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AIRFRAME HISTORY: 20998
Chronological order of events
Dates in Black are considered exact and dates in Red are approximate.

Date	Reg	Airline	Livery	Name	Event	Airport	Notes
1976-02-05					First Flight
1976-03-12	EP-IAA	Iran Air			Delivered
1976-05-01	EP-IAA	Iran Air	Original, round sticker on nose		Seen	LHR	Photo
1979-04-01	EP-IAA	Iran Air	Original, round sticker on nose		Seen	LHR	Photo
1979-10-01	EP-IAA	Iran Air	Original	Fars	Seen	ORY	Photo
1980-04-01	EP-IAA	Iran Air	Original	Fars	Seen	FRA	Photo
1984-12-01	EP-IAA	Iran Air	Old, metal engines	Kurdistan	Seen	GVA	Photo
1985-06-02	EP-IAA	Iran Air	Old	Kurdistan	Seen	LHR
1986-05-01	EP-IAA	Iran Air	Old, grey engine cowlings	Kurdistan	Seen	AMS	Photo
1992-06-28	EP-IAA	Iran Air	Old	Kurdistan	Seen	LHR	Photo
1994-07-15	EP-IAA	Iran Air	Old	Kurdistan	Seen	FRA	Photo
1995-07-12	EP-IAA	Iran Air	Old		Seen	ATH	Photo
1998-12-07	EP-IAA	Iran Air	New, grey belly	Kurdistan	Seen	GOT	First sighting of new Colours. Photo
1999-05-04	EP-IAA	Iran Air	New, grey belly	Kurdistan	Seen	NRT
2000-02-11	EP-IAA	Iran Air	New, grey belly	Kurdistan	Seen	ORY
2000-09-12	EP-IAA	Iran Air	New, grey belly	Kurdistan	Seen	AMS
2001-07-08	EP-IAA	Iran Air	New, grey belly	Kurdistan	Seen	AMS
2002-06-01	EP-IAA	Iran Air	New	Kurdistan	Seen		Photo
2003-09-03	EP-IAA	Iran Air	New, grey belly	Kurdistan	Seen	ORY	Photo
2004-03-29	EP-IAA	Iran Air	New, grey belly	Kurdistan	Seen	NRT	Photo
2004-08-01	EP-IAA	Iran Air		Kurdistan	Retired	THR	Reported to be WFU
2004-09-01	EP-IAA	Iran Air		Kurdistan	Stored	THR	Aircraft WFU, and used for parts.
2005-05-02	EP-IAA	Iran Air	New, grey belly	Kurdistan	Stored	THR	Aircraft parked in Iran Air maintenance area. Engines covered. Photo Photo Photo
2005-05-05	EP-IAA	Iran Air		Kurdistan	Stored	THR	Aircraft parked in Iran Air maintenance area. Engines covered.
2005-07-24	EP-IAA	Iran Air		Kurdistan	Seen	THR	On display at Tehran - Aerospace Exhibition. Photo Photo
2007-02-15	EP-IAA	Iran Air			Other	THR	Reported to be in the process of returning to service.
2008-01-26	EP-IAA	Iran Air			Seen	THR	Moved from nearby storage area. Seen being prepared for D-check. Photo
2008-05-07	EP-IAA	Iran Air	New, grey belly, Homa engines.	Persian Gulf	Other	THR	New name
2008-05-27	EP-IAA	Iran Air	New, grey belly, Homa engines.	Persian Gulf	Seen	THR	Back in service.
2008-07-15	EP-IAA	Iran Air	New, grey belly, Homa engines in light blue	Persian Gulf	Seen	HAM	First appearance in HAM after D-Check. Photo
2008-07-16	EP-IAA	Iran Air	New, grey belly, Homa engines in light blue	Persian Gulf	Seen	KUL	Photo
2008-08-01	EP-IAA	Iran Air	New, grey belly, Homa engines in light blue	Persian Gulf	Seen		Photo
2008-09-01	EP-IAA	Iran Air	New, grey belly, Homa engines in light blue	Persian Gulf	Seen	KUL	Photo
2008-09-21	EP-IAA	Iran Air			Seen		EP-IAA noted westbound over the UK at FL380 routing along Airway UL9.
2008-12-01	EP-IAA	Iran Air	New, grey belly, Homa engines.	Persian Gulf	Seen	NRT	Photo
2009-01-06	EP-IAA	Iran Air	New, grey belly, Homa engines.	Persian Gulf	Seen	LHR	Homa bird in now in dark blue. Photo
2009-03-12	EP-IAA	Iran Air	New, grey belly, Homa engines.	Persian Gulf	Seen	NRT	Seen while taxiing at Narita airport
2009-05-21	EP-IAA	Iran Air	New, grey belly, Homa engines.		Seen	HAM	Photo
2009-06-23	EP-IAA	Iran Air	New, grey belly, Homa engines.	Persian Gulf	Seen	LHR	Photo
2009-07-21	EP-IAA	Iran Air	New, grey belly, Homa engines.		Seen	HAM	Photo
2009-07-28	EP-IAA	Iran Air	New, grey belly, Homa engines.		Seen	HAM	Photo
2010-01-07	EP-IAA	Iran Air		Persian Gulf	Seen	CGN
2010-01-07	EP-IAA	Iran Air		Persian Gulf	Seen	CGN
2010-02-21	EP-IAA	Iran Air	New, grey belly, Homa engines.	Persian Gulf	Seen	HAM
2010-04-16	EP-IAA	Iran Air	New, grey belly, Homa engines.	Persian Gulf	Seen	FRA	Parked due to volcanic ash Photo
2010-07-06	EP-IAA	Iran Air			Other		Banned from EU. Source Document
2011-04-11	EP-IAA	Iran Air	New, grey belly, Homa engines.	Persian Gulf	Seen	KUL	Parked at gate, headed to Tehran.
2011-05-26	EP-IAA	Iran Air	New, grey belly, Homa engines.	Persian Gulf	Seen	PEK	Photo
2011-06-12	EP-IAA	Iran Air	New, grey belly, Homa engines.	Persian Gulf	Seen	PEK	Photo
2012-03-25	EP-IAA	Iran Air	New, grey belly, Homa , white engines.	Persian Gulf	Seen	PEK	Photo
2012-07-22	EP-IAA	Iran Air	New, grey belly, Homa, white engines.	Persian Gulf	Seen	PEK	Photo
2012-09-19	EP-IAA	Iran Air			Other		USA issued sanctions on EP-IAA Source Document
2013-06-03	EP-IAA	Iran Air			Maintenance	THR	Currently in C-check
2014-01-03	EP-IAA	Iran Air		Persian Gulf	Seen	IKA	Operated IKA and KUL as IR840.
2014-06-01	EP-IAA	Iran Air		Persian Gulf	Stored	THR	Parked
2018-02-27	EP-IAA	Iran Air	All white		Seen	THR	Painted white and towed to Yashi ramp at THR (Scrapyard) Photo
2018-03-01	EP-IAA	Iran Air		Persian Gulf	Retired	THR	Planned to be scrapped
2018-06-01	EP-IAA	No Titles	All white		Seen	THR	Stored
2018-07-13	EP-IAA	No Titles	All white		Seen	THR	Parked
2018-12-27	EP-IAA	No Titles	All white		Seen	THR	Stored
2020-09-20	EP-IAA	Iran Air			For Sale		For sale by Iran Air

