Will the Owner of This Boeing 727 Please Pick Up the White Courtesy Phone?

According to the folks at Jetphotos.net, there's a lovely Boeing 727 parked on the ramp at an airport in Vietnam and nobody knows who owns it.  The aircraft, which once flew for American Airlines, is registered as XU-RJK, with a Boeing serial number of 20989. Jetphoto sez:

Vietnamese aviation authorities still haven’t been able to find out who is the owner of a Boeing 727-200 that has been left at the Hanoi-based Noi Bai International Airport after several months of searching. The aircraft, which bears a strange name “Air Dream", has been parked at Noi Bai Airport for over six months. The aircraft flew several times after arriving at the airfield, transporting passengers from Siem Reap (Cambodia) to Hanoi and vice versa, but since then has been left idle at the airfield. Neither the crew nor owner can be found.

Though the aircraft has a Cambodian flag on its fuselage, nobody has any information about an airline named Air Dream in Cambodia. There is also no information about Air Dream on the website of the International Aviation Transport Association (IATA) nor the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO).

According to officials of Noi Bai Airport, this aircraft had a breakdown in late 2007. Representatives of some airlines say that perhaps the owner abandoned this aircraft in order to not have to pay parking fees, which are quite high. They say this is the most mysterious case that they have seen though.

What's next?  Pictures of 727s on milk cartons?  Sad 727s waiting at the Lost and Found?

(Tip of the first officer's cap: Fred!)

LINK:
Excuse me sir, is this your Boeing 727?? (Jetphoto.net blog post)

(IMAGE: by nguyenphuong via jetphotos.net.)

Comments

[Ari Herzog]

Heh.

Someone has since added the data to Wikipedia.

[Jones Beach]

Speaking of mysterious 727s, what about the one that was stolen in Africa two years ago... did they ever solve that one?

[Jones Beach]

I just did a search for said stolen 727 which was last seen in Guinea in 2003... apparently it was also ex-American Airlines, serial number 20985. Awfully 'similar' to this one. Coincidence?