Most people think of Farnborough as busy for two weeks every other year with a huge international airshow, and for the 2 years in between nothing happens apart from a few biz jet movements. Whilst that might have been the case 5 years ago Farnborough is seriously on the up, and in terms of movements is similar to many of the regional airports such as Belfast City and Southampton.
Today was a very good example of the diversity and interest that Farnborough can bring, with several airliner types intermingling with the vast amounts of biz jets. Business aviation doesnt seem to interest a great deal of people these days, so instead of bombarding you with all the pictures of Citations etc here are my photos over the last few days of the airliner types we have been recieving, intermingled with a few nice biz jets as well 😀
First off is an Eastern Saab 2000 that positioned in from Norwich, and departed out as a charter to Belfast City, not sure if AndrewM has pics from the other end or not.
Next is a G4, in old Saudi Arabian Airlines colours departing to Geneva:
Dornier 328JETs are quite common here, Austrian ones often dominating:
A Global Express operated by the same Company as the first J328:
And finally a member of the Royal Family departing to Manchester:
By: LBARULES - 26th June 2005 at 17:46
Superb shots Mark, love seeing them from Farnborough :).
By: andrewm - 25th June 2005 at 20:19
Mark when does our airliner BJ arrive :p (sorry private joke hehe)
By: MANAIRPORTMAD - 25th June 2005 at 19:01
Great shots!1
By: Mark L - 25th June 2005 at 18:14
Spent the afternoon up at Farnborough today in a break from exams. Several “heavies” were due in as part of an Arab invasion, but the weather sadly did not play ball.
The Dubai Government BBJ:
The Sharjah Government A319CJ:
The Jordanian Governments Challenger:
And an Irish Lear Jet actualy being used by a member of the Royal Family, under a “Sparrowhawk” callsign from Aberdeen:
By: adwwebber - 13th June 2005 at 19:59
That An-72 has been a regular visitor into East Midlands recently, unless there are more than one ?
By: Humberside - 13th June 2005 at 18:39
Nice pic
By: Mark L - 13th June 2005 at 14:40
Yeah I guess so. The Beacon pod looks irregularly large too…
By: wannabe pilot - 13th June 2005 at 14:09
As I said on msn, excellent shot. Those ‘pods’ towards the rear of the fuselage. Are they some kind of anti-missile mechanism?
By: Mark L - 13th June 2005 at 13:54
Bumping this one back up again. A Senior member of the Royal Family flew form here to Liverpool today with an entourage of 11, meaning the 146 was in use in place of the usual 125. Both 146s have now been repainted into this low viz scheme, I caught ZE700 at AMS last week being wheeled out of the paint shop.
By: ommaroo - 27th May 2005 at 20:32
lucky chap having access to an airfield..all I have here are helicopters!..(Near Yeovil).
By: MANAIRPORTMAD - 27th May 2005 at 20:20
Fantastic shots!
By: Mark L - 27th May 2005 at 19:51
The HLX came out quite nicely, but I think photobucket resized both biz jet shots. Maybe it doesnt like them either!
By: Humberside - 27th May 2005 at 19:49
Nice shots there, particulalry like the Hapag Lloyd executive
By: Mark L - 27th May 2005 at 18:49
Spent most of the day up here again today, several interesting airliners, and lots of Biz!
VP-BCC operating a Corporate Shuttle from the Middle East:
D-AHLE of Hapag Lloyd Executive. It uses the HLX: Excellent callsign and has Tui smiles, so it counts as an airliner 😀
Netjets Europe first Beechjet Hawker 400XP, going to be a very common sight in Europe by the end of the year:
And finally you may be feeling some deja vu as I showed you this corporate MD80 a month or so ago. Its operating for a Canadaian firm with oil interests in Kazakhstan, and routes through here from Canada to Almaty. Today she departed for Iqalit, 2 days ago she arrived from Vancouver! One hell of a trek for an MD80, but undoubtadley ktited out like a palace inside!
By: Mark L - 18th May 2005 at 21:05
Its a Konica Minolta Dimage Z10, retails for about £140 🙂
By: ommaroo - 18th May 2005 at 20:01
super photos!
Most people think of Farnborough as busy for two weeks every other year with a huge international airshow, and for the 2 years in between nothing happens apart from a few biz jet movements. Whilst that might have been the case 5 years ago Farnborough is seriously on the up, and in terms of movements is similar to many of the regional airports such as Belfast City and Southampton.
Today was a very good example of the diversity and interest that Farnborough can bring, with several airliner types intermingling with the vast amounts of biz jets. Business aviation doesnt seem to interest a great deal of people these days, so instead of bombarding you with all the pictures of Citations etc here are my photos over the last few days of the airliner types we have been recieving, intermingled with a few nice biz jets as well 😀
First off is an Eastern Saab 2000 that positioned in from Norwich, and departed out as a charter to Belfast City, not sure if AndrewM has pics from the other end or not.
Next is a G4, in old Saudi Arabian Airlines colours departing to Geneva:
Dornier 328JETs are quite common here, Austrian ones often dominating:
A Global Express operated by the same Company as the first J328:
And finally a member of the Royal Family departing to Manchester:
One detail missing…what camera did you use..Ommaroo would love to know!
By: LBARULES - 18th May 2005 at 15:37
Still look great, cracking shot Mark 🙂
By: Mark L - 18th May 2005 at 15:32
This is the type of shot you are stuck with at the other end, by runway 24 which is sadly the predominant runway. This is N31EX arriving from Teterboro, New Jersey:
By: Mark L - 16th May 2005 at 18:31
Thanks very much Tom, the wind unexpectedly swung round today allowing me to get a few more pics, doesnt look like it will hold though sadly 🙁
By: LBARULES - 16th May 2005 at 18:16
What a stunning machine, cracking shots once again Mark, really enjoying your daily Farnborough reports 🙂
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