When I first visited in the 1950’s, ‘MIA” as it is now it was simply Ringway airport where we lads sat on the grass writing down the registrations only a stones throw from the aircraft.
Only the posh kids possessed cameras, I certainly didn’t. The ladies in the nearby cafe kept us going with cups of tea and bottles of pop.
There are still some old timers (other than me) ‘lurking’ in the background,
G-DMCA
A McDonnell Douglas DC-10-30
Originally built for ‘Zambia Airways’ (ZA) as N3016Z. It first flew on 11th. November 1980 but was only delivered to ‘ZA’ in July 1984.
It came to ‘Monarch Airlines’ in March 1996 being scrapped at Manchester in 2003 with the cockpit section being preserved there.
G-GDFY
A Boeing 737-86Q which first flew in October 2001 as N289CD for ‘Boullioun Air Services’ who are I believe a leasing company.
In November 2001 it was leased to ‘Travel Services’ in the Czech Republic as OK-TVC. Whilst with them, it was leased further to ‘Oman Air’ in 2002 and ‘Malaysia Airlines’ in 2005 before going to ‘Travel Service Hungary’ as HA-LKE in 2010.
It came to ‘Jet2’ in April 2014.
G-ZBAM
An Airbus A 321-231 of ‘Monarch Airlines’ (MA) which first flew on 25th. March 2014 with the German test registration of
D-AVZT. Delivered new to ‘MA’ on 10 April 2014.
D-AGWO
An Airbus A319-132 of ‘germanwings’. First flying on 13th. of January 2010 with the test registration of D-AVWH.
It was delivered new to the operator on the 22nd of January 2010.
G-JEDP
Originally a De Havilland Canada design called the Dash-8. Today it is marketed by Bombardier. It first flew in 2003 and was delivered new to ‘flybe’ in January 2004
D-ACNQ
Another Canadian built aircraft. This time a Canadair Regional Jet CRJ 900 of ‘Eurowings’. It first flew on the 7th. of January 2011 and was delivered new to the operator on the 21st.
‘Eurowings’ (EW) was formed in 1993 following the merger of two airlines. NFD based in Nurnberg and RFG in Dortmund. Growing to a size where they were able to operate aircraft up to the size of the Airbus A310. ‘EW’ were taken over by ‘Lufthansa’ and now operates as part of ‘Lufthansa Regional’. In July 2014 ‘Lufthansa’ announced that the CRJ fleet will be withdrawn and be replaced by Airbus A320’s.
PH-BXA
A Boeing 737-8K2 of KLM Royal Dutch Airlines. It first flew in January 1999 with the American test registration N1786B. It was then delivered to KLM 0n the 25th. of February 1999.
Since 2008 it has been painted in this ‘retro’ livery that was in use by the airline in the 1950’s. It was done so to celebrate 90 years of KLM.
LY-FLH
A Boeing 737-382 of ‘Small Planet Airlines’ (SPA) who are based in Lithuania. It first flew on 11/02/1992 and was leased on 25/02/1992 to ‘TAP Air Portugal’ by the ‘International Lease Finance Corporation’ (ILFC) as CS-TIK.
In 1999 on the 30th. of April ‘ILFC’ leased it to ‘Air Malta’ as 9H-ADN.
On 24/05/2004 it went to ‘Air Sahara’ as VT-SAY (an Indian registration). While still carrying this registration, it had a spell with ‘Jetlite’ before coming to ‘SPA’ in July 2007.
G-TAWD
A Boeing 737-8K5 which first flew on the 8th. of February 2012 and was delivered new to the airline on the 23rd. of February 2012.
Note the complex arrangement of wingtip ‘hardware’ all of which are to improve fuel burn and performance.
EI-DEA
An Airbus A320-214 of Irish operator ‘Aer Lingus’.
It first flew with the French test registration F-WWBX in March 2004 being delivered to the airline on the 5th. of April 2004.
SU-GDY
A Boeing 737-866 of ‘Egyptair’. It first flew on the 14th. of October 2010 being delivered on the 22nd.
D-CGEO
A Learjet 60 operated by MHS Aviation Gmbh out of their Munich base. It was new to ‘Silver Bird’ in 1999. Then moving to ‘Cirrus Aviation’ in 2006 before coming to MHS.
There was a time when ‘British Airways’ (BA) provided a variety of aircraft types going to many destinations. During this visit, ‘BA’s only representatives were a couple of A 320‘s and this A319.
G-EUPL
An Airbus A 319-131 of ‘British Airways’. It first flew on 24th. of May 2000 with the German test registration of D-AVYP and was delivered on the 8th. of June 2000.
G-OXLS
A Cessna 560XL Citation 2 operated by a company called ‘Hanger8’.
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