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C-RJGI Boelne 7J7C-oBllD Short J5oC-ITIJI DC9

ffiil-mffi#reC-BIzf Short 360G-PKBE DC9C-BFDI Archer IIG-PKBE DC9XX5O0 Jetstrearn nfv ry'eC-BJCI Boetne 7J7C-ff,GE Tonalarklo(494 JetstrearC-PKBE DC9c-uKRlt Me 116 2o0G-BIZI Short 35Oc-Bl'lAR Short 16OEI-CFC SA^B 3rloG-Blct Boella T)7CTBIYH Short 33OC-0IAH Short 36O

G-mDY Cesena 310RHFI/CR Cltatlon IIGElrf-shErytrC-BIUI llooney H2OJc-oBllD shod 360c-mDf Cesena l10PC-PKBE DC9.

c-IoGP JebsUreanG-SIOD TonatnrkC-BCGS ArrowC-PK3E DC9G-BICI Boetng 737oGUIF hia8llla

c-BrYH Short 33O

EHTB ilA*JreG-PKBD DC9C-OBllD Short 350G-BRDO Cessna 1778 DIVG-EIGI Boelng 737

G-OSMB Cltatlon IIG-BLZI Short 360C-ffiIG AztecC-HllZ T57tI ElrefLyC-BIZI Short 360C-BLNJ BNZI IsfanderEI-CFC SAAB 3&OC-BMAH DC9

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G-BIZI Shod 150CTSBTC Short 350c-SB C Short 360G-OBIX Short 360G-BlrAX DCgEI.CFC S^AB 3{Oc-BICr Boelns T3?CFBIYfl Shorb 33Oc-ol,AH short 35o

3. 0k!85&uUlec-nrcB Short 360C-BIISI tlughes 359D

G-Il]lM }loelng T)7-)OOC-B0PU Grob.11JC-BIgr Shod 160CFmCE TooalaxkCFBI{GR Tooa}rark

Effirtrt*ffi;kgIC--EnsU*pCTBIZI Short 36O

G-BIPV Short f60CFBUAK D69C-3HAX DCaG-BlrAJ( DC9G-BLUI short 160c-BIPv Short 36qcHp--ess#.eC-SBAC Sho* 360c-8LUr Short 35oc-Br{Ax D@

G-BIW rli.Tt|8EI#U.$AADJPG-oElD Shod 35OG-SBAC Shod trOc-BIgI Short 360OFEPA Cltatlon IIcFBt{aK DcaG-BICY lp,ett6, /)lG-Alrr D@CFOBI{D ShorL 35OG-E|AI( DCaqkEL-Ee€lkC-SE c Shofl f6oC-BIIH Strort 330CFTBAC $Dr:t 360

c-Brw rts.7t8G-B{I4 Short 360C-O.ICB JetraagerG-Sr J( m9G-JLil DtrchessF-GEH rune Alr f,9o

bAgZA Ceaera EIJOLC-APVF hrtzer Elster BG-BIOI bdflelt LLZIhAC-IrGn JeilstreauF-GEDV t(lm Al.r A90G-occC BAe 125 B00Bc-oBlID shod 360CFAnfi AstecG-EIDI DCg

il-crn sr^3 3llo

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O()-InlI BtraEl1laEtlHl'ffifffiooC-oBHD Short 360C-PKBE DC9

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G-oBHD short 360G-BLZI Short, 360&w-sua3eG-ODi{P Cessna J1ORG-IOGR JeUstreenc-OBl{D Short 360C-OIAH Short 360

7. OGI/IK BrastllaG-SOUL Cessna l[0RG-BSEJ Jetra.ngerG-PK3D DC9C-OBI{D Short 360G-PKBD DC9

B. C-PrGD DCaCFIEAB Boe1ng 757G-TKBD DC9G-KYJ Boelng T)7C-OSNB Cltatlon IIG-B},lAM DC9OGIIIH B]iaslllaC-BLTI Short 360

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C-RJGI Boelne 7J7C-oBllD Short J5oC-ITIJI DC9

ffiil-mffi#reC-BIzf Short 360G-PKBE DC9C-BFDI Archer IIG-PKBE DC9XX5O0 Jetstrearn nfv ry'eC-BJCI Boetne 7J7C-ff,GE Tonalarklo(494 JetstrearC-PKBE DC9c-uKRlt Me 116 2o0G-BIZI Short 35Oc-Bl'lAR Short 16OEI-CFC SA^B 3rloG-Blct Boella T)7CTBIYH Short 33OC-0IAH Short 36O

G-mDY Cesena 310RHFI/CR Cltatlon IIGElrf-shErytrC-BIUI llooney H2OJc-oBllD shod 360c-mDf Cesena l10PC-PKBE DC9.

c-IoGP JebsUreanG-SIOD TonatnrkC-BCGS ArrowC-PK3E DC9G-BICI Boetng 737oGUIF hia8llla

c-BrYH Short 33O

EHTB ilA*JreG-PKBD DC9C-OBllD Short 350G-BRDO Cessna 1778 DIVG-EIGI Boelng 737

G-OSMB Cltatlon IIG-BLZI Short 360C-ffiIG AztecC-HllZ T57tI ElrefLyC-BIZI Short 360C-BLNJ BNZI IsfanderEI-CFC SAAB 3&OC-BMAH DC9

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1. G-MNC Brelns 7)?c-Br'rAG DC9c-Bl{ r( DL9C-IEAB Boelne 757CTBTLT Eoelne 717CTBIZI Short 16OC-TERI I?34 BonanzaC-BI,IAK DL9EI-CFD SAAB J&Otrffirfib-*

G-BIZI Shod 150CTSBTC Short 350c-SB C Short 360G-OBIX Short 360G-BlrAX DCgEI.CFC S^AB 3{Oc-BICr Boelns T3?CFBIYfl Shorb 33Oc-ol,AH short 35o

