Saturday 1 December 2012 - Emirates Boeing 777's go nose to nose at Birmingham Airport!!

Emirates go nose to nose!! - Boeing 777-31HER A6-EBE arrives just as A6-EGQ pushes back....

.... A6-EGQ had gone "tech" after suffering a lightning strike on departure from Dubai on Friday

.... and as a result had spent the night parked on Stand 85C next to Transaero Boeing 747-346
VP-BGX which had diverted in due to poor weather at Bruntingthorpe on Friday afternoon

Air France Airbus A319-111 F-GRHR operated their morning service to Paris CDG - its first visit to BHX

Citation Mustang OE-FZA was a morning visitor to the Elmdon apron departing to Chambery

Netjets Hawker 800XP CS-DFX which diverted in from Coventry on Friday evening departed

Centreline Citation CJ2 G-TWOP was an afternoon departure to Malaga

"The Flying Show" at the nearby NEC resulted in a number of light aircraft visitors

including Pioneer 300 Hawk G-CGTL - the first visit of this type of aircraft to BHX

 

Friday 25 November 2011 - US Air Force C17 90-0532 early morning diversion

US Air Force C17A 90-0532 was an early morning arrival when
it diverted in because Mildenhall was closed for the Thanksgiving
Holiday - after unloading on the Elmdon apron it repositioned
to park up on Taxiway Tango Photo: Mike Hollick
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Alpi Aviation Pioneer 200 G-CFKW which had arrived on Thursday
was loaded onto a trailer on the Elmdon apron to be moved to the
NEC for "The Flying Show".... Photo: Mike Hollick
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.... leaving the site via Hangar Road....
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.... and causing some rush hour queues on the A45 Coventry Road!!
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More photos later!!