Sunday 7 June 2009 - Maldivian Air Taxi Twin Otter C-FWKU is a morning arrival from Keflavik

Maldivian Air Taxi/Kenn Borek Air Twin Otter C-FWKU was an early
morning arrival from Keflavik parking up on the Elmdon apron

Thursday 17 April 2008 - Samsung Boeing 737 BBJ HL7770 is an afternoon visitor to the Elmdon apron

Boeing BBJ HL7770 of Samsung arrived from Farnborough in

the early afternoon parking on the Elmdon apron until it

returned to Farnborough in the early evening This was the

first Korean registered to visit BHX

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.Kenn Borek Twin Otter C-GKBR arrived from Brindisi on its

way back to Canada from the Maldives. After refueling at BHX

it departed to Keflavik but subsequently diverted to Stornoway

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Tuesday 19 October 2010 - Maldivian Air taxi Twin Otter C-GOKB departs to Keflavik

Ken Borek Air/Maldivian Air Taxi Twin Otter 300 C-GOKB

was an early morning departure to Keflavik, Iceland, on the

next stage of its journey home to Canada

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CityLine Hungary Antonov 26B HA-TCO which had arrived in the

early hours on a priority freight charter was an afternoon departure
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Ryanair Boeing 737-8AS EI-DHX operated their lunchtime service

to Dublin - it wears additional "Costa Daurada" titles

Monday 18 October 2010 - RAF Sea King and Hercules C4 visit Elmdon apron

RAF Rescue Sea King HAR.3 XZ593 was an afternoon visitor

departing to the Queen Elizabeth Hospital

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RAF Hercules C4 ZH869 was an afternoon arrival....
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.... operating a medevac flight and parking on the Elmdon apron
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RAF Avia Antonov 26B YL-RAE - which is now based
at BHX - positioned out to operate a freight charter
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Eastern Saab 2000 G-CERZ operated the afternoon
bmi regional service to Aberdeen
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Super King Air M-JACK which had arrived on Friday was
an afternoon departure
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Jet Aviation Citation Bravo HB-VMY made another day stopping
visit with HB-VMX which it followed out on departure
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Ken Borek Air Twin Otter 300 C-GOKB was an evening arrival

from Dubrovnik on its way home to Canada after service with

Maldivian Air Taxi whose titles it still wears

Monday 31 May 2010 - Kenn Borek Air Twin Otter C-GLKB on the way home!

Kenn Borek Air Twin Otter C-GLKB was an afternoon arrival from

Dubrovnik on its way home to Canada from the Maldives....

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.... after refueling on the Elmdon apron it continued to Keflavik

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Jet2 Boeing 737-33AQC G-CELO was an afternoon arrival from

Lisbon bringing the American group the "Black Eyed Peas" to

Birmingham for their Concert at the LG Arena, NEC....

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.... CityLine Hungary Antonov 26 HA-TCN had arrived earlier

from Lisbon via Bordeaux with their equipment
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Pegasus Boeing 737-86N TC-AAO operated the first of

a new weekly IT flight to Dalaman
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Viking Boeing 737-8Q8 SE-RHR had positioned in on Sunday evening
to operate their weekly flight to Northern Iraq - its first visit to BHX
. Belgian Air Force Embraer 145LR CE-04 was an afternoon
visitor to the Elmdon apron

Wednesday 19 May 2010 - Kenn Borek Air Twin Otter C-GPOQ departs to Keflavik

Kenn Borek Air Twin Otter C-GPOQ departed after its night stop

at BHX for Keflavik, Iceland, on its way home to Canada after

being operated by Maldivian Air Taxi in the Maldives

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Air Berlin Boeing 737-78S D-AHIA, a former TUIfly aircraft,
operated their flight from Hannover

