Something I mention from time to time, for the benefit of new readers/viewers.
Is that if you were to single click on any image in these blogs, it will take you to my ‘Flickr’ page where the image you have clicked is available to view in a larger format enabling details to be viewed more clearly.
A visit to the EMA at Castle Donington on the borders of Derbyshire and Leicestershire to see the freight aircraft come and go, has become one of mine and friend John Beastall’s (who, incidentally, supplied all the aircraft details) little pleasures in life.
I like freighters.
They are often older former passenger airliners that have been converted when their passenger flying days are done.
That said, there are numbers of new build aircraft joining the ranks.
If there is a downside, it is the knowledge that much of the freight they bring into the country are goods and products that in years gone by we would have, as a nation, produced for ourselves.
Anyone seeking further details of the aircraft are advised to type the second line details of type and c/n into Google and go to the ‘planespotters.net’ entry.
G-NPTX ‘West Atlantic’.
Boeing 737-4C9F c/n 25429
on Dennis Basford’srailsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’
New to ‘Luxair’ in February 1992 registered LX-LGF having first flown on 30/01/1992.
Pictured having arrived from Jersey and later going to Edinburgh.
G-JMCV ‘West Atlantic’.
Boeing 737-4K5F c/n 24128
on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’
New to ‘Hapag-Lloyd’ in May 1989 as D-AHLO.
Pictured having arrived from Aberdeen.
N334UP ‘UPS Airlines’ (United Parcel Service).
Boeing 767-34AF c/n 34844
on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’
New to ‘UPS’ in November 2001.
Pictured having arrived from Philadelphia and later departing to Cologne.
G-OHJK ‘ASL Airlines’.
Boeing 737-82RF c/n 35701
on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’
New to ‘Pegasus’ (Turkey) registered TC-AAH in January 2008.
Pictured having arrived from Belfast and later departing to Paris.
OY-SRH ‘Maersk Air Cargo / Star Air’ (Denmark).
Boeing 767-204ERF c/n 24457
on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’
New to ‘Britannia Airways’ registered G-BPFV in March 1989.
In its ‘Britannia Airways’ days, I flew in this aircraft on a return flight from Corfu.
Pictured having arrived from Edinburgh and later departing to Cologne.
