Summary United Airlines retired one of its Airbus A320 aircraft after 30 years of service. Pinal Airpark in Arizona was its final destination. United operates a diverse fleet of over 900 aircraft, including Airbus A320 family and Boeing 737 planes, among others.
The sun recently set on another old aircraft – this time a United Airlines' Airbus A320. The plane made its final trip to an aircraft storage facility in Arizona after serving the airline for three decades. United operates a diverse fleet of aircraft, of which the Airbus A320 family of jets form a substantial chunk.
United retires an A320 On September 7, a United Airlines Airbus A320-200 airplane flew from Denver International Airport (DEN) to Pinal Airpark (MZJ) in Marana, Arizona. While the airfield also provides aircraft maintenance services, among other things, for many airplanes, it becomes their final resting place. United’s A320 in question is registered as N419UA.
While its overall age is a little over 30 years, it was delivered to United on October 3, 1994, and would have completed thirty years of service for the carrier in another few weeks. United ordered the plane in 1992, and it took its first flight on July 11, 1994, before being delivered to the carrier. As of May 2024, it has accumulated more than 90,000 flight hours across 36,066 flight cycles, according to data by ch-aviation .
Before its flight to Marana, the aircraft had flown from New York’s LaGuardia Airport (LGA) to Denver and, prior to th.