Mahan Air (W5, Tehran Mehrabad) took delivery of a maiden A321-200 this past weekend adding to the seven A340-600s and one A340-300 that were ferried from Iraq on May 8.
Sources in Tehran inform ch-aviation that as with the A340s, the ex-Sichuan Airlines (3U, Chengdu Shuangliu) A321-200 2-WGLP (cn 550) was originally registered with Iraq's Al-Naser Airlines (Baghdad) prior to its transfer.
Iranian news reports state that inclusive of this delivery, the embargoed country has acquired a total of seventeen second-hand civilian aircraft in the last three months. Of the seventeen, the other eight aircraft include a B737-500 for Sepehran Airlines (IS, Shiraz) as well as an ARJ-85 and an A310-300 for Taban Air (TBN, Mashad). Two other aircraft (make unknown) have also been acquired for spare parts.
