Saw 2 of these while departing Nice on an SN Brussels Avro RJ100 on Thursday. They were well away from the terminal and made me wonder what they are and why they were there. Are there commercial flights to Nice from Russia or could they have been government aircraft? What type by the way?
Curious Peter
By: steve rowell - 14th March 2004 at 08:19
That 737BBJ is a common visitor down here also
By: tenthije - 13th March 2004 at 22:26
the top one is a Tu154 from Rossiya. This is the state owned airline. They have some scheduled passenger flights, but most of their fleet is used to transport VIPs, generals, top bureaucrats etc.
Behind it is indeed a DHL Convair.
By: Papa Lima - 13th March 2004 at 22:24
Many thanks, Mark L, I’m more into historic really, but sometimes see unusual commercial aircraft on my travels. I also wanted to see how my pix would appear on the site!
Tack ska du ha, as they say in this part of the world!
By: Mark L - 13th March 2004 at 22:15
N737CC is a very regular visitor to my home airport of Farnborough. It is registered to Wells Fargo Bank, which I believe is just the name of the financier of the aircraft rather than the particular owner/operator. I think it operates for Middle East Jet, which is an exclusive middle eastern biz jet operator of outlandish types such as 737, 757, and 777 even!
However it ends up all over the world, middlee east far etas, USA etc.
By: Papa Lima - 13th March 2004 at 22:08
Another visitor at Nice was N737CC, shown here. I’d also like to know a little more about it, since there are no logos on it.
Any clues?
Sorry about the picture quality, but the Avro window was not too clean!
By: Mark L - 13th March 2004 at 22:05
The nearest is a Tupolev TU154, the one behind looked like a DHL Convair, but I’m not too good with my olde props.
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