Malaysia's airport operator Berhad have taken out newspaper adverts along with photos of the dumped aircraft in a final bid to get the planes removed.
The notices warn the Boeing 747-200s, sitting idle at Kuala Lumpur airport, must be collected within 14 days or the airport can sell or dispose of them.
Officials have said the move is aimed at recovering debts owed to the airport following "exhaustive steps" to find the owners, believed to be defunct foreign firms.
According to Malaysia's The Star newspaper, Iceland-based Air Atlanta Icelandic said it operated the planes until 2010 but did not know who owned the planes now.
Some aviation enthusiasts claim to have linked two of the three planes to Malaysia Airlines, saying that their cargo branch leased them after the Icelandic airline let them go.
But a press officer for the airline denied owning the planes.
They told The Star: "If it was ours, we would have claimed it."
If the planes were to be sold, there would likely be little market for them due to dwindling demand for four-engine jets and a struggling air cargo market.
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