Tuesday 18 May 2010 - other visitors

Astraeus Boeing 757-23A G-OJIB positioned in from

Bournemouth to operate a charter to Cairo, Egypt....
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.... while in an "all white" scheme faint Saudi Arabian titles were still

visible the aircraft having been operated on their behalf for the Hajj
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Kenn Borek Air Twin Otter C-GPOQ was an afternoon arrival
from Dubrovnik on its way home to Canada from the Maldives
- it parked up on the Elmdon apron to night stop
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Bahrain Amiri Flight Gulfstream 450 A9C-BHR was an evening
visitor to the Elmdon apron before positioning down to Heathrow
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Learjet 60 M-IGHT also made a visit to the packed Elmdon apron

Monday 3 May 2010 - PIA Boeing 777 AP-BHW operates additional flight

PIA Boeing 777-340ER AP-BHW operated an additional flight

- PK 7912/7922 - from/to Islamabad to bring home passengers

stranded by the recent Volcanic Ash cloud airport closures
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Lufthansa Airbus A319-114 D-AILU - "Lu" - operated
their lunchtime service to Frankfurt
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Kenn Borek Air Twin Otter C-GKCS remained parked up

on the Elmdon apron
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Central Counties Air Operations Unit's Eurocopter EC 135P2+
G-HEOI was an afternoon visitor to the Elmdon apron

Sunday 2 May 2010 - Pegasus start new weekly Boeing 737 service from Antalya

Pegasus Boeing 737-86N TC-AAP operated the first flight

of their new weekly scheduled service from/to Antalya

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Kenn Borek Air Twin Otter C-GKCS arrived from Dubrovnik

in the early hours of the morning on its way home to Canada

after operation in the Maldives by Maldivian Air Taxi

Tuesday 23 February 2010 - First visit of winglet equipped Thomson Boeing 767

Thomsonfly Boeing 767-304ER G-OBYG - which has now had

winglets fitted - positioned in to operate their weekly flight to

Punta Cana in the Dominican Republic - this was the first visit

of a "76W" in Thomson colours
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Viking Boeing 737-36N SE-RHU positioned in from Gatwick

to replace SE-RHT (which had gone tech at BHX) and operate

their weekly flight to Northern Iraq
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The new Agusta A109E Power G-RSCU of the Warwickshire &

Northamptonshire Air Ambulance made three ILS approaches

and go arounds to Runway 15 during the morning
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Maldivian Air Taxi/Kenn Borek Air Twin Otter C-FAKB spent the
day parked on the Elmdon apron after arriving from Keflavik in
the early hours of the morning. It departed to Dubrovnik shortly

after midnight/early Wednesday only to suffer an electrical fire

and made an emergency diversion to Gatwick.. Photo: Ron Kosys

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....
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.... it later positioned back to Manchester
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Thomas Cook Airbus A330-243 G-MDBD was operating flight
"TCX 034L" from Calgary to Manchester when it also diverted
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Continental Boeing 757-224 N14120 operated their service
to Newark - the aircraft is now in "Star Alliance" colours
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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
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Piper Dakota G-ODAK which had arrived on Saturday evening
departed - it wears a British Airways tail colour scheme

Tuesday 15 December 2009 - Maldivian Air Taxi Twin Otter 8Q-MAJ spends day parked up

Maldivian Air Taxi Twin Otter 8Q-MAJ arrived from Keflavik for

a stop over on the Elmdon apron before continuing to Dubrovnik

later in the evening. Kenn Borek Air have recently disposed of

their interest in Maldivian Air Taxi and this is one of the "new"

aircraft for the later. Various KBA aircraft are returning to

Canada and when this process is complete the regular

Twin Otter transit flights via BHX should cease

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easyJet restarted their seasonal service to Geneva with the first

flight being operated by easyJet Swiss Airbus A319 HB-JZG
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Turkish Airlines Boeing 737-8F2 TC-JGK operated their flight

from Istanbul as they celebrated the first anniversary of their

5 times weekly service to BHX

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Mustafa Saglik, Director of Turkish Airlines at Birmingham

gave two complimentary return tickets to Istanbul to the

first passenger to arrive at check-in, 25 year old student

Ceren Ozbasaran, who was travelling home to Turkey

for the Christmas holidays
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For a video of the days celebration please see -

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ScPo0MQ2Clw