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Monday 10 September 2012 - "Bye, bye, baby" - the final departures from East Midlands

"Bye bye baby" - Boeing 737-3L9 G-OGBD was the final bmibaby
departure from East Midlands Airport performing a fly past before
continuing onto Lasham for storage - bmibaby had ceased passenger
operations on Sunday evening, 9 September 2012

Earlier departures included Boeing 737-36N G-TOYF....

.... and Boeing 737-59D G-BVKB

An early morning photo of the bmibaby aircraft before
they started departing to Lasham and Norwich
Photos: Keith Blincow

Monday 10 September 2012 - East Midlands

Sky Lease Cargo MD 11F N952AR was an afternoon arrival....

.... joining N955AR which had gone tech after it arrived
on Saturday on the DHL apron Photos: Keith Blincow

MD 11F N952AR was soon loaded....

.... departing to Santa Maria and onto South America

Photos: John Gregory

Friday 7 September 2012 - Birmingham

Gainjet/Multiflight Boeing 737-329 SX-MTF which had returned
in the early hours of the morning from Baku with the England
Under 21 Football team was an afternoon departure ....

.... positioning out to Norwich Photos: Ron Kosys

Luftwaffe Transall C-160D 51+02 was a visitor to collect the
Military band that had arrived on Wednesday Photo: Robert Jones

Saturday 8 September 2012 - East Midlands

Sky Lease Cargo MD 11F N955AR was a lunchtime arrival from Miami

Photos: John Gregory

Monday 3 September 2012 - RAF Brize Norton

Euro Atlantic Boeing 777-212ER CS-TFM was a visitor
Photo: Paul Sliwinski

Sunday 2 September 2012 - Sywell

The "Light Aircraft Association" - LAA - held its annual
rally at Sywell on 31 August - 2 September 2012
- the event attracted many visitors including -
.
Cessna 210N Centurion EI-CGH
.
Carbon Cub EI-LSA
.
Pipistrel Virus 912 EI-EAG
.
Auster J/1N Alpha G-AJIW
.
Beagle B.121 Pup 150 G-AXEV
. SAN Jodel D.117 G-AXCG
.
Bellanca 7ECA Citabria G-BLHS
.
Aeronca 11AC Chief G-BRXF
.
Piper PA-18-95 Super Cub G-BVRZ
.
WAG-Aero Sport Trainer G-BZHU
.
Best Off Skyranger Nynja 912S G-CGJI
.DH82A Tiger Moth G-MOTH in RAF colours as K-2567
.
TL Ultralight TL-2000UK Sting Carbon G-SACM
.Aero AT-3 R100 G-SPAT
.
Titan T-51 Mustang G-TSIM in USAF colours
.
Lancair IV SE-XXX
Photos: Mike Hollick

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
.
Robin DR 221 G-RRCU which is based at Hucknall
.
Vans RV-6 G-RIVT
.
Beagle B.121 Pup 150 G-PUPP
.
Cessna 172RG Cutlass G-PARI
.
Kolb Twinstar Mk.III G-IANN
.
Evektor EV-97 Eurostar G-CCZZ
.
Murphy Rebel G-BWCY
.
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
.
The four helicopters which are parking on the Elmdon
apron at Birmingham Airport overnight are....
.
MW Helicopters Eurocopter Ecureuil 2 G-IDEB
.
Arena Aviation Eurocopter Ecureuil 2 G-JESE
.
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
.
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
.
.... was an afternoon departure to Dubai
.
Photos: Gordon Stretch

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