Tunisair (TU, Tunis) has found a buyer for its three parked A300B4-605Rs the Aerotunisie news site has reported.
TS-IPA (msn 558), TS-IPB (msn 563), and TS-IPC (msn 505) were withdrawn from service last year and have been in storage at Tunis Carthage International Airport ever since. As such, they will shortly be ferried to the United States where they have been acquired by an undisclosed American spare-part and tear-down firm.
The aircraft, which average twenty-seven years of age, all feature General Electric CF6-80C2A5 powerplants.
Tunisair also has a quartet of parked CFM56-3B1-powered B737-500s which, Aerotunisie indicates, is up for disposal as well. Niger Airlines (6N, Niamey) was linked to the lease of two of the machines late last year amid plans to use them to open up flights from Niamey to Cotonou Cadjehoun, Ouagadougou, Bamako, and Dakar Yoff-Léopold Sédar Senghor International.
The Tunisian state-owned firm retired both types of aircraft as part of a fleet renewal plan which involved the consolidation of its fleet around a single manufacturer - Airbus (AIB, Toulouse Blagnac). At present, Tunisair operates four A319-100s, seventeen A320-200s, two A330-200s, and seven B737-600s.
