Civilian Aviation

I thought while we're on lockdown, we could have a thread for anything we spot from our gardens.

I spotted this a little while ago:

N150SF
1978 Aerospatiale SA-341G Gazelle over Bedford 25/03/20


Feel free to add your own.

Cheers,
Oz

good idea Mark, here's one from me from early this morning (only one I've noticed all day)

N616UP climbing out of Stansted on it's way to Hong Kong

N616UP B.747-8F over Rayne 25-03-2020 4910 by Andrew Goldsmith, on Flickr

maybe I should change the April SPOTM to this subject, at least most of us might see something!

andy

The skies are rather empty. This is all I could manage today.

LX-KCL
2008 Boeing 747-4HAF(ER) of Cargolux somewhere to the south of Bedford at 39,000 feet around 5pm, 26/03/20

Here is Royal Jordanian Cargo A310F JY-AGQ heading over on its way to Doncaster from Amman as RY1220. (26/3/20)

I'm really lucky being on the approach to the Doncaster Airport and have been working for a week or so. Here's a few shots from my house:

Royal Jordanian Cargo A310, JY-AGQ, 26th March


Cargolux, LX-OCV, 25th March


Virgin Atlantic A330, G-VMNK, 24th March


Stay safe and look after each other.
Thanks for looking, Lee.

Nice shots, esp the A330 of Virgin.

yunglee wrote: ↑

Fri Mar 27, 2020 10:53 am

I'm really lucky being on the approach to the Doncaster Airport and have been working for a week or so. Here's a few shots from my house:

Lucky you The only flying things in my garden are flies, mosquitos and sometimes a butterfly....

Western Global Md11 N546JN heading over my house on its way from Liege to Chicago as 4W4600.

The Magpas air ambulance came over my back garden a few minutes ago. The first aircraft I've seen for at least 3 days.

G-MGPS
2018 Leonardo AW169 over Bedford 31/03/20


Edit:
It was on its way back again 18 minutes later.

Ryan Air 737-8AS EI-EKK heading past my house from East Midlands Airport

Finally saw some more aircraft, for the first time since Tuesday!

G-DHKB
2000 Boeing 757-236(PCF) passing north of Bedford on its way into East Midlands from Leipzig.


G-MGPS
2018 Leonardo AW169 - Magpas air ambulance spotted yet again!


G-SUFK
2008 Eurocopter EC135 P2+

A beautiful Kalitta Air 747-4H6(BCF) N740CK seen heading over my house from Leipzig to East Midlands Airport as K4254 with its landing gear down. The aircraft departed a couple of hours later to Cincinnati as K4254. There were also some other aircraft seen, including ASL Airlines Ireland 737F EI-STK and ASL Airlines France 737F F-GZTT. Also seen was AeroLogic 777-F D-AALN, Enjoy!

Here’s another one from today, Cobham Flight Inspections Beech B200 Super King Air G-FPLD flying over my house at 3000 feet heading from High Wycombe as CLB553. (06/4/20)

A few from yesterday and today.

05/04/2020
G-JMCZ
1989 Boeing 737-4K5(SF) on its way from East Midlands to Leipzig as West Atlantic UK flight NPT771P.



06/04/2020
EI-ISO
2012 Boeing 777-243(ER) as Alitalia AZ608 from Rome to JFK.


G-DHGS
1996 Robinson R22 Beta.
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TC-LJR
2019 Boeing 777-F as Turkish Cargo TK6568 from Atlanta to Istanbul.


EI-DPZ
2007 Boeing 737-8AS as Ryanair RYR29 from Dublin to Luton.

Nothing at all yesterday, a couple of light twins today. Also the Magpas air ambulance again, but I won't bore you with more pictures of that.

G-BWLF
1979 Cessna 404 Titan out of East Midlands straight over my garden this morning. Looks like it did some survey work over south Hertfordshire and Essex and then Kent. Saw it pass by again in the distance just after lunch, presumably heading home to EMA.


G-NIAB
1980 Beech 200C Super King Air out of Stansted on its way to Belfast.

Finally got one .... Overflying Antwerp. The A330 CS-TUR Air Portugal from Lisbon on her way to Beijing at FL 380

Israir seem to be regular into Heathrow in the evenings now.
ISR997 A320 4X-ABG tonight. 3000' over South East London.
Pete.


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Great pictures lads-thanks for sharing.

Bob

Here are my Easter garden spots. A Boeing a day for 3 days, nothing at all yesterday.

Good Friday:
D-ABYL
2014 Boeing 747-830 as Lufthansa flight LH430 from Frankfurt to Chicago at 36,000 feet.


Easter Saturday:
N855FD
2010 Boeing 777-FS2 as Fedex FX2 from Memphis to Stansted at 12,000 feet.


Easter Sunday:
A7-BFJ
2016 Boeing 777-FDZ as Qatar Cargo QR8139 from Brussels to Chicago at 32,000 feet.

here are a dew from my garden in Rayne, Essex over the last few days, eastward outbounds from Stansted....

on the 9th....
A.330 G-VYGM
G-VYGM A.330 Titan over Rayne 09-04-2020 5159 1600px by Andrew Goldsmith, on Flickr

B.747-8F N612UP
N612UP B.747 8-F UPS over Rayne 09-04-2020 5202 1600px by Andrew Goldsmith, on Flickr

and B.777F A7-BFN
A7-BFN B.777F Qatar Cargo over Rayne 09-04-2020 5256 1600px by Andrew Goldsmith, on Flickr

and this morning (14th)....
N612UP again - that seems to be the regular one on the Hong Kong flight at present
N612UP B.747-8F UPS over Rayne 14-04-2020 5281 by Andrew Goldsmith, on Flickr

and B.2072 B.777-F through a gap in the clouds which had rolled in by the time it went over...
B-2072 B.777F China Southern Cargo over rayne 14-04-2020 5309 by Andrew Goldsmith, on Flickr

hopefully i shall see some more and some different ones soon
Andy

A few from yesterday evening, including DHL 757F G-DHKB arriving from Leipzig as QY811 and AmeriJet International 767F N396CM arriving into East Midlands Airport from Cincinnati as M6985, operating instead of the usual DHL.
* more to be added shortly!