‘Scene’ at ‘The East Midlands Airport’

Located almost at the side of the M1 with the cities of Derby, Leicester and Nottingham all less than 20 miles away, the ‘EMA’ is superbly situated at the centre of the East Midlands region.

 

This is what attracts the range of operators that it does

 

N319UP

 

An American registered Boeing 767-34AF of ’United Parcel Service’. (UPS)

 

It first flew in August 1997 and was delivered new to ‘UPS’ the following month.

 

G-BTPE

 

A British Aerospace ATP-F of ‘West Atlantic Airlines’. 

 

It was originally built for ‘British Airways’ (BA) as ‘PE’ and first flew in March1989 spending almost 10 years with ‘BA’ before moving as EC-GZH to ‘Air Europe Express’ (AEE) in Spain.

 

It later carried the registration EC-HGE whilst with ‘AEE’ before being restored to the UK register with ‘Atlantic Airlines’ in October 2007 before moving to ‘West Atlantic’ in  April 2009.

 

EI-SEV

An Irish registered Boeing 737-300 of ‘Ryanair’.

 

An unusual aircraft in the ‘Ryanair’ fleet in that it is the only 737-300 in an otherwise totally 737-800 fleet. The reason being that it was bought specifically as a crew training aircraft and not for commercial operation.

 

It first flew in January 1999 as N60436 with Boeing and was delivered to ‘Azzurra Air’ as EI-CRP the following April.

 

Since then it has flown as PR-SAE in Brazil, OY-MLW in Denmark and HK-4627 in Colombia before joining ‘Ryanair’ in June 2015.

 

N714SA

 

An American registered Boeing 777-FZB of ‘Southern Air’. (SA)

 

Seen being loaded outside the massive DHL freight terminal.

 

Delivered in March 2012 to ‘SA' operating for DHL.

 

G-JECX

A Canadian built Bombardier DHC 8-Q402 of ‘flybe’.

 

The ‘Q’ in the designation indicates quiet.

 

EC-HCF

 

A Brazilian built Embraer EMB 120RT Brasilia of Spanish operator ‘Swift Air’.

 

It first flew 1n 1985 as PT-SIB.

 

The blanked off windows indicate that the aircraft has been converted to a freighter.

 

G-MCGH

Sikorsky S-92A operated by ‘Bristow Helicopters’ on behalf of HM UK Coastguard.

 

CS-TLZ

 

A Portuguese registered Boeing 767-375ERF of ‘euroAtlanticargo’ operating for ‘Star Air’.

 

It first flew in December 1988 with the test registration of N6055X and was delivered in March 1989 as C-FCAJ to ‘Canadian Airlines’.

 

It moved to ‘VARIG’ in Brasil as PP-VPV in December 1997 before coming to its current operator having been converted to a freighter.

 

G-JMCP

A Boeing 737-4Q8F of ‘West Atlantic Airlines’ (WAA).

 

Built as N39340 March 1987 for ‘Continental Airlines’. 

 

Converted to freighter configuration, it moved to ‘TNT Airways’ as a freighter with the Belgian registration OO-TNB.

 

It moved to ‘WAA’ in December 2013.

 

TF-FIG

An Icelandic registered Boeing 757-23APF of ‘Icelandair Cargo’ (IC).

 

It first flew in July 1989 as N571CA for ‘Challenge Air Cargo’ by whom it was leased in Australia to ‘Ansett World Wide’.

 

It came to ‘IC’ in September 1999 who converted it to freighter.

 

OE-IAT

An Austrian registered Boeing 737-4M0F of ‘TNT Airways’.

 

Built for the leasing company GECAS and first registered to Boeing as N1015B. 

 

Its first flight was in January 1999 and was delivered to the Russian operator ‘Aeroflot’ in April 1999.

 

It was registered as VP-BAR. The Russians registering the aircraft in Bermuda to avoid paying import taxes in Russia.

 

In 2004, it moved to ‘Garuda’ in Indonesia as PK-GZO before being converted to a freighter and joining ‘TNT’ in June 2012.

 

OY-SRL

A Danish registered Boeing 767-232F of ‘Star Air Freight’ (SAF), a Danish company. 

 

Interestingly it carries joint ‘Maersk’ titling. 

 

‘Maersk’ being a major company worldwide in the transport and energy sectors. 

 

Delivered to ‘Delta Airlines’ in January 1983 as N107DL.

 

It was converted to a freighter by Israel Aircraft Industries in 2006 when it joined ‘SAF’.