Sunday 5 May 2013 - RAF Battle of Britain Memorial Flight Dakota ZA947 performs flypast at Birmingham

Royal Air Force Battle of Britain Memorial Flight Douglas C-47A Dakota ZA947 performed
a flypast down Runway 15 while en-route from Wednesbury to Bletchley Park....

.... arriving from the north the Dakota circled over Sheldon waiting for a gap in the traffic

.... before flying down Runway 15 and past Birmingham Airport's historic Elmdon Tower
that has recently been replaced by the new ATC Tower

.... the aircraft is painted to represent Dakota FZ692 of 233 Squadron

.... around the D-Day period in 1944

.... and turned to the left as it climbed away en-route to Bletchley Park

Exin Antonov 26B SP-FDT had made an early morning visit to the Elmdon apron....

.... to collect an urgent consignment of motor racing equipment Photos: Ian Cruise

First Choice Boeing 767-324ER G-OOBM was a morning arrival from Cancun, Mexico

Lufthansa Cityline Canadair CRJ 701ER D-ACPR operated their morning service to Frankfurt

SAS MD 81 LN-RMR operated their evening service from Copenhagen

Falcon 900EX N988H which had arrived on Saturday was a morning departure to International Falls

Sunday 31 January 2010 - Virgin Boeing 747 G-VLIP diverts in from Manchester

Virgin Atlantic Boeing 747-443 G-VLIP diverted in while operating

flight "VS 076" from Orlando when the runway at Manchester was

closed following an early morning snow shower....
.

.... it later positioned back to Manchester
.
Thomas Cook Airbus A330-243 G-MDBD was operating flight
"TCX 034L" from Calgary to Manchester when it also diverted
.
Continental Boeing 757-224 N14120 operated their service
to Newark - the aircraft is now in "Star Alliance" colours
.
Maldivian Air Taxi/Kenn Borek Air Twin Otter C-GTKB was a
late afternoon arrival from Dubrovnik - after refueling it continued
on its way to Keflavik, Iceland, and onto Calgary, Canada
.
Piper Dakota G-ODAK which had arrived on Saturday evening
departed - it wears a British Airways tail colour scheme