Monday 14 July 2008 - RAF Fairford - sunshine after the rain - tranport aircraft

The Royal International Air Tattoo at Fairford was cancelled due

to the poor weather - departures day however dawned bright and

sunny - transport aircraft visitors included -

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73-0991 C-130E Hercules 222 Filo Turkish Air Force

- "Turkish Stars" aerobatic team support

.81 P-3C Orion II 29 Sqn Pakistan Navy special
"a civilisation 5000 years old" tail markings

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2507 Antonov 26 241 Smdl Czech Air Force special '90 Years of Prague-Kbely 1918-2008' markings
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346 C-130H Hercules 3 Sqn Royal Jordanian Air Force
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551 BAC 1-11 485GD 4 Sqn Royal Air Force of Oman
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406 Antonov 26 3 Transport Sqn Hungarian Air Force
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995 C-130H Hercules Grupo 10 Chilean Air Force
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FAB-2807 Casa 295 (C-105A) 1/9 GAv Brazillian Air Force
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73-1150 Boeing T-43A 12 FTW USAF
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8TCB C-130K Hercules Fl Rgt 3 Austrian Air Force
Photos: Mike Hollick

Monday 14 July 2008 - Coventry - B 17 Flying Fortress visit!

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Boeing B-17G Flying Fortress N390TH/297848 "Liberty Belle"
arrived at Coventry from Duxford after its attendance at the
"Flying Legends" air display....

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.... after first offering tours of the aircraft it then operated a
series of taxying trips round the airport!
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Air Atlantique Classic Flight DC 3 G-AMPY/"KK116" was operating

pleasure flights as part of the Dakota "Farewell Tour"....
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.... while DC 3 G-AMRA was open for tours
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Rapide G-AIDL/"TX310" was on checks in the hangar
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Also present was MNG Cargo Friendship 500 TC-MBB
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Photos: Gordon Stretch
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Sunday 13 July 2008 - BHX

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KLM used Fokker 50 PH-LXP on their lunchtime service from Amsterdam

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bmibaby used Titan Boeing 737-300 G-ZAPZ on a number of their flights

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AMC Boeing 737-800 SU-BPG operated their weekly IT flight from Sharm el Sheikh

Photos: James Ralph

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Tyrol Air Ambulance Citation V OE-GAA operated a medivac flight
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Air Berlin Boeing 737-800 D-ABBD operted their flight from Paderborn
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Photos: Ron Kosys
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Friday 11 July 2008 - BHX

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LTE again used Airbus A320 EC-JIB on their weekly IT flight from Tenerife

- the aircraft is in a logo jet scheme advertising the new VW Tiguan and still

wears MyAir titles and tail scheme from its recent lease to that operator

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Photo: Ian Bowley
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Friday 11 July 2008 - EMA

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Sterling Boeing 737-500 OY-APH operated their scheduled

service from Copenhagen

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Photo: Ron Kosys
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Thursday 10 July 2008 - BHX

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Euro Atlantic Boeing 767-300 CS-TLQ operated the return Thomas Cook

flight from Larnaca before positioning back to Lisbon

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Photo: Dave Sturges

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Cirrus Legacy D-ARTN was an afternoon visitor to the Elmdon apron

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An unusual "visitor" to BHX! - a helicopter believed to be Hughes 369E

G-RAPD arrived at the Elmdon site from Sywell on the back for a lorry and

after being covered up went onto Heathrow for air freighting to the US

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Photos: Ron Kosys
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Wednesday 9 July 2008 - BHX

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Euro Atlantic Boeing 767-300 CS-TLQ positioned in from
Lisbon in the early evening to operate a delayed Thomas
Cook IT flight to Larnaca replacing a tech Boeing 757

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RAF VC 10 C1K XV109 operated a medivac flight in the early evening

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Adria used Canadair RJ 200 EC-JOD on their weekly flight to
Ljubljana - the aircraft is leased from Air Nostrum/Iberia Regional

and retains their full colour scheme with Adria titles

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Photos: Ron Kosys
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Tuesday 8 July 2008 - BHX

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RAF Tristar C2 ZE705 operated a medivac flight before

positioning to RAF Brize Norton

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Seeing double! - West Air Europe BAe ATP LX-WAS went tech on Monday....

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.... resulting in BAe ATP LX-WAM operating the inbound flight on Tuesday

morning and spending the day parked on the Elmdon apron with LX-WAS

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Lufthansa used Canadair RJ 100 D-ACJH on their flight from Hamburg
- the aircraft wears the "Little Europe" special colour scheme

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Photos: Ron Kosys
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Sunday 6 July 2008 - CVT

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The British Grand Prix at Silverstone resulted in a busy Sunday evening at

Coventry with visitors including Welcome Air Dornier 328 JET OE-LJR....

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.... Eurofly Airbus A320 I-EEZE which came to collect the Ferrari team...

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.... and WDL BAe 146-200 D-AWUE
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Also arriving was Air Atlantique Classic Flight Dakota G-AMPY

which is painted in RAF colours and also wears serial "KK116"
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Photos: Dave Sturges
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Friday 4 July 2008 - BHX

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West Air Europe BAe ATP LX-WAS replaced LX-WAP on the

overnight FedEx service from Paris CDG and spent the day

parked up on the Elmdon apron

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Photo: Mike Hollick
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Thursday 3 July 2008 - EMA

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"Classic" Boeing 747-100SF N709CK of Kalitta was an evening visitor

collecting a RB211 engine for Icelandair before departing to Keflavik

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Exin Antonov 26 SP-FDR was a late evening arrival into EMA

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Photos: John Gregory
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Wednesday 2 July 2008 - BHX

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Brit Air used Canadair RJ 700 F-GRZH on the afternoon Air France to Lyon

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Cyprus Airways used Airbus A320 5B-DBD on their service to Larnaca

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Photos: Ron Kosys

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Sun Air Dornier 328JET OY-NCL operated the return charter from Braunschweig
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Photo: Mike Hollick
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Tuesday 1 July 2008 - Selly Oak

Army Air Corp Gazelle AH1 XZ294 was an afternoon

visitor to Selly Oak Hospital in Birmingham

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Photo: Laurence Jones

Tuesday 1 July 2008 - BHX

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Sun Air Dornier 328JET OY-NCL operated a charter flight to Braunschweig with

the aircraft - which is in British Airways colours - positioning in from Billund

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Air Berlin Fokker 100 D-AGPD operated a charter flight to Frankfurt

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KLM used Fokker 50 PH-KVK on their lunchtime service to Amsterdam

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PIA used Boeing 777-200ER AP-BHX on their service from Islamabad
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European Boeing 737-200 G-CEAE operated a charter flight to Gothenburg
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Photos: Ron Kosys
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