Tuesday 2 August 2011 - Blu Express and Mistral Air operate final student charters

Blu Express Boeing 737-31S EI-DXB positioned in from Milan Linate
to operate the final Blue Panorama student charter flight to Rome
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Mistral Air Boeing 737-33AQC EI-DVC positioned in from Rome
to operate their final student exchange charter flight of the season
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Air Transat Airbus A330-342 C-GCTS operated their flight to Toronto
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Austrian Arrows/Tyrolean Dash 8Q-402 OE-LGI operated the mid
morning Brussels Airlines service in place of the usual aircraft OE-LGC
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RAF Puma HC1 XW226 overflew the airfield during the morning

Saturday 30 July 2011 - "Global Gathering" at Long Marston airfield results in influx of biz jets!

The "Global Gathering" festival being held at Long Marston airfield
near Stratford on Avon continued to attract interesting movements
to the Elmdon apron - Solid Air Citation Bravo PH-DYN wears
"Swedish House Mafia" titles - a group of Swedish DJ's Photo: Ron Kosys
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Colmuba Air Citation CJ2 9A-CLN arrived from Ohrid Photo: Mike Hollick
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Other visitors included Citation II D-CJJJ
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....and Augusta Air Citation XLS D-CLLL Photos: Mike Hollick
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Flight Ambulance Learjet 35A D-COKE was an evening arrival
from Turkey operating an air ambulance flight
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Jetairfly - TUI Belgium - Boeing 737-8K5 OO-JAX positioned
in from Brussels to operate a return student flight to Rome
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flybe Dash 8Q-402 G-JECF is named "Adam Stansfield" in memory
of the Exeter City footballer who died in 2010 Photo: Ron Kosys
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BA Cityflyer Embraer 190-100LR G-LCYJ positioned in
from Glasgow to operate a peak season IT flight to Palma

Wednesday 2 July 2008 - Adria CRJ200 S5-AAH operates their flight from Ljubljana

Adria Canadair CRJ200 S5-AAH operated their weekly flight
from Ljubljana

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Cessna 525 Citation CJ1 OM-HLY was another early morning

arrival that spent most of the day parked up on the Elmdon apron
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Sun Air Dornier 328JET OY-NCL operated the return charter

flight from Braunschweig before positioning back to Billund
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Farnair Europe ATR 42 HB-AFD operated another charter

flight from/to Paris CDG
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flybe Dash 8Q-400 G-KKEV has now been named "Kevin Keegan"
and sports an image of him - on the passenger door side only - in
his younger days as a Newcastle United Football Club player
. Lear Jet 45 N300AQ was an evening visitor to the Elmdon apron
.Air Berlin Fokker 100 D-AGPD operated the return charter
flight from Frankfurt before positioning to Berlin Tegal

Tuesday 18 May 2010 - "IPEX 2010" at the NEC Birmingham - Day 1

Hello MD 90 HB-JIF, which arrived from Zurich, operated the first

special charter flight bringing visitors to "IPEX 2010" which is taking

place at the adjacent NEC - National Exhibition Centre....
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Wideroe Dash 8Q-402 LN-WDG arrived from Oslo Torp while ....
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Air Nostrum/Iberia Regional Canadair CRJ 900 EC-JTU arrived
from Madrid with all three aircraft parking up to nightstop at BHX
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Many scheduled flights were also upgraded for the show with

Swiss Airbus A320-214 HB-IJB operating their morning service

from Zurich in place of the usual Helvetic Fokker 100
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General aviation day stopping visitors included Pan Europeenne

Piaggio P-180 Avanti F-HCPE ....
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.... and Hans Grohe Pilatus PC-12 D-FKGI
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"IPEX 2010" - the international print, publishing

and media exhibition - is being held at the NEC

between Tuesday 18 May and Tuesday 25 May 2010

Monday 13 April 2009 - Airlift Douglas DC 8F 9G-RAC diverts in from Lyneham

Airlift International Douglas DC 8 63F 9G-RAC was an early

morning diversion from RAF Lyneham....

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.... after refueling it departed off Runway 33 onto Lyneham
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While waiting for the weather at Lyneham to improve it parked
on the Elmdon apron - the aircraft had previously visited BHX in

1987 as OY-KTG when it diverted in operating a SAS flight - for
a photo of it on that visit please see -http://baeg.blogspot.com/
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Welcome Air Dornier 328 OE-GBB was an afternoon visitor

to the Elmdon apron operating an Air Ambulance flight

before departing off Runway 15 to Brussels
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flybe Dash 8Q-400 G-ECOR which had arrived on delivery

on Friday spent the day parked on the Elmdon apron

Sunday 13 April 2008 - baboo Dash 8 HB-JQA receives attention from flybe

flybaboo Dash 8Q-400 HB-JQA - which had arrived on Friday night

for attention by flybe - went for an early morning engine test at the

end of the former Runway 06 before departing back to Geneva at 1015
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Monarch Boeing 757 G-MONE operated an end of season IT flight

from Geneva before positioning out to Innsbruck....
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.... while Titan Boeing 737-300 G-POWC operated flights to

Murcia and Knock on behalf of bmibaby

Monday 11 December 2017 - Seeing double Emirates Airbus A380s as 4 visit after Sundays snowfall

Emirates Airbus A380-861 A6-EOY operated their lunchtime flight from Dubai landing as
A380-842 A6-EUY which had diverted to Manchester the previous day was still boarding

As no stand was available A380 A6-EOY then had to hold on Taxiway Alpha while a
number of following arrivals landed and then backtracked down Runway 33 to pass it

Emirates Airbus A380-842 A6-EUY was soon on its way albeit nearly 24 hours late....

.... departing to Dubai and causing its own snowstorm as it lifted off Runway 33

As a result of Sunday's diversions both of which went to Manchester and then returned
today/Monday a total of 4 Emirates Airbus A380s operated through Birmingham -

1030/1230 EK39D/8040 388 from Manchester/to Dubai A6-EUY
- return of flight diverted on Sunday - Emirates
1125/1330 EK039/040 388 from/to Dubai A6-EOY
- planned aircraft allocation - Emirates
1730/1930 EK37D/8038 388 from Manchester/to Dubai A6-EOX
- return of flight diverted on Sunday - Emirates
1845/2050 EK037/038 388 from/to Dubai A6-EDJ
- planned aircraft allocation - Emirates

Above are "planned times - the final flight did not depart until after 0200 Tuesday morning!

Ryanair Boeing 737-8AS EI-GDF operated their flight from Tenerife - its first visit to BHX

Icelandair Boeing 757-23N TF-FIC operated their flight from Reykjavik Keflavik going on
an extended airport tour on arrival due to a number stands still being blocked by snow

Jet2 Boeing 737-8K5 G-GDFX positioned in from Belfast to operate their flight to Krakow
as they brought in additional capacity to catch up after Sunday's snow related delays

Jet2 Boeing 737-86Q G-GDFY operated their flight to Tenerife

SAS Airbus A321-232 OY-KBE operated their morning service to Copenhagen
after their Sunday afternoon service was cancelled due to the snow

easyJet Airbus A320-214 G-EZWY operated their flight from Geneva
as they increased their schedule for the start of the ski season

easyJet Airbus A320-214 G-EZRD operated their mid-morning service to Belfast International

flybe Dash 8Q-402 G-FLBD taxy's to the terminal from the Monarch Aircraft Engineering hangar

Air Taxi Europe Cessna 406 Caravan II D-IFFF was an afternoon arrival
on the Elmdon apron - the Germans don't let a little snow stop them!!

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