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....
.

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
.

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
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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

Tuesday 31 July 2012 - East Midlands

Volga-Dnepr Ilyushin Il-76TD RA-76511 was a morning visitor....
.

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Photos: Keith Blincow
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.... before continuing on to Gander, Canada, and Houston, USA
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Photos: Dave Turner

Monday 30 July 2012 - Wellesbourne

Guimbal Cabrj G2 G-UIMB was a visitor to Wellesbourne
Photo: Steve Hadley

Tuesday 24 July 2012 - East Midlands

RAF Airbus A330-243MRTT "Voyager" ZZ330 was
an afternoon visitor operating a training flight
.

Photos: John Gregory

Friday 25 May 2012 - East Midlands

Swiftair Boeing 737-301SF EC-LJI was an evening arrival
Photo: John Gregory

Friday 25 May 2012 - Birmingham

RAF Avia Antonov 26B YL-RAE was a morning arrival
operating a freight charter from Bratislava while....
.

.... Nightexpress Short 360-300 D-CRAS was an afternoon
visitor to the Elmdon apron Photos: Mike Hollick
.

Small Planet Airlines Boeing 737-3K2 LY-FLJ positioned in from
Manchester to spend the afternoon flying for flybe Photo: Mike Hollick
.

Hawker 800XP G-CDLT made a brief afternoon visit while....
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.... Gulfstream 5 N556TT which had arrived on Wednesday departed
Photos: Ron Kosys

Thursday 24 May 2012 - Birmingham

Ukraine Air Alliance Antonov 12BK UR-CAG which had arrived
on Wednesday positioned out to collect another load of freight
Photo: Mike Hollick

Tuesday 22 May 2012 - Birmingham

Brit Air Canadair CRJ 1000 F-HMLL operated the evening
Air France service from Paris CDG Photo: Mark Sheen

Tuesday 22 May 2012 - East Midlands

ATI - Air Transport International - Boeing 767-338ERF N319CM
was an evening arrival operating on behalf of DHL
Photo: John Gregory

Monday 21 May 2012 - Birmingham

Meridian Aviation Antonov An 12BK UR-DWF was an afternoon....
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....arrival from Graz with a load of priority freight Photos: John Gregory
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Photo: Mike Hollick
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Challenger 604 CN-IAM which arrived on Sunday spent
the morning parked up on the Elmdon apron before
departing to Goose Bay Photo: Mike Hollick