CH Aviation:

By Dominik Sipinski

Five B777-200ERs were ferried from Siem Reap New Angkor International into Iran on July 15, 2025, having been previously provisionally registered in Madagascar, ostensibly for shadowy start-up UDAAN Aviation.

5R-RIS (msn 32334), 5R-ISA (msn 30866), 5R-HER (msn 28522), 5R-IJA (msn 28527), and 5R-RIJ (msn 33369) were ferried directly from Cambodia to Iran in short succession. Iranian media reported that two landed at Chah Bahar, two at Zahedan, and one at Mashad. ch-aviation has independently verified only the arrival of 5R-HER at Mashad.

The B777s were last operated by NokScoot until the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. As shareholder and aircraft owner Singapore Airlines Group decided to liquidate the Thai LCC, the aircraft were transferred back to Singapore Airlines, placed on the Singaporean register, and ferried to Alice Springs for long-term storage. They were then acquired by Florida-based company Ion Aviation LLC between September 2023 and February 2024, and reregistered in the United States. Under their US registrations, they were ferried to Lanzhou between October 2023 and March 2024. They were later deregistered from the US by late March 2024 and exported to Hong Kong.

Their later registration(s) and owner(s) are not known. While ADS-B evidence of their ferry flights from China via Cambodia to Iran is limited, at least one aircraft - N99001, now 5R-RIJ - was parked at Jakarta Soekarno-Hatta between late May and early July 2025.

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