Finnair’s New CEO, Turkka Kuusisto, was in London during October 2024 to mark 70 years of the flag carrier’s services to Heathrow, and discuss other issues, in a media roundtable.
The fuselage of Gloster Javelin FAW9 XH767 left the Yorkshire Air Museum at Elvington on 22 October, heading for a new home at the East Midlands Aeropark adjacent to East Midlands Airport in Derbyshire.
Douglas DC-3 floatplane N130Q made its first water landing for 20 years at Moosehead Lake, north-western Maine on 14 September, with Tunison Foundation pilots Eric Zipkin and Garrett Fleishman in the left and right-hand seats respectively.
Shorts Tucano T1 ZF372 arrived at the Newark Air Museum at Winthorpe, Nottinghamshire on 23 October, following a short period of negotiation with Everett Aero of Sproughton, Suffolk.
Supermarine Spitfire VIII MV154, based until recently at Duxford with Maxi Gainza, made its first flight since being exported to Australia at Archerfield Airport, just south of Brisbane, Queensland on 18 October.
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