3. 0k!85&uUlec-nrcB Short 360C-BIISI tlughes 359D

G-Il]lM }loelng T)7-)OOC-B0PU Grob.11JC-BIgr Shod 160CFmCE TooalaxkCFBI{GR Tooa}rark

Effirtrt*ffi;kgIC--EnsU*pCTBIZI Short 36O

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G-BIW rli.Tt|8EI#U.$AADJPG-oElD Shod 35OG-SBAC Shod trOc-BIgI Short 360OFEPA Cltatlon IIcFBt{aK DcaG-BICY lp,ett6, /)lG-Alrr D@CFOBI{D ShorL 35OG-E|AI( DCaqkEL-Ee€lkC-SE c Shofl f6oC-BIIH Strort 330CFTBAC $Dr:t 360

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C-BIPV Short

G-SBAC Short

Im/BRApFonp lrovBffi{rs (contd. )ATA ATD

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CFBSCP Co6€or 1jPc-BIUr Sho*,60G-WIL Ceaoa 1ZlCFBFIAJI DC9

c-IEAc tufits 791c-BI,lIr Short 360c-EYr tulrg WOO-DTI BraslllsG-BIZI Short 360

C-BIPV Short 35O

I[:ffiJdnD.^@C-BLZI Short 36Oc-PlGD DC9H}.VCP Cltatlon IIC-OBHD Short 36OC.EI,DH DC9O0.IIIO hasl-llaF]T-CFA SAIB 3TOrrsrrr-matr3rC-TBAC short 360

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HEGIU K1nc Atr 200effm:tfuartg,ltCFBFYB 8p,elry, ?)?CFIDGI Jetstrea.nG-HtlP nod(xeu 695AG-OBII( Short 350c-B{ax Ir9

G-Br{Al{ DL9C-ETAil DCA

G-BIzr Short 350CrmYJ le,el:le 7)?OGIIIO kzel-lLaffi{6',igBET-CFI) SM-B ?Od:ffiilB-"c-TBAc sholt 35o

oEur.l*EstlleG-OBII( Short 35O

tHffi*:f#'n,+?9 JoLstroarC-XfflU JetrargerC-6}IB Cltatlon fIC-BIIil Coseua ,+21c

G-UE8 JstctloarG-X0{A}r D@xY?8, EAo u5C-OBIf, Srort 35OG-nlAn $rort 360

c-BI4r Short 360G-orlll Sttort 35O

E@-&rf[llaE=SES-talL:$G-BII(I h^ron(Ln{AH Da9G-@llll lstecG-&Alr D09(LIIEV Jotefroanc-Bf.zt Sttort 360c-n{Ar{ Dc9ffiffi;.

Ir.

CFYACI( Short 360G-OBIX Short 360G-BFTAU DCa

33 1tA2 G-BLZI Short 360

ATA ATDdEfe -oB)50926to05L235L525765518081817LB3)L9L5a2)dttgon5'o@509.23c454L735 L436tzt+zL)55L4)9Lqfi15261623 L6U+180818*L9L2n*zttq

ums/rnrorom rcvnmns (cou!4,) __ATA If,D

l2.c-PlcBl{ Dca 7Y+2-E#j$U*Sukqstree*",I /e tTY ts)6c-ptinllnc9'-- LW0G!{ID brasllla 1904SFDDI Cltatlon rI ry's 2Ot3 Ln9ffiilBidr["F6*- mz?c-Hrnr Dca zjhlG-EYJ Boelne 737 d,,0

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e*#o.gte**euJJ../"CFBIST Short 360GBIIII Short 33O

10.G-BE@ rE.z$G-411tr Sho* 360ffiG-BIXI XNZI IslarderG-Erax DcaCrDI[tl fiwhes 359D(LEm Trln fuulrr,eJ.c-EflE bw 7)7G.AltrJ 8s.fl8d+9 latstreai(iBIr'I Sho* 35OG-ilil DL9

G-$rAr DA9

u.G-DEE rS.748G-EIPV Stlort 35OG{)BIIC Short 350(LEfir f,hg AIr 20oG-BIst Short 360II{82 Je,tscrealG-nfC,f JetlangerG-E.I{H DCa(L()BII( Short 350(LElltr sbod 360

ffiffiHtf"G-SEAC Short 360

lz.c-BF,'z Elxzf rsrarderElD(.egffrsGOEII( $tatt F0ILIEnH PA-60 Aemstar,-ffiG.HGI{ DC9CFNfl JetralgerG-UEP Jdstrea^u

13.G-EE(E Hs.7&8c-BIPv shoru 35Oc-BIUr short 360C-BlEr lftAheE 369DG-EIE DCAG-EIPI bdflell. 112CrEfiX SenecaCFBELB Chemkee 14OG-UEY JeitstreenG-SIrJ Ceeene 414G-ll(trr0 lbkker 100G-rtrIlt D69G-sIPv Shoat 360G-olilP cesgma 310nEI=qEC-SIAD

'40c-BIUf Sho* 360CFPKD{ DCa

l4.eME 8.748EI"$D.SCAD.3p-G-()NE mrg A1r 200G-ArcC Co6sn8 I'l50KG-l(Ill DL9G-BIZI short 360lIL7202 Challeaner 601dffifDdq--

15.C-ErJr{ DCaGEIJXT DC9eDLZr short 360CrI(xD DC9

EFcns.EAAD.3lmG-PI(E' DC9

164tr8&&saUraC-oHlD Short 360cFIxBD DC9C-TAIR SenecaG-Eru Boelng 737G-IIf,R JetstreanG.BMIX SenecaG-BIAI Short 360G-BIPY Short 360G-Efi Soehg 737

