Humberside Airport and Doncaster Airport Friday 16th February.

     Had a few hours out today, mainly for a certain Nigerian Embraer ER145 that arrived at Humberside the day before, while also popping into Doncaster for the French Xingu and the rare Ryanair 737-700 on the way back home. Cheers to Rich Bowater for doing the driving and company!

Humberside Airport (11.10am - 12.10pm) Obviously the main reason for the visit was for the Bristow Nigerian Embraer ERJ145 5N-BSO which arrived from Badajoz yesterday afternoon. Not much else went in the box apart from the two stored ex Brindabella Airlines BAe Jetstream 41's which have now been moved to a more photogenic place for a shot..  with VH-XNF being the best!

 Doncaster Airport (12.40pm - 14.00pm)  So...  after catching the rare Ryanair Boeing 737-700 EI-SEV on its last touch and go as (RYR100) before departing back to East Midlands, we headed round to the terminal/GA side with several going in the box, mostly based stuff, but still worthy of a shot or two..  Firstly was the very impressive Boeing 727-200's of 2Excel with only G-OSRB getting worked. Next was Ce525 CitationJet M2 N902MZ in for maintenance no doubt with Textron having arrived on the 11th February, and lastly another reason for visiting was to catch the departure of the French Air Force EMB121 Xingu 084 which routed from and to Avord Air Base as (CTM1726).

 

 Doncaster Airport Saturday 24th March.

    With no less than three Antonov AN12s arriving last night, it had to be a blast down and hope they all stopped in, unfortunately one left just before midnight, and the weather was awful, but two out of three isn't bad!!

Doncaster Airport (09.30am - 13.40pm)  Of the two Antonov AN12s that were still in... Cavok Air AN12 UR-CNN arrived lastnight from Gothenburg as (CVK7026) and departed to Leipzig as (CVK7027), while sister ship, which also arrived lastnight from Gothenburg as (VIZ103) was UR-CCP of Aerovis Airlines, and was due out to Liege as (VIZ101F) on the 30th, others worth a mention were the semi based 2Excel/TAG Aviation Boeing 737-300 G-TGPG which arrived from Cork as (BRO37A) on March 21st, G-FJET Ce550 Citation II which routed from and to Luton as (LNX34FJ), and lastly over at Textron for maintenance were, Ce525 Citationjet M2 G-CMTO arrived from Chester/Broughton 19/12/2017, and G-JJET Ce510 Citation Mustang which arrived from Blackpool 01/02/2018.

 

A blast down south for the CHOGM 2018 meeting 14th/15th April.

 

 

 

Newcastle Airport 20th June.

Newcastle Airport (18.45pm - 19.00pm)  A couple of interesting visitors at Newcastle today, so a blast up after work produced the following in not so good light for photography...  Heavily modified Beech 350 N60125 arrived from Marseille, while new for Bhutan Airlines on delivery, was ex Frontier Airbus A319 A5-DOR which routed in from Tampa-Vancouver as (BTN781), both left the next morning, the beech to Stornoway, while the A319 to Athens, Delhi and finally its new base of Paro Airport in Bhutan.

 

East Midlands 28th June

      The annual evening blast down to the midlands in late June to shoot the cargo movements and some Jet2 Boeing 737-300s, which seen me head down straight from work and arrive around 6pm for four hours of a most enjoyable evening shooting the comings and goings at this European cargo hub in brilliant light!

