Alaska Airlines is honoring the legacy of its former long-time CEO Brad Tilden (right below) with the next MAX 9 delivery.
Photo: Alaska Airlines.
The pictured Boeing 737-9 MAX 9 was originally registered as N920AK (msn 44088, ln 8066), but it is now registered as N291BT.
Executives from Alaska Airlines and Boeing sign the agreement. (From left to right: Stan Deal, Boeing Commercial Airplanes President and CEO; Ihssane Mounir, Boeing Vice President of Commercial Sales and Marketing; Ben Minicucci, Alaska Airlines President; and Brad Tilden, Alaska Air Group CEO.)
For the first flight on June 14, 2021 the new registration was applied over the original when photographed.
Copyright Photo: Joe G. Walker.
The aircraft also still bears the fleet number of 920 on the nose gear door and above the cockpit windows.ย ย It is presumed that these numbers will be changed and name added prior to handover to the carrier.
Joe G. Walker reporting from Seattle.
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