. C-olHD Shoru 360G.EI,DH DC9

EI-CFC SMB 3IOflrry?r-r#effie!c-oBlx Short 360C-iltIrZ Tt h Squlr:lofG-PKEI DC9c-EDll Seoecac-P[Bt If9CrBLZr Sbort 360G-GFff Iongfia.qerHBIf, Short ,OoGliID Easr.afsdffiT,=FffDZc-Ul(rc ft*ker 100G-BrIH Sltort 33OC-oIlII sho* 360

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G-m(E l[i.?{8c-Bl{An Short 360ELCtr'D S!rrS-3&OeFHGlr D@G-BSCL Uarzd'or IIc-fXP nocfcrelt 6!JAc-ErJ &,eLry, T)7C-I{AIL CoEaDs 3{O

o?o?0803oB30@)4LL?2L324tt+!5L5P'8

o7o2o809oEd+ogyLLY1224t2tl,7Lu?lLW7t5L31610,;6t,'?1814L90L1914dqd.9oru08060836q9?sq954125L3L4t5L9180718a1LgL5?a26zj']tJ+

Ly)L554.L'.n6181118r91851 Ltt59204??4ry

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c-6ffif-r8itor rr

C-BIPV Short

G-SBAC Short

@/BRADrtnD ltovBtrxfls ( conrd. )6.

OG.IIIO kaslllac-ffiffiit?oG.EIDH DL9c-lXI6 Ces8tls 310KG-EIZF Eoerqg 7)7G-D{DK SeoecaC-Eu)H I'CAC-CFRI Ionananger

effiw*#c-BIcB Srrort 35oEI-CFts Slm ir()ffc-xirx boqs 7nG-OPM flavaJoG.PIGI{ I'09

OO-I,IF tuaslllad!ffir!m,*'soG-flCBr{ DCazdll+L JetsLreanc-Pr(3r{ DcaG-f&n JekUreaoC-ODIID Short 360G-BL?I Sho* 350ET-GFB SAAB 3IO@-XIIO fusslrlaarmrffiit.ymG-H(!I{ Dog

G-OBIID Short 35Oc-PKil DCgc.TKm Coasoa l10n

r,m/Bn Drom t,0vm@nEl-col[td..)_^TD

o?ttt+oe5q935lofoL276,t+56L6ttt+1806t9L5Lfii+?l.oBd)5

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L?.C-BEXE rls.TtrOG-BL,!Ar Short 350xxrg5 .retstrneanEI;$EA.E$&&PG-OBI{D Short 360G.Eu)H DC9G-BItr T6? HreflyC-I&n JetstreamG-Bt{ff SenecaC-OBIID Short 350G-BIAI Shoru 360G-GFffi Io.ngRanger

20.c-I&P JertobrelrCTOBII( Short 35Oc-tKE{ DcaCrEfi Boeln8 737oeEE,esallJe'zfizL N$ t25G-Brffi Short 330C-SBAC Short 35o

21.G-EU(E rS.7&Bffi'"c-m{AH DC9G-TTCPZ Ce86na 310nc-BtrAI{ DCgG.BI,IAH DCA

Zz.CanlJ[t WG-oBIx Short 360

C-EIDH DC9

ecEB$rI.jgoc-ErDH DC9

IEs - c-PKE{ DG9

H-eBr*]f*G-ODllP Cessna 310RG-oBI|D Shqrt 350C-BilH Short 33OeTBAc Short 360

ATA ATDd-zoz -0B11OBfi0921@5?Lzat4')tll+tri1601L6fi1818LB351915L92220fi2724214?

o?o708010a?1001L212LW31535LTLL18191918202?zLL5d.56

o?20o8t90831L0LS t?o9Lz)BLU+5L67|.Lrco t7L7L8)319oZ LU+?1918m5L2Ltnx53

ATA ATDd_Ztz_oB1509L40947

Drv LL5)L)58Ltgz152)L6%lBOB7Wts)5191820182ttB2127

C-oBllD short 360C-BIPV Shod l5O

c-oBII( Short 360c-PKBlt DC9

c-oBII( short 360c-AvCE Cesgna tr172Hc-oBlr( Short 35o

C-IEAC Dr,elne ?57C.EIDIT DG9c-oBlx Short 160oG.[tIK Eras1118dffilfi-sfiUfi'5{1

C-BICB Short 36Oc-oDoH sho* 360C-GFV l{avaJoC-S RH Iar::Lor IIc-BFnS ceama F1f2tlG-Btfir' befirS T)7c-IIEv Jetetr€s!C-BI'Zf Slprt 360G-OB0H Short 360G-EICB short 360

G-SADE Ceesna FTJOLG-BIIU Jetra.ngerG-BrCV be1n8,7)lG-PT(E.I DC9CrPI(Bl,l DCaC-BLPV Short 360E'I-CFT SAAB SITO

c:ffixn-Drg*'-"

l8.c-EECE IIs.fl8C-BIPV Shoa"t, 360EI@ J.-G-OHID Short 360G-BSII Trln SquJ.rrelG-OAKI JetstreanG-E(Blr D6gG-Gf'ru IorgRanger(:.H(3t{ DC9C-XO{rc short 360C-CITI IongRangerc-Blff Short 33OmIrH Short 360

19.crDE(E Hs.?€G-BICB Sltrort 360

fliffi#t#G-OItrOI Eoelng T)?-ttOOC-Im Jc,tstrcanG.OIXP Ccsgta 310RG-OAKI JotstrealG-BIPV Strort 360&EEeiaUcD dsEISP-SAAE-E@G-OEI{D Short 360G-SEIC Shorb 350c-H(E{ Dca

20.G-EEXE rfr.7l{8G-JIIU IhrchessG-BI4[ Short 350G-DUC larr1or IIG-g(Bt DcgG-E{!,IE Ceasna 1J2G-8F[C Turbo Arrow III

