Civilian Aviation

Here's a few from a very good day at Heathrow a couple of weeks ago. The light at this time of year is excellent so here's a selection from the day.

Arriving from New York:


9K-AOB Kuwait Airways B772 at Heathrow EGLL by AeroPics, on Flickr

The decent old Finnair livery:


OH-LZE Finnair A321 at Heathrow EGLL by AeroPics, on Flickr

G-VFAB from Miami:


G-VFAB Virgin Atlantic B744 at Heathrow EGLL by AeroPics, on Flickr

LOT E195:


SP-LNA LOT E195 at Heathrow EGLL by AeroPics, on Flickr

The sole Aeroflot widebody service of the day:


VP-BAY Aeroflot B763 at Heathrow EGLL by AeroPics, on Flickr

Always liked the Croatia Airlines livery:


9A-CTL Croatia Airlines A319 at Heathrow EGLL by AeroPics, on Flickr

And the Brussels A319s look smart too:


OO-SSU Brussels Airlines A319 at Heathrow EGLL by AeroPics, on Flickr

United 757:


N33103 United Airlines B752 at Heathrow EGLL by AeroPics, on Flickr

Sole Turkish widebody service of the day:


TC-JNR Turkish Airlines A332 at Heathrow EGLL by AeroPics, on Flickr

The excellent new Air Malta livery freshly applied to this A319:


9H-AEL Air Malta A319 at Heathrow EGLL by AeroPics, on Flickr

SAS MD82, glad they're still flying:


LN-RML SAS MD82 at Heathrow EGLL by AeroPics, on Flickr

Go -around, owing to ice being reported on the runway. THis caused the runway to be closed for 10 minuted with arrivals switched to Runway 27L.


N754AN Amercian Airlines B772 at Heathrow EGLL by AeroPics, on Flickr

Air New Zealand B77W:


ZK-OKO Air New Zealand B77W at Heathrow EGLL by AeroPics, on Flickr

Then Iranair A300:


EP-IBC Iran Air A300 at Heathrow EGLL by AeroPics, on Flickr

bmi liveried A321 still flying:


G-MEDG BMI A321 at Heathrow EGLL by AeroPics, on Flickr

Air Inida B77W from Mumbai:


VT-ALM Air India B77W at Heathrow EGLL by AeroPics, on Flickr

Egyptair A330:


SU-GDV Egyptair A332 at Heathrow EGLL by AeroPics, on Flickr

Icelandair 757:


TF-FIP Icelandair B752 at Heathrow EGLL by AeroPics, on Flickr

Qatar 77W:


A7-BAK Qatar Airways B77W at Heathrow EGLL by AeroPics, on Flickr

United 747 from San Francisco, fortunately in the old livery:


N171UA United Airlines B744 at Heathrow EGLL by AeroPics, on Flickr

TAM B77W


PT-MUE TAM B77W at Heathrow EGLL by AeroPics, on Flickr


And the TAM A332:


PT-MVC TAM A332 at Heathrow EGLL by AeroPics, on Flickr

Air Algerie 737:


7T-VKB Air Algerie B738 at Heathrow EGLL by AeroPics, on Flickr

Tarom A318:


YR-ASA Tarom A318 at Heathrow EGLL by AeroPics, on Flickr

Emirates B77W, unfortunately the lunchtime A380 departed to AMS with low fuel!


A6-ECE Emirates B77W at Heathrow EGLL by AeroPics, on Flickr

Hope these are of interest, only a selection of some, with more on my flickr page.

That's a great selection of schemes in lovely winter light and as for the MD-82.........mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm............

Yes they all look pretty good from here.
Looks like the Air Malta have done another frame.
Great set thank-you for posting up..
P/s wish we had that selection at Norwich..

Would love to see more variety down here in Bristol instead of Easyjet and Ryanair all time as well . Maybe when the Terminal extention is built we will

Would love to see the Turkish A.330 in at Edinburgh now we've got a Turkish Airlines service up here. Also who was operating the BMI A.321?

Thanks All for your comments, and glad you like them.The variety at LHR is certainly unparalleled, really quite astonishing and think we can all hope that our locals were so interesting!

The bmi A321 was operating under a Speedbird callsign, I had heard it had been previously operating for Lufthansa.

Super set

Thanks Paultojo -amazing what excellent light can do.

Cracking set in delicious winter light.