A couple of more exotic airliners caught late afternoon at Southend this week.
First a rather nice Yakutia 757 being towed back to the hangar after engine runs in the last of the afternoon light:
VQ-BCK Yakutia B752 at Southend EGMC by AeroPics, on Flickr
VQ-BCK Yakutia B752 at Southend EGMC by AeroPics, on Flickr
And an Air Astana A321 – unusual to see the larger Airbus variant of Air Astana at Southend taxiing out prior to departure to Aktubinsk just before sunset.
P4-NAS Air Astana A321 at Southend EGMC by AeroPics, on Flickr
Hope these are of interest.
By: AeroPics - 3rd February 2013 at 21:38
Typical Russian reliability then! The Yakutia 757 turned up for maintenance a year later than it was originally planned!
By: Culpano - 3rd February 2013 at 16:49
Yep it does Hannover as well. Supposed to do Palma one day a week but it always gets cancelled as it did when I was there in September.
By: AeroPics - 3rd February 2013 at 15:58
Thanks MSR777, Bristol_Rob and Culpano for your comments.
The Yakutia is a nice scheme indeed – think its meant to show the Northern Lights on its tail – and nice to see an airline which only has foreign alphabet titles on it.
Culpano – I had noticed that Manchester saw a Yakutia 737 diversion – although I don’t think its any rarer! Its seen on scheduled flights to Dresden all year round – unlike the seasonal charter flights to Palma operated by the 757! 🙂 The Air Astana A320 which visited Manchester did of course come from Southend!
By: Culpano - 3rd February 2013 at 14:17
Wow – more Southend exotica ! Excellent. I saw the very same Yakutia in Palma but it was cloudy that morning ! Air Astana A321 ? Crikey – I didn’t even know they had them. I knew they had A320s as we got one in Manchester. We also got the rarer Yakutia 737-700 last week 😀
Great shots btw.
By: Bristol_Rob - 2nd February 2013 at 16:37
Very nice catches! 🙂
Rob
🙂
By: MSR777 - 1st February 2013 at 22:13
Great pics. I really like the Yakutia colours.
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