Friday 24 August 2012 - Coventry

Falcon 2000 N826KR arrived on Thursday parking up
for a weekend stay on the south side apron
Photo: David Depledge

Saturday 18 August 2012 - Hucknall

"The Robin Hood fly in" was held at Hucknall airfield
on Saturday 18 August 2012 - attendees included....

Piper PA-16 Clipper N5730H and Aeronca 7AC Champion G-BPGK
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Robin DR 221 G-RRCU which is based at Hucknall
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Vans RV-6 G-RIVT
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Beagle B.121 Pup 150 G-PUPP
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Cessna 172RG Cutlass G-PARI
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Kolb Twinstar Mk.III G-IANN
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Evektor EV-97 Eurostar G-CCZZ
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Murphy Rebel G-BWCY
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Auster J-1 Kingsland G-AJIT
Photos: Mike Hollick

Friday 17 August 2012 - Birmingham Curzon Street adjacent to "Millennium Point"

Four helicopters are currently based at a site on Curzon Street
in Birmingham City centre adjacent to Millennium Point
.
The helicopters will be used by musicians taking part in a
performance of Stockhausen’s Helicopter String Quartet
which is part of an opera - Mittwoch aus Licht - that
is being staged by the Birmingham Opera Company
between 22-25 August 2012 as part of the London 2012
Festival - for more information please click here and here
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The four helicopters which are parking on the Elmdon
apron at Birmingham Airport overnight are....
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MW Helicopters Eurocopter Ecureuil 2 G-IDEB
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Arena Aviation Eurocopter Ecureuil 2 G-JESE
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East Midlands Helicopters Eurocopter Ecureuil 2 G-BYZA
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Arena Aviation Eurocopter Ecureuil 2 G-TVHD
Photos: John Taylor

Tuesday 14 August 2012 - Birmingham

Turkish Airlines Boeing 737-8F2 TC-JFH operated their service

to Istanbul - the aircraft is in the "Star Alliance" colour scheme

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Strategic Airlines Airbus A320-212 LX-STC operated their
weekly IT flight from Heraklion
Photos: Ron Kosys

Monday 13 August 2012 - Birmingham

Alitalia Airbus A320-214 I-BIKE operated their final student
charter of the 2012 summer season back to Rome
Photo: Nick Broome

Tuesday 7 August 2012 - East Midlands

Russian Air Force "224 Flight" Antonov 124 RA-82039....
.

.... which had arrived at East Midlands the previous Friday
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.... was an afternoon departure to Dubai
.

Photos: Gordon Stretch

Friday 3 August 2012 - East Midlands

Russian Air Force "224 Flight" Antonov 124 RA-82039....
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.... was an early morning arrival Photos: Mark Sheen
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.... parking up on the DHL apron
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RA-82039 earlier on short finals to land Photos: Ian Busby