Baltia Air Lines Inc. (fka BLTA)

[Carsmax177]

All IMO,

I was thinking about the changing of the landing gear. First, the plane already went through the D Check, meaning BLTA was confident that everything on the plane would handle their needs and could be inspected/certified for service. Probably BLTA looked at their projected capacity listed on pro formas and figured out the limit on weight when they would need to upgrade landing gear to accommodate growing demand in passenger and cargo service.

Being the plane completed D Check with the old landing gear, that would imply that the landing gear that was equipped was able to handle cargo and passengers that BLTA was projecting on proving flights and beginning of service. Now they were changed out. Something changed between the check and now, that the decision was made the landing gear needed changed now to handle extra capacity. Keep in mind it was posted that BLTA is possibly lining up cargo contracts for proving flights. So, maybe when they started actually lining up the contracts, ,maybe they found they greatly underestimated the demand for cargo service, both domestic and overnight to Russia, and the weight limit would be hit sooner, on proving flights, than anticipated?

All IMO of course.