Air Nauru now expects to have its own aircraft back in operation early next month, six months after a creditor impounded the company's only plane.
The EXIM Bank in the United States took back the aircraft after several years of non payment on a debt of around ten million US dollars.
Air Nauru has in the interim been operating a skeleton service using charter aircraft.
The financially troubled country, with funding from Taiwan, has been able to purchase another 737 which was expected in service by late last month.
The chief executive, Geof Bowmaker, says it has taken longer than thought to finalise the deal, but he says it should be completed by the end of this week.
"Simultaneous to that several of our pilots will be heading over to Phoenix [Arizona] next week. We have to go through a bit of a process of deregistering it off the US register, getting it on the Australian register, that sort of thing."