 East Midlands (18.10pm - 22.05pm) Just as i arrived the delayed AeroLogic Boeing 777-200F D-AALF was on approach as (BOX391) from Cincinnati, and left to Leipzig as (BOX111) a couple of hours later. Not really a cargo flight but Boeing 737-800 G-GDFF headed out to Alicante as (EXS639) and was in basic Jet2 holiday Colours. Not often you see a Russian registered light aircraft in the UK but Cessna 182 Skylane RA-2848G landed and headed straight into maintenance, while temporarily based Be200 Super King Air EC-MME arrived from Inverness as (GPM91K). Back to the heavy metal...  DHL/European Air Transport Airbus A300-600F departed for the short flight down to London Heathrow as (DHL840). Jet2 Boeing 737-300 G-CELY arrived from Leeds Bradford as (ESX300T) and after having two hours in the circuit headed back to its origin as (EXS301T). A second AeroLogic Boeing 777-200F D-AALC routed in the opposite direction to its earlier sister ship as (BOX110/390), meanwhile another Jet2 Boeing 737-300 G-CELH arrived from Reus as (EXS684). Routing from and to Milan Malpensa as (SWT7251/2) was Swiftair EMB120 Brasilia EC-HAK, whilst routing from and to Belfast International as (NPT01A/B) was the first Boeing 737-800 to be converted to a Freighter, the West Atlantic machine G-NPTA is a common sight here at EMA operating this route twice a night during the week. FAI Rent a Jet Learjet 55 D-CONU 'on a medical flight' arrivied from Rhodes as (IFA2428) and departed to Nuremberg as (IFA2436) later in the evening, while based Cessna F406 Caravan G-RVLW arrived from Dublin as (REV2143). West Atlantic Boeing 737-300F G-JMCT routed from and to Jersey as (NPT23H/I) and was still in its pervious basic colours of Titan Airways... then seen a couple of Boeing 767-300F arrivals from across the pond and a 767-200F from northern Ireland, UPS Machine N343UP routed Philadelphia-EMA-Cologne as (UPS237) while DHL UK G-DHLG arrived from New York JFK as (DHK971), and a Star Air example OY-SRF which routed Belfast International-EMA-Cologne as (SRR977). Resident Be400 Beechjet N497XP arrived from Graz. Basic coloured Atlantic West Boeing 737-400F G-NPTZ routed Aberdeen-EMA-Leipzig as (NPT2877/103), while another 737-400F EI-STM of ASL Airlines Ireland (in basic Jettime colours) routed Belfast International-EMA-Liege as (ABR014). Back to West Atlantic, and no less than six BAe ATP's were in EMA tonight with only two movements of the type which included SE-MAN arriving from Guernsey as (SWN022B) and later SE-MHF which routed Isle of Man-EMA-Aberdeen as (SWN521). Volga Antonov AN124 RA-82047 arrived earlier as (VDA5502 from Baku and departed the next evening to Accra as (VDA7830). Another Star Air Boeing 767 OY-SRU (a 300F) arrived from Edinburgh as (SRR6565) and left to Cologne, whilst two DHL aircraft, Boeing 757-200F G-DHKX and an A300 Airbus D-AEAC routed Edinburgh-EMA-Leipzig as (DHL2135/105) and Belfast-EMA-Leipzig (DHL2407/353) respactivly. The last three "just as the light was starting to go were" ASL Airlines Hungary HA-FAY Boeing 737-400F operating Shannon-EMA-Paris CDG as (BCS2938/2581), Swiftair ATR,72 EC-JQF routing from and to Guernsey as (SWT905/902) and lastly DHL Airbus A300 D-AEAE routing Dublin-EMA-Leipzig as (DHL2883).

 

Newcastle 18th November

Newcastle Airport (08.10am - 08.30am)  A very early morning dash to catch up with a quartet of biz this morning, with the added bonus of a EVA Air Airbus A319 CJ B-00777 that arrived lastnight from Detroit, and headed off to Braunschweig early this afternoon. Two Gulfstream G550's... N588TN arrived from Teterboro on the 17th, eventually departing to Farnborough on the 24th, while N237GA arrived from Madrid Barajas on the 12th November, and left this morning to Hailey Friedman, while a pair of Challengers N777J CL604 arrived on the 12th from Bradley International and departed to Farmingdale Republic 20th and N227WG CL601-3A which arrived on the 11th from Madrid Barajas, departed this morning to Long Beach via Bedford and Keflavik  "Unfortunately all though in the gloom!!"