Inquiry about egyptair’s old a320s and b735s

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Hello everyone, I know my question might be silly, but for each of Egyptair's old a320 and b735 planes, I want to know if on July 22, 2011 it was active, parked, or stored. And I also want to know what it was painted like as of that day. (Whether it was painted as egyptair's old livery or new livery or was painted white or was leased to another airline etc.)
The reason for this is that I want to figure out which plane I have flown on, on July 22, 2011. I asked on the registration forum but they were not able to find it as the was probably not recorded sadly, so I do a research and for now I want to keep ruling out aircraft from the possible ones. Unfortunately, I didn't take any picture on the flight day, but I remember some details. I want to rule out the planes that were inactive as of July 22, 2011 and also rule out those that were painted as something that is NOT this egyptairs new livery:
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The plane I have flown on was painted in the new livery like the photo above. And it had a 3-3 seat arrangement, and was significantly smaller than 737-800s and a321s. So it was either an a320 or a b737-500.
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Unfortunately, I don't even remember the window's shape as I know that in egyptair a320s have rounded windows and b735s have more rectangular ones, but I don't remember what the window looked like.
But I remember that the seats of the plane in my flight had this pattern:
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So far, SU-GBI was ruled out because it was in the 2000s, also SU-GBK was ruled out because it was always painted in white. That leaves me with 16 possible planes:

SU-GBA,SU-GBB,SU-GBC,SU-GBD,SU-GBE,SU-GBF,SU-GBG,SU-GBH,SU-GBJ,SU-GBL,SU-GBZ,SU-GCA,SU-GCB,SU-GCC(crashed in 2016💔),SU-GCD,SU-GCL

so what I need from you guys is, if you can help me provide any info about whether any of the 16 planes above was inactive (parked/stored) on july 22, 2011, or if any of them was painted in something other than new livery as of july 22, 2011, or if it's seats had a different seat pattern than the one above, as of july 22, 2011, Because then I can rule out more planes.
Thank you so much for your help
 
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Apparently, all mentioned airframes already wore the new livery as of July 2011.

If you compare the cabin designs of an Airbus A320 (this photo actually shows an EgyptAir A320) to a Boeing 737-500 (not showing an EgyptAir cabin here), you might be able to remember if your plane looked more like an A320 or a B737.

If your plane was equipped with those fold-down LCD screens above the seatrows, you definitively travelled onboard one of EgyptAir’s A320s delivered in 2003.
 

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Apparently, all mentioned airframes already wore the new livery as of July 2011.

If you compare the cabin designs of an Airbus A320 (this photo actually shows an EgyptAir A320) to a Boeing 737-500 (not showing an EgyptAir cabin here), you might be able to remember if your plane looked more like an A320 or a B737.

If your plane was equipped with those fold-down LCD screens above the seatrows, you definitely traveled onboard one of EgyptAir's A320s delivered in 2003.
Thank you so much for your response!
My plane definitely had LCD screens above the seatrows that showed the altitude, speed and so, but I don't remember whether or not it was foldable.
Did the 737-500s not have this screen or what?😄

But on jetphotos, I found this picture from the plane SU-GBA which is an older a320 delivered on the 90s I think it seems to have the screen too

Also, by some googling I found this photo from inside the 737-500 SU-GBJ :

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I'm not sure what this thing that the arrow points to is, is it an LCD screen too? Or something else?

So can I now safely say it was an a320 and rule out the 737-500s? But I still can't rule out the older a320s
 
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But on jetphotos, I found this picture from the plane SU-GBA which is an older a320 delivered on the 90s I think it seems to have the screen too
Seems like EgyptAir retrofitted these LCD screens to their early-90ies A320s in order to harmonize their cabin. So you may indeed have travelled on any of their A320s.

I'm not sure what this thing that the arrow points to is, is it an LCD screen too? Or something else?
Those old generation B737s (-300, -400, -500) were not equipped with fold-down LCD screen. Back then, if an airline wanted to offer any form of entertainment, CRT screens above the aisle were the only available option (see this photo).
 

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Thank you so much for your response!
My plane definitely had LCD screens above the seatrows that showed the altitude, speed and so, but I don't remember whether or not it was foldable.
Did the 737-500s not have this screen or what?😄

But on jetphotos, I found this picture from the plane SU-GBA which is an older a320 delivered on the 90s I think it seems to have the screen too

Also, by some googling I found this photo from inside the 737-500 SU-GBJ :

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I'm not sure what this thing that the arrow points to is, is it an LCD screen too? Or something else?
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