A Must Read: List of Nigerian Commercial Planes and their Ages

I saw this on Linda Ikeji and just had to share it, I feel this will help us carefully choose which airline to book just to be safe...

The list was gotten from Planespotters.net, a civil aviation database with 200000+ photos and information on 30000+ aircrafts. 

And what you will find after the cut is a comprehensive list of all aircrafts used in Nigeria and their ages. There's actually a 30+ year old plane flying in Nigeria. 


Aero Contractors Current Fleet

5N-BIZ 24558 1845 Boeing 737-4B7 01-02-2007 N436US 22.2 Years

5N-BJA 24873 1931 Boeing 737-4B7 05-2007 N446US lsf Jet Partners LLC 21.7 Years

5N-BJO 534 De Havilland Canada DHC-8-311Q Dash 8 Y50 23-02-2007 C-FLGJ lsd 12.9 Years

5N-BKQ 26695 2423 Boeing 737-522 28-08-2008 VP-BSW lsf GECAS 19.4 Years

5N-BKR 26699 2485 Boeing 737-522 14-08-2008 VP-BSX lsf GECAS 19 Years

5N-BLC 26692 2421 Boeing 737-522 26-09-2008 VP-BSV 19.4 Years

5N-BLD 26675 2345 Boeing 737-522 10-08-2008 VP-BSU lsf GECAS 19.9 Years

5N-BLE 26672 2343 Boeing 737-522 02-04-2009 VP-BSQ 19.9 Years

5N-BLG 25387 2179 Boeing 737-522 28-08-2011 VP-BTI 20.5 Years

5N-BLH 25383 2146 Boeing 737-522 Due VP-BTG lsf WFBN 20.7 Years

5N-BOB 24232 2060 Boeing 737-42C 26-03-2012 EI-CWE lsf AWAS 21 Years

5N-BOC 24814 2270 Boeing 737-42C 17-10-2011 EI-CWF lsf AWAS 20.2 Years

Wow! See more after the cut...

"Air Nigeria" Is A Flying Coffin, Former Executive Director Says

John I. Nnorom, a former Executive Director for Finance at Air Nigeria, has warned Nigerians to stop flying the airline until they are sure that its planes are being properly maintained.  

In a blistering public petition, Mr. Nnorom, who resigned his appointment with the airline on April 1, 2012, blamed the situation on big businessman Jimoh Ibrahim, the chairman of Air Nigeria, whom he accused of being uninterested in the maintenance of company aircraft.  

“Some of the certifying Engineers and I are under threat of assassination by Barrister Jimoh Ibrahim, if we reveal this secret to Nigerians,” he said.

Mr. Nnorom said that upon his resignation, he wrote a letter in which he said he preferred to die than to be a witness to over 100 souls perishing in an Air Nigeria aircraft.

He disclosed that Air Nigeria is in financial crisis because money loaned by Bank of Industry of N35.5Billion has been diverted into Mr. Ibrahim’s NICON INVESTMENT LTD, a non-finance company popularly called wonder bank, leading to air safety being compromised, and stressed that there is a great possibility of a disastrous Air Nigeria crash, which can occur at any time.