0701o&5110I+L2?160118172LL6

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G-JI[l}{ KlnS l1r 20OG-Hmr If9G-NIIIC (lry Alr C9O

G-EDI DC9CFEIf, Eo€tu8 737G-EIDI DC9o}:L[G.&eesl.lra

G-BIZI Short 360CFOBIID StDrt 360ePKil DCaG-mIx Ee,atuS 7nC-oBt{L yerns 7)l-90G-OBI{D Short 360G-Brsr 8b* 35oc-Pre0r DcaOY-CEY Gttatlon n/adtrre'frni.silrao:nffi'tifirt':roG-rcIf, Eoet,v 7)7

Er-crA s AB 340c-iisr Short 360C-TBAC Short 360

oG,ttrD FaBllIacjHDt bc9'" ""c-sBAc short 360

oGlno kaalAtac-Bovr( ttllii6i irEr-cFC S^^3 :|1loNf 89jP"136- boiian"acjdllzilshort 160

24.G-BHE IEr.7q8CTBIGB S:ho* 360C-omH Shoru 35O

L3L4

L525c-Rtrlz 76Vq EtreflyG-JHAI Kl.ng A1r 2O0c-PK}[,r Dc9C-ItrU JetstreanG-BIZI Short 160c-omH short J60o?02

o81lop90Bt+?o93o1001L242

o7r9OBil6oa)z091809$L2))Lttza

z5.G-BE(E lrS.74Be-BLPv short 350

E:gF{ S4l-B }Pc-tsA}rBe125BO0B

L65018r{ot9O2L92t+

nla ntg 0832d2*r+7

ItrA lrDTfit-1812LWL9t6L9* 1947m*dN

@/BRADrtnD ltovBtrxfls ( conrd. )6.

OG.IIIO kaslllac-ffiffiit?oG.EIDH DL9c-lXI6 Ces8tls 310KG-EIZF Eoerqg 7)7G-D{DK SeoecaC-Eu)H I'CAC-CFRI Ionananger

effiw*#c-BIcB Srrort 35oEI-CFts Slm ir()ffc-xirx boqs 7nG-OPM flavaJoG.PIGI{ I'09

OO-I,IF tuaslllad!ffir!m,*'soG-flCBr{ DCazdll+L JetsLreanc-Pr(3r{ DcaG-f&n JekUreaoC-ODIID Short 360G-BL?I Sho* 350ET-GFB SAAB 3IO@-XIIO fusslrlaarmrffiit.ymG-H(!I{ Dog

G-OBIID Short 35Oc-PKil DCgc.TKm Coasoa l10n

r,m/Bn Drom t,0vm@nEl-col[td..)_^TD

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7.

L?.C-BEXE rls.TtrOG-BL,!Ar Short 350xxrg5 .retstrneanEI;$EA.E$&&PG-OBI{D Short 360G.Eu)H DC9G-BItr T6? HreflyC-I&n JetstreamG-Bt{ff SenecaC-OBIID Short 350G-BIAI Shoru 360G-GFffi Io.ngRanger

20.c-I&P JertobrelrCTOBII( Short 35Oc-tKE{ DcaCrEfi Boeln8 737oeEE,esallJe'zfizL N$ t25G-Brffi Short 330C-SBAC Short 35o

21.G-EU(E rS.7&Bffi'"c-m{AH DC9G-TTCPZ Ce86na 310nc-BtrAI{ DCgG.BI,IAH DCA

Zz.CanlJ[t WG-oBIx Short 360

C-EIDH DC9

ecEB$rI.jgoc-ErDH DC9

IEs - c-PKE{ DG9

H-eBr*]f*G-ODllP Cessna 310RG-oBI|D Shqrt 350C-BilH Short 33OeTBAc Short 360

ATA ATDd-zoz -0B11OBfi0921@5?Lzat4')tll+tri1601L6fi1818LB351915L92220fi2724214?

o?o708010a?1001L212LW31535LTLL18191918202?zLL5d.56

o?20o8t90831L0LS t?o9Lz)BLU+5L67|.Lrco t7L7L8)319oZ LU+?1918m5L2Ltnx53

ATA ATDd_Ztz_oB1509L40947

Drv LL5)L)58Ltgz152)L6%lBOB7Wts)5191820182ttB2127

C-oBllD short 360C-BIPV Shod l5O

c-oBII( Short 360c-PKBlt DC9

c-oBII( short 360c-AvCE Cesgna tr172Hc-oBlr( Short 35o

C-IEAC Dr,elne ?57C.EIDIT DG9c-oBlx Short 160oG.[tIK Eras1118dffilfi-sfiUfi'5{1

C-BICB Short 36Oc-oDoH sho* 360C-GFV l{avaJoC-S RH Iar::Lor IIc-BFnS ceama F1f2tlG-Btfir' befirS T)7c-IIEv Jetetr€s!C-BI'Zf Slprt 360G-OB0H Short 360G-EICB short 360

G-SADE Ceesna FTJOLG-BIIU Jetra.ngerG-BrCV be1n8,7)lG-PT(E.I DC9CrPI(Bl,l DCaC-BLPV Short 360E'I-CFT SAAB SITO

c:ffixn-Drg*'-"

l8.c-EECE IIs.fl8C-BIPV Shoa"t, 360EI@ J.-G-OHID Short 360G-BSII Trln SquJ.rrelG-OAKI JetstreanG-E(Blr D6gG-Gf'ru IorgRanger(:.H(3t{ DC9C-XO{rc short 360C-CITI IongRangerc-Blff Short 33OmIrH Short 360

19.crDE(E Hs.?€G-BICB Sltrort 360

fliffi#t#G-OItrOI Eoelng T)?-ttOOC-Im Jc,tstrcanG.OIXP Ccsgta 310RG-OAKI JotstrealG-BIPV Strort 360&EEeiaUcD dsEISP-SAAE-E@G-OEI{D Short 360G-SEIC Shorb 350c-H(E{ Dca

