica and remained there until April 1987. Again it remained in Aer Lingus livery with Air Jamaica stickers.

Again the aircraft was returned to Aer Lingus in April, 1987. In November of the same year the aircraft was leased to Qantas and remained there until Feburary 1988 in Aer Lingus livery.

Aircraft was leased to LAN Chile in December, 1988 and stayed there until March, 1990.

The aircraft was then returned to Aer Lingus and operated under lease until April, 1993. In that month the aircraft was sold to Aer Lingus from GATX who owned the aircraft at the time. It operated its final revenue service on the 5th of October 1994.

The aircraft was ferried to Marana in Feburary 1995 after 5 months in storage in Dublin. It stayed there and was sold to Westco International in  July 1996 and the same month was sold to Jetaway Aviation Services. Directly after that it was stricken from the Irish Register. Scrapage of the aircraft began in August 1996.

The aircraft was photographed in 1997 at Manara.

Naturally the aircraft was scrapped here. From here it seems that the aircraft was taken apart and used for parts. The cockpit section was seen in 2003 in Tucson (Ironically, the city that the aircraft transited through to get to Manara).