Saturday 11 May 2013 - RAF Rescue Sea King HAR3 ZA105 visits on a medevac flight from Devon

RAF Rescue Sea King HAR3 ZA105 was a morning visitor operating a medevac flight having already
made one visit earlier to collect a specialist medical team from Birmingham Children’s Hospital....

.... which it transported to a hospital in Devon - it then returned with the patient and the medical
team before continuing back to its base at RAF Valley in North Wales Photos: Mike Hollick

Cessna 510 Mustang D-IRUN was a day stopping visitor to the Elmdon apron while....

Netjets Hawker 750 CS-DUH made a brief morning visit....

.... Specsavers Super King Air M-SPEC also visited Photos: Mike Hollick

Eastern Airways Embraer 135ER G-CGMC positioned in from Newcastle to take West Bromwich
 Albion to Norwich for their Premier League match on Sunday while....

Cello/Chevron Avro RJ 85 G-LENM positioned out to Manchester to operate a charter
to Luton for the FA Cup final at Wembley between Manchester City and Wigan

Tuesday 9 February 2016 - Two Royal Navy Westland Sea Kings visit Jaguar Land Rover Sports Ground

Two Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm helicopters visited the Jaguar Land Rover Sports Ground adjacent
to Rowood Drive, Solihull and just a short distance from Birmingham Airport's western boundary....

Westland Sea King HC4 ZF427 is coded "K" and....

Westland Sea King HC4 ZF117 is coded "X" Photos: Mark Presswood

.... and both are operated by 848 Squadron based at RNAS Yeovilton in Somerset

.... and departed shortly before 1600

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Tuesday 30 July 2013 - Gulfstream 650 N673HA spent morning on Elmdon apron - first visit of type to BHX!!

Gulfstream 650 N673HA which had arrived from Portland-Hillsboro, Oregon, USA on Monday evening spent the
morning parked on the Elmdon apron - the first visit of this new type of Gulfstream to BHX.... Photo: Mike Hollick

.... it later departed to Paris Le Bourget

.... quickly rotating off Runway 15

Other visitors to the Elmdon apron included Citation CJ3 F-HBPP....

Citation CJ4 F-HGLO and....

Danish Air Transport/DAT Lite Super King Air LY-LTE Photos: Mike Hollick

Turkish Airlines Boeing 737-8F2 TC-JHU which is in a special "BVB 09 - Borussia Dortmund"
colour scheme operated their afternoon flight to Istanbul

Brussels Airlines Avro RJ 100 OO-DWB operated their afternoon service to Brussels

PIA Boeing 777-240ER AP-BGK operated their flight from Islamabad

Emirates Boeing 777-31HER A6-EGY operated their evening flight from Dubai - its first visit to BHX

Saturday 19 March 2011 - RAF Rescue Sea King XZ596 drops in for fuel

RAF Rescue Sea King HAR3 XZ596 was a morning visitor to the

Elmdon apron when it dropped in for fuel after visiting the Queen

Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham - it wears additional "1941-2011

RAF SAR 70 - 70 years of life saving" titles.. Photo: Mark Sheen

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Ryanair Boeing 737-8AS EI-DYY operated their morning service
from Dublin - it wears additional "Comunitat Valenciana" titles
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Contact Air Fokker 100 D-AFKD operated the morning
Lufthansa service from Dusseldorf
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Global Express 5000 HB-JIH was a morning visitor.. Photo: Mark Sheen
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Super King Air G-CGAW was an afternoon arrival parking
up on the Elmdon apron to nightstop

Monday 22 November 2010 - Nightexpress Beech 99 D-IEXB operates freight charter

Nightexpress Beech 99 D-IEXB was an afternoon visitor

operating a priority freight charter....

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.... while Farnair Beech 1900D HA-FAM arrived from Budapest in
the early hours of the morning to take a load of freight to Rennes
Photos: Mike Hollick
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Hawker 900XP OM-USS was a day stopping visitor....
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.... while Piper Meridian OK-TOP which had arrived on Sunday
evening departed.. Photos: Ron Kosys
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Turkish Airlines Boeing 737-8F2 TC-JFV operated their service

to Istanbul - it wears a special scheme tomark their sponsorship

of Manchester United FC.. Photo: Ron Kosys
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RAF Rescue Sea King HAR3 ZE370 was an evening visitor

to the Elmdon apron.. Photo: Mike Hollick

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

Saturday 16 January 2010 - RAF Sea King ZE369 goes for an airtest

RAF Rescue Sea King HAR.3 ZE369 which has been under

repair since it diverted in on Monday 4 January 2010....

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.... went for an airtest keeping both within the airport boundary

and to the west of Runway 15....
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.... before returning to park in front of flybe Hangar 1
. Flight Ambulance Learjet 35A D-COKE which had arrived on
Friday evening departed to Nuremberg....
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.... while Falcon 900B VP-BFH which arrived in the early hours
of the morning spent the day parked on the Elmdon apron
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Austrian Arrows Fokker 70 OE-LFR operated their
weekly IT flight from Innsbruck

Monday 11 January 2010 - Royal Danish AF Hercules B-537 visits on medevac flight

Royal Danish Air Force Hercules C-130J B-537 was a morning visitor

operating a medevac flight departing back to Denmark off Runway 15
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RAF C 17 ZZ175 was a visitor operating a Medevac flight - due to

the limited number of Taxiways open it routed from the Elmdon

apron via "Echo 1" before departing off Runway 15 to Brize Norton
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RAF Rescue Sea King HAR.3 ZE369 which has been under repair

in flybe Hangar 1 since it diverted in a week ago came out for

engine running on Taxiway Lima/the old cross runway
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Helitrans Jetstream 32 LN-HTB was a lunchtime visitor to the
Elmdon apron - it was formerly G-OAKJ with Eastern Airways
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There was a further snowfall overnight resulting in another
busy day for the Ops team clearing the airfield yet again
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