This B-737 aircraft is cn #23024/965, a 737-291. It was built in May 1983 and delivered to Frontier that same month. It was acquired by Continental Airlines in October 1986. In September 1988 it went to GPA and then was leased to Indian Airlines in November 1988. It was returned to GPA in February 1990 and then leased to Air Sul in March 1990. It was returned to GPA in March 1992. It went to Air Atlantis in June 1992 then to LAN Chile in October 1992 then transferred to LAN Peru in July 1999. It was returned to LAN Chile in January 2001 and went to Bellview Airlines in August 2003. It was grounded by government order in December 2005 and sat without engines in May 2008.