AIRFRAME PHOTOS

EP-IAA 747SP Iran Air
Old colours
Year: 1994-07-15
Airport: FRA
Photo: Remi Dallot

EP-IAA 747SP Iran Air
Year: 2004-03-29
Airport: NRT
Photo: Sam Chui

EP-IAA 747SP Iran Air
Year: 2005-07-24
Airport: THR
Photo: Shary

EP-IAA 747SP Iran Air
Livery: Original colours
Year: 2008-07-15
Airport: HAM
Photo: Lars Hentschel

EP-IAA 747SP Iran Air
Year: 2009-01-06
Airport: LHR
Photo: Helmut Schnichels

EP-IAA 747SP Iran Air
Year: 2009-07-21
Airport: HAM
Photo: Lars Hentschel

EP-IAA 747SP Iran Air
Year: 2009-07-28
Airport: HAM
Photo: Lars Hentschel

EP-IAA 747SP Iran Air
Year: 2009-05-21
Airport: HAM
Photo: Lars Hentschel

EP-IAA 747SP Iran Air
New livery, Homa on engines
Year: 2008-08-xx
Airport: ?
Photo: Tommy Mogren Collection

EP-IAA 747SP Iran Air
Original livery
Name: Fars
Year: 1979-10-xx
Airport: ORY
Photo: C. Laugier - Tommy Mogren Collection

EP-IAA 747SP Iran Air
Old colours
Date: ??
Airport: AMS

EP-IAA 747SP Iran Air
New livery
Date: 2002-06
Airport: ??
Photo: Tommy Mogren Collection

EP-IAA 747SP Iran Air
Livery: Round sticker in nose
Year: 1976

EP-IAA 747SP Iran Air
Livery: Original colours
Year: 1979-04-01
Airport: LHR
Photo: Mick West

EP-IAA 747SP Iran Air
Old colours, Old titles
1980 at FRA

EP-IAA 747SP Iran Air
Old colours
Date: 1984
Airport: GVA

Airport: ATH
Photo: Alex Philippopoulos

EP-IAA 747SP Iran Air
Old colours
1992-06-28 at LHR
Photo: Tim Rees

EP-IAA 747SP Iran Air
New colours
1998 at GOT
Photo: Tommy Mogren

Iran Air 747SP EP-IAA
Airport: GOT
Photo: Håkan Christoffersson

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AIRFRAME HISTORY: 20998
Chronological order of events
Dates in Black are considered exact and dates in Red are approximate.