Vatican aircraft ???
as introduction : from flagspot.net :
Aircraft Marking
The Holy See, naturally, doesn’t have an air force. As far as I know it doesn’t even have planes. However, when the pope is taking a flight, his arms appear next to the front door of the plane. See: http://www.airliners.net/351454, http://www.airliners.net/261961 and http://www.airliners.net/522829. It seems that those arms are left on the plane afterwards as a declaration “The Pope flew in this plane” as seen on the out-of-service ex-Viasa plane at http://www.airliners.net/484315.
Dov Gutterman, 28 June 2004
The pope travel only in “Catholic” airlines. When he visit a “Chatolic” state he uses the local flag carrier airline to his flight. If there are more then one flag-cattier, he don’t insult anybody and used all of them.
In his visit to Mexico, the pope JP II used Mexicana on one way and Aero-Mexico on the other
It seems that the pope emblem is not removed afterwards and the plane still carry it as a token and to show that this is a “papal plane”.
When visiting a non-Catholic state, the pope use Alitalia planes.
Dov Gutterman, 4 July 2007
last Sunday, I could see -on TV /France 3/ 3 mini-films of the new series ‘le 5ème Commandement’
and an aircraft (Diamond ?) with Vatican logo, &… if I saw well – a HV-registration…!!!
but I can’t find anything of this (rare !) aircraft with Internet/Google…>> maybe you can…?
friendly, Etienne
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