Pretty Good Week at Southend

Not quite as exciting as Singapore, but Southend continued to produce some interesting movements… Last week was especially good, for a typically rather quiet time of the year for maintenance movements. The weather wasn’t bad (mostly) too!

First, Saturday brought the weekly Volotea flight, which came in the form of Volotea’s newest acquisition:

EI-FBM Volotea B712 at Southend EGMC by AeroPics, on Flickr

Sunday brought British Airways – an Embraer departing after having diverting in the previous day as it missed the London City lunchtime curfew.

G-LCYI British Airways E170 at Southend EGMC by AeroPics, on Flickr

Monday brought a visitor from Kazakhstan, in the form of an Air Astana A320 arriving direct from Aktubinsk for end of lease maintenance early in the morning:

P4-PAS Air Astana A320 at Southend EGMC by AeroPics, on Flickr

Tuesday brought a test flight of the latest acquisition for Nextjet, an ATP. This was the first flight of this aircraft in over 3 years, since then it had been stored out in the open at SOutrhend, before and extensive programme of maintenance in preparation for delivery! Passenger configured ATPs are now quite a rarity.

SE-MEX Nextjet ATP at Southend EGMC by AeroPics, on Flickr

SE-MEX Nextjet ATP at Southend EGMC by AeroPics, on Flickr

Thursday brought the arrival of an Aero Contractors of Nigeria 737 from Bournemouth after having being repainted into the new livery. A photo from a new spot for me: No less than 3 Aero Contractors 737s are currently at Southend!

5N-BLC Aero Contractors B735 at Southend EGMC by AeroPics, on Flickr

And Friday brought the departure of another Malmo Aviation RJ100 after maintenance:

SE-DSS Malmo Aviation RJ1H at Southend EGMC by AeroPics, on Flickr

And the wonderful Blue Islands ATR42, which had also received maintenance at Southend!

G-ZEBS Blue Islands AT43 at Southend EGMC by AeroPics, on Flickr

G-ZEBS Blue Islands AT43 at Southend EGMC by AeroPics, on Flickr
As always – I hope these are of interest!