20.G-EEXE rfr.7l{8G-JIIU IhrchessG-BI4[ Short 350G-DUC larr1or IIG-g(Bt DcgG-E{!,IE Ceasna 1J2G-8F[C Turbo Arrow III

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G-JI[l}{ KlnS l1r 20OG-Hmr If9G-NIIIC (lry Alr C9O

G-EDI DC9CFEIf, Eo€tu8 737G-EIDI DC9o}:L[G.&eesl.lra

G-BIZI Short 360CFOBIID StDrt 360ePKil DCaG-mIx Ee,atuS 7nC-oBt{L yerns 7)l-90G-OBI{D Short 360G-Brsr 8b* 35oc-Pre0r DcaOY-CEY Gttatlon n/adtrre'frni.silrao:nffi'tifirt':roG-rcIf, Eoet,v 7)7

Er-crA s AB 340c-iisr Short 360C-TBAC Short 360

oG,ttrD FaBllIacjHDt bc9'" ""c-sBAc short 360

oGlno kaalAtac-Bovr( ttllii6i irEr-cFC S^^3 :|1loNf 89jP"136- boiian"acjdllzilshort 160

24.G-BHE IEr.7q8CTBIGB S:ho* 360C-omH Shoru 35O

L3L4

L525c-Rtrlz 76Vq EtreflyG-JHAI Kl.ng A1r 2O0c-PK}[,r Dc9C-ItrU JetstreanG-BIZI Short 160c-omH short J60o?02

o81lop90Bt+?o93o1001L242

o7r9OBil6oa)z091809$L2))Lttza

z5.G-BE(E lrS.74Be-BLPv short 350

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Lm:nqlnADFqnD uovEHn^rls (contd.)B.

G-BLKY Bamn7fi923 IynxC-EIDH DG9c-sl(IJ Cessre 414G-ItrV Jertstlea,nc-BIaI Sho* 360crEle DCg0SIIII haerXaEflzlrTffi&1azCFOIAH Short 36OCFTBAC Sho* 360

q;"clg s4l! 3lr0G-BI.ZI Shod 35OCFECP Cesau 152G-Vlt U TB-10 TohaoCFEZF }n,etry 7)?G-PIGD DCgG-oBOII Short 35Oak9-r-,r- &esllleC-IACI( Short 360G-BIZI Shoat 360G-EUE DCgG-l,tARn Cogsxa 4e1C

e5.Ek9.EE-St433CI.G-Eu)H DCac-BLUr shor+ :60C-TICPZ Cessna 31OnfO23 I1rnxc-BlrAI{ DcaCFomH Short 350.CrBllIfi Short 360EI-CFC Sr B irroffiniffiif-j6oG-HGD DC9

26.G-BEG IIi.Z4eC-8eofi Shorr j60c-OmH Short ffiG-HGD DCAC-BO[}I Uarrlor IIC-BOV!( Iar:elor IIG-H(E) DCaC-I&U Jetstrea.rc-Blzr sho* 360CFPI(SD DCgEI-CFC SrAa illoGdffilff6ft-350G-EZF betrg n?G-TBAC Strrt 360

?.G-BE(E lts.ZtoC-Itrf Joktrean

ffiffiffiff,,C-XICP Cessna 152C-ICYII Ces$a nt50cG-ErXri D6gc-omll Shoru 360c-Em D6g

G-EllJI Itca

28.C-EEp rri.ZtrO&s4.zuE3roc-omH Short 36OG-BI{AH DCgCFIK% Cessrra 3tonlZffi Sea I(1ISc-orcH Short 35oC-EZF Eo€tus 23?

29.c-mry DCaG.EDI DCAEI-CFts Srl3 3rloG-EIDI Dca

ATA ATD6'ts4 -09291002t)331414L5241Bo1lB5?L9L327022L39

0?o1o758otr2094jLOaB LLO6LLI?L2t16L4$L6ltttt@5t9L7m54?l.27?l43

ATA ATD6go-t+ -09471310t74zLtl+?1642L8P,B19og2O2521072ltl8o/$o8t9OB3Bq952lofi 1L26tzz6Lttoz19n18L0L915L954205827)42312

9.raffi/BRAnFoRD t{ovmmfls ( contd. )

rnou (& ro)t.[109P/Duhun Blrmlngha-rul ].ou,r"VBlndngtra.nr 4.flccl/Glaegor, r-cwl/Uan, ry\\/Auesburs. r-CWv/fUf Ie Bourgets s.F-cWw/te Havre, lBO2VCoIeDan, Ifi50o/Flrutlrgloy,Itl6ldreterboro, I9OOSU/F'&T l{atftelds 6.Hp-vcVnfesln Hllf, to Barcelonel 9.HE4IU/Southa.npton. F-GrYD/FEf Ic Bou:get; 10.xx4?9/cu1dmse, Zd+)9/lae.orr.Solent, II/$p/Irynehanl tl.xXtS/FLnnlnsleyl 12.fImty'Hunchen, F-GFGU/I€ Bourget, SE DDI/T€4€Ihof'sE-DEy/Terpelhott L).zzl9?/ Elnnln8leyl L4.fi.,72o4o*,a$bry'uBalrrelnl 16.18-tG"/tlte6-Irgano; 1?.yJtgs/Fil Rlnnlngley, HpvGP/Ileanot l9.Zd+4l/A:ldrosel l9.OY-SvVrm HalFburs, oY-CEu/Fs[ ]Iarnburgl 20.2fi27/slansted-ry's-Northoltl 24.ttl8lJP/Toueeus Ie Noble;25.ZCg2)/ Fut DtsMorth ( trrce) 7 28.x z59o/ F\n\Ei ey, Ng))3s/ FE t Jora€y.OVERSHOOIS

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It's gettlng torard.s ttrat t}ae of yea.r when the volume of vlsltors dmps off due tothe weather, there are not rnany forelgaers to report thJ.a nonth tut therc ls one flrstvlstt of country xhlch ts a 6ern. Startlng on the 1st re had the tlen Etglard A1r Trare-port Gulfstream 1 N1O9P nhlch has been travelllng arourd the cormtry rrlth the xodcgroup I'teta11ca. Ustula ellsle;n "Alr1lnk 11" on the 3rd rras Cltatlon II OD-F? . frotrt€nchnen uslrg caL16lgns on the 4th rere KlnA Alr E90 fLCmJ as "Che-llalr 2d-22ard K1lna Alr A10O F'-GEV as "ASO 752-7513 nlght stopplne the sare dtt raa the At1aeAlr Senrlce Cessna I&t LIccI. Another Ktul8 A1r A100 xae F4HIIV as 'l{oraadle my onthe Jths the ea:ne day saw Gulfstream 28 N16NI( and Ft"lcon 90O l90OS, both nlgkt stopplng.Swlss fl:rn Jet Avlatlon xere to be seen three tlrnes th!'s nonth, flrgt on the 6th rlthCltatlon II HFvcn Caulng "Jetavlatlon 202" ard then on the 16th ad. 17th r.lth C5,tat-lon II HFIIGP r'lllng "Jetav1atlon 101'. Klng Al.r 2O0 HFGIU vlslt€al on thc 9th a.rdnlght stopptng on the eame itay ras Cltatton II FLGJYD of Darte SARL as'Ibrta 28J6'.The 12th nas qulte busJ' rlth the Gernra^n AerosLar D-IffiH operatln6 on Its ro8lstratlonHhllst three other aLrc.ra^f0 usd callslgns, GuJ.fstream 1 fLCfCU naa 'Pmvuce 104ardnlght stopp€A uxrtll th€ lllthg Citatlon II SE-DDY rras "Intelralr 303' a.nil Cltatlon SF-DEIras "Inte::aLr 20U. star of the nonth tras the South Korea.n Challogcr 6Ol fn7202 ot ttreSaarg YonA Glor4r nhJ.ctr a^rrtved on the lllth fron Ottera a.rd left for htrret-n on the 16+-:.en mute to Seoul. THo Dore nlght stoppers on the l|th rere CLtatton O!-SVL ad. Clta{lon OY-CBII ntr5'ctr nas uetl6 callsign "Fb.lcka1r 319"1nbouxt ard ':P0" outtousd. Irgt troof the nonth rrere both lnerlcanl on the 24th rras Boech A36 Boaense f1835P ud @ th€28th nas the Ctrerokee A:rror t{Blf3S whlc}r nlght stopped ard. rae frol erd to Jeraey rhere1t nay be beeed. Thele rere BoDe ner Brdtlsh reglaLr:atlons Iogged th!.a nonth, CrOu(I onthe 18th ras a Jetstreara ard belongs to Alr Kl1roe. On the 26th G-CilL ras a Ceserra 414AChancellor 8rd c-VllIU ras a TB-10 Toba8o (ex C-BfOK). The tB-20 MO6U xhlctr arrl.ved onthe 23rd of last nonth has energed from Yor{<shlre r.ight AJ.ro:aft'a lranga.r relnlrrted asC-JURE ard on the 21st It ras alr testedl lt ls now based here rlth a lfu J.Ure.

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rnou (& ro)t.[109P/Duhun Blrmlngha-rul ].ou,r"VBlndngtra.nr 4.flccl/Glaegor, r-cwl/Uan, ry\\/Auesburs. r-CWv/fUf Ie Bourgets s.F-cWw/te Havre, lBO2VCoIeDan, Ifi50o/Flrutlrgloy,Itl6ldreterboro, I9OOSU/F'&T l{atftelds 6.Hp-vcVnfesln Hllf, to Barcelonel 9.HE4IU/Southa.npton. F-GrYD/FEf Ic Bou:get; 10.xx4?9/cu1dmse, Zd+)9/lae.orr.Solent, II/$p/Irynehanl tl.xXtS/FLnnlnsleyl 12.fImty'Hunchen, F-GFGU/I€ Bourget, SE DDI/T€4€Ihof'sE-DEy/Terpelhott L).zzl9?/ Elnnln8leyl L4.fi.,72o4o*,a$bry'uBalrrelnl 16.18-tG"/tlte6-Irgano; 1?.yJtgs/Fil Rlnnlngley, HpvGP/Ileanot l9.Zd+4l/A:ldrosel l9.OY-SvVrm HalFburs, oY-CEu/Fs[ ]Iarnburgl 20.2fi27/slansted-ry's-Northoltl 24.ttl8lJP/Toueeus Ie Noble;25.ZCg2)/ Fut DtsMorth ( trrce) 7 28.x z59o/ F\n\Ei ey, Ng))3s/ FE t Jora€y.OVERSHOOIS

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have both returned from nalntenanee. llooney M.20J C-FT,YA <Ieparteil to Ganston 21.11 fornalntgnalge and. has yet to return. ylsitors:- 22.10 c-AyAT PA-ZB f&+, Irdiran. 31.10 C-B,CA PA-28 f&t sdtsbourne. 5.11 G-Bsoo 1Z2F f-se-;fhlng t Gten onlston. 8.11-Fp.ln

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It's gettlng torard.s ttrat t}ae of yea.r when the volume of vlsltors dmps off due tothe weather, there are not rnany forelgaers to report thJ.a nonth tut therc ls one flrstvlstt of country xhlch ts a 6ern. Startlng on the 1st re had the tlen Etglard A1r Trare-port Gulfstream 1 N1O9P nhlch has been travelllng arourd the cormtry rrlth the xodcgroup I'teta11ca. Ustula ellsle;n "Alr1lnk 11" on the 3rd rras Cltatlon II OD-F? . frotrt€nchnen uslrg caL16lgns on the 4th rere KlnA Alr E90 fLCmJ as "Che-llalr 2d-22ard K1lna Alr A10O F'-GEV as "ASO 752-7513 nlght stopplne the sare dtt raa the At1aeAlr Senrlce Cessna I&t LIccI. Another Ktul8 A1r A100 xae F4HIIV as 'l{oraadle my onthe Jths the ea:ne day saw Gulfstream 28 N16NI( and Ft"lcon 90O l90OS, both nlgkt stopplng.Swlss fl:rn Jet Avlatlon xere to be seen three tlrnes th!'s nonth, flrgt on the 6th rlthCltatlon II HFvcn Caulng "Jetavlatlon 202" ard then on the 16th ad. 17th r.lth C5,tat-lon II HFIIGP r'lllng "Jetav1atlon 101'. Klng Al.r 2O0 HFGIU vlslt€al on thc 9th a.rdnlght stopptng on the eame itay ras Cltatton II FLGJYD of Darte SARL as'Ibrta 28J6'.The 12th nas qulte busJ' rlth the Gernra^n AerosLar D-IffiH operatln6 on Its ro8lstratlonHhllst three other aLrc.ra^f0 usd callslgns, GuJ.fstream 1 fLCfCU naa 'Pmvuce 104ardnlght stopp€A uxrtll th€ lllthg Citatlon II SE-DDY rras "Intelralr 303' a.nil Cltatlon SF-DEIras "Inte::aLr 20U. star of the nonth tras the South Korea.n Challogcr 6Ol fn7202 ot ttreSaarg YonA Glor4r nhJ.ctr a^rrtved on the lllth fron Ottera a.rd left for htrret-n on the 16+-:.en mute to Seoul. THo Dore nlght stoppers on the l|th rere CLtatton O!-SVL ad. Clta{lon OY-CBII ntr5'ctr nas uetl6 callsign "Fb.lcka1r 319"1nbouxt ard ':P0" outtousd. Irgt troof the nonth rrere both lnerlcanl on the 24th rras Boech A36 Boaense f1835P ud @ th€28th nas the Ctrerokee A:rror t{Blf3S whlc}r nlght stopped ard. rae frol erd to Jeraey rhere1t nay be beeed. Thele rere BoDe ner Brdtlsh reglaLr:atlons Iogged th!.a nonth, CrOu(I onthe 18th ras a Jetstreara ard belongs to Alr Kl1roe. On the 26th G-CilL ras a Ceserra 414AChancellor 8rd c-VllIU ras a TB-10 Toba8o (ex C-BfOK). The tB-20 MO6U xhlctr arrl.ved onthe 23rd of last nonth has energed from Yor{<shlre r.ight AJ.ro:aft'a lranga.r relnlrrted asC-JURE ard on the 21st It ras alr testedl lt ls now based here rlth a lfu J.Ure.

IJNIEI HILL As of 2.12 the rreck of PA-34 G-A.ZTO xas gtl1l presert ard has bean Jolnedty the r:cedr of FA.151X C-AXUI' nhlch care to grlef durlng a forced 1ardfuA nar here onIHday 13.11, the alrcraft Is consldered a rrite-off. F.l5Ot't c-llULL a.rd Orevrrmn C-WUI

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11.lusrmr,ra (con+a. )Slngapore ras verJr qulet, however a qulck ralJ< rourd thls mgnlflcent terilnat revealedpX-Cyi a canda W)i, ard gl|-l{trQ an F2Zof ,Pela.ngl Alr. alorg rlth a nurter of SIA aln-crafL. Dgrlrg the flleht fron Slngapore I was lud<lr enough to be able to aperd a coupleof hours on the Etlghtdeck. @.ntas acLlvely encourage people to eee rhat happens upfront, somethlne that ls very Lare these days. It ras lnterastlng to ftntl that the Cap-taln had t:ransferred fron Australlan Alrbuses because he doesn't llke the 'Ety by YIre'and prefered the nore conventlonal contr,ols. I rras able to stqy on the ELlgtrtiled< evenfor the lanttlng xhlch I fowrd a nost nenorable exped.ence, partl@lar\y aa the r.eatherrtas poor rlth low c.Iord and heav;r troplcal raln.A popular excurslon fml Calrns, apart fron the Great Barrr.er Reef rhlctt le anotherstory, le to Kura^nda by traln. Anongst the narket stal-Le of thi.e normtaln toxn ls aDC-lll Yes, a wrecked DC-3 ln the niild.le of a nar*et. The r1rge are atldtlng out ofthe grounil at varlous angles ard. the broken f\rselage ls a.Inost Y?rtlcal nlth the nosebroken off at rlght angles. A plaque states that lt ls a C-47 EglEter€d VILAEO rlthAna tn 1916, befo:ce beconlng Ana's flrst alrsrafb ln that year. It stqyed rlth thenrmtl1 1965 nhen lt ras sold to East-lJest who used lt untll t9?6. tf, taa then EoId toa coirparJ/ that rent brnoke rhlLst on 1ts delIvery fl,lght, before belrg us€d ln the f1h.Sky Pkates' (needless to say about a plane c:ash). As the rlngs carry ltH-OPB I ronderlf thls la entirely conect or rhether It ls tro alrlerafb. It'e arrprtalng rhat youfind. when you go Bhopplng. IJnforttrnate\, tlnre dtd not al1or'a tz{.p to Cairne Alrlnrttrrt re dld pass lt a cor4fle of tlnes before flylng onnards to AALce SprltAE. The GeneralAvlatlon Teznlnal Ie on the opposlte slrle to the ttaln Tenlnal ard sco€d to oontaln arrast ar=ay of lnterestlng airc:aft ln great supply tnchding a or4[c of Ia]erders of'Cape York ALr Serrrlces' and a cot4rle of rmldentlfted DC-3'8. Ortslde the llaln Temlnalls yet another DC-J perched on e pllnth and palnted ln the colou:rs of Euctt PtLots Assoo.latlon horever l-t tloes not seem to have a reglstlatlon. (ht atrcraf,t todqy rae a BAeLrt6.2f/Ovl!.lilJ? of Augtr:allan Rqlonal Alrll-nes and operated by ltetlonal JcU. It rrae

1n^r*etl alongsfule a Tnln Otter VII-TGC also of AustraUan Pq!.oml.lllce Spr:ln6e le only a small tom but ls totally on r,lrqtfL ec lt ls Bofar fmn anywhere e1se. The Terolnal BuUillng 1s brard nerr, In fect lt had onlSr beenopen a fer nonths. Ie parftecl alongslde an Ansett F28 VII-F!O{. Alao notcd rcra V}|-B{I,vlFTFU, Ces6na lr02's .Chartalr' Wtr-llII Cessna q02 mA ffi lf,JAAn A1r, Y'lLHlrSl Shortello 'Sqyport', a,rd a couple of Royal Elylng Doctor Servlce Klng tlrs. hot A:!.ceSpr1rge re tlavelled for sone slx hours \r coach to lgrers Rodr. After a nlghts stay Iu;Ie the ateep cltnb r4r thl.s anazlrg rodr tefore takln6 a forty rLnute fllght roud ltard the nearby Olges ln a Cessna 206, yrl-AI{S. Fortrmately I nna6d to gct the aeatnert to the pllot, Just as reJll as 1t ras a young la{yl xhlch gavo cvsn tcrttar vlens.The fllght bad< to Sydney fmn 'The lt.lce' rras by Australlan Alrllnea lr,clneTlT-it6VII-TAG. As re arr{.ved at nlght I could on].y see a fer Aneett ard Augtrallen 7)?a atnlZls, brt on flna.l appmach re d1d get the nost fantastlc r4en of thc floodtlt ltrarbourM.dge ard Qlera House. Tro nore frantlc d.ays of slghtseeirg follond befora ne udeour xaJr bd< to l(lrl8sford-Snlth Alrport ard our rraltln8 7r+7-rl00 v'tLOJf rhlctt ras Justa fery Donths old.. Sydney has two sepa:rate termlnals, the Internatlonal one contalns a.11the usual nlx of long bauJ. jets that you canr see at nost mJor cltlee in the rorld. TheDonestlc Te:ofna1 ls acmss the other slde of the Alrport ard as I bad no 'BIna' Icould only 6at a glance at the na^n5r lnterestlng donestlc Dachlnes that keyt colLrg lnard out. Our ftlght badc to Iordon took us vla Bangkok, rhere re lanileil at 23O0 hours.The alrlrcrt tras heavlng as thls is a msh hour tlne. tle parked b5r a cor4le of ?hal/4fs' hrL nost alrcraft couIl hardly be seen under the not veqr trlght alrport fl.ood -Ughts. A change of crew and a qulck rafk arourd the Termlnal a.rd re rere on our nayagatn. The mute fmm Bangkok took us NorLtrEast over Rangoon, Calcutta, New llelhl, thenwe turned rlght over I(abul arrd the Aral Sea to Aktyublnsl( ln Russla rhere re turned leftard muted Sa:ratov, Vl1nius, Copenhagen, Arnsterdam ard flnally lordon.

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Ilor thoso. of you xho read ry r-qorU on uy vlslt to Stngapole ard t{a1a1rsla a fer monthsago r lenitloned that r rould short\r be rasltlna Au8traua. r had ron the trtp 1n aTrevrl Trade Co4retltlon at a sentni,r at Hrarr,ogate. I nceived i.,U art.f* a couple oftto*s before d'ep^rtr..e yd th" ltlnerary looked v.r:/ tough rlth eve4r Diaute taken uptrlt'h 8|8ffi'B€€tng e:ccurslons, neetlngs "ira

ortr"f"f funcblons suctr as dlnners etc.r Jouracyed d,oran to Heattrrow ty traln fmu rna^reEbomugh then ..rrshi tt " tube fromloqga &oea. I had been toLt to report to the (Fntas ci"o. r" aed at 10o0 hours nhereI mul<l raot and be lntroduced to for fell.or trivouers. the par*i-coa"rsted of tentrrvcl agelrta fton arr_over the couitry plus our hosts froD 6tL-""a Australlan pacl-tl-c Toura, the lrrterna-l coach tourtng ;;IIt".v. tfinn dredc l-n re rere lnforred that thelltold fllght ra^s a couple of hou:rs late.aui to-an unsoeaurea iii"r

"top ln Ansterdae80 rc rettr€d to the very peaceful Qp,ntas Buslness claas Lrrl8; i;; refreshnents and.to relax, before the tong hreht. vri-oro a uea 7tt7_$B;E 6iiv or M.sbane, everrttDuy ufted off flon Heathr,os two hours late ai i30o ;;;f"rJil t*.rrr" hopr non-stop-fltghtto Bal6kok. Qar,tas operate rhat they -rr "11r"1ror,. "r, i#fi6ht conputer nap

*1*.f. +8p181'€d on the v!.deo nonltors 116 6]=prays *""t 11t f#omat:.on about therrr€m auch as-alrspeed, altlttde' outslde teryereture a.rd the mute. Our mute todaynaa- rrla-&rrsoe1s, Ftankfi,rrtr- vreru', Be\rade, sof1a, rstanbul, lr*ro, Tehm,n, NewIbllrl, Dacca and then pq*$: o1 rinatnt at nangkok-rt ras ntce io "". nar6r B,rttