Frontier Airlines Aer Lingus Boeing 737-200 Arrowjet

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The Boeing 737 is a narrow-body airliner produced by Boeing at its Renton factory in Washington. Developed to supplement the Boeing 727 on short routes, the twinjet retained the 707 fuselage width and six abreast seating but with two underwing Pratt & Whitney JT8D low-bypass turbofan engines. Envisioned in 1964, the initial 737-100 made its first flight in April 1967 and entered service in February 1968 with Lufthansa. The lengthened 737-200 entered service in April 1968, and evolved through four generations, offering several variants for 85 to 215 passengers.

Frontier Airlines was created on June 1, 1950 as a merger of three carriers; Monarch Air Lines of Denver, Arizona Airways of Phoenix, and Challenger Airlines of Salt Lake City. Frontier was based in Denver at the former offices of Monarch Air Lines and initial routes through New Mexico included an Albuquerque to Salt Lake City route with stops at Gallup and Farmington, NM, Durango, Cortez and Grand Junction, CO, and Price and Provo, UT. Frontier began using the Boeing 737’s in 1969 and that aircraft became the predominant jet for the carrier. Two Boeing 737-200’s were leased from Aer Lingus for the winter of 1977 – 78 and were routed randomly across the Frontier system.

This Frontier Airlines and Aer Lingus Boeing 737-200 N72605 aircraft was one of the two used by Frontier as a result of an arranged a lease agreement. The word “Frontier” was added to the basic Aer Lingus color scheme. This aircraft was flown to the Albuquerque Sunport in January of 1978.

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