Southend Surprises!

The last few days have been unusually busy at Southend with an unique mix of movement:

The regular Volotea 717 arriving very nice and low from Palma:

EI-EWI Volotea B717 at Southend EGMC by AeroPics, on Flickr

And thanks to a full length backtrack, a photo of it taxiing in:

EI-EWI Volotea B717 at Southend EGMC by AeroPics, on Flickr

The nice Atlantic Airways RJ100 in the new livery arriving not for maintenance – but to operate a charter to Karup in Denmark:

OY-RCC Atlantic Airways RJ1H at Southend EGMC by AeroPics, on Flickr

An exotic Nigerian 737 taxing out for a post maintenance test flight:

5N-BOC Aero Contractors B734 at Southend EGMC by AeroPics, on Flickr

And one of only two Air France Embraer 135s arriving for painting into Hop colours:

F-GRGQ Air France by Regional E135 at Southend EGMC by AeroPics, on Flickr

And the Nigerian 737 returning from its 2 hour test flight – an excellent early smoky touchdown!

5N-BOC Aero Contractors B734 at Southend EGMC by AeroPics, on Flickr

And the repainted Hop Embraer departing back to Paris:

F-HBXF HOP E170 at Southend EGMC by AeroPics, on Flickr

F-HBXF HOP E170 at Southend EGMC by AeroPics, on Flickr

N571TP 737-3300 formerly with Brussels Airlines arriving at Southend for maintenance / storage from Perpignan. No titles, but I believ the last Boeing kicking about in Brussels livery:

N571TP B733 at Southend EGMC by AeroPics, on Flickr

And Jet2 latest acquisition G-GDFV taxing on a test flight:

G-GDFV Jet2 B738 at Southend EGMC by AeroPics, on Flickr

And returning. The aircraft later departed to Manchester to enter service:

G-GDFV Jet2 B738 at Southend EGMC by AeroPics, on Flickr

As always, I hope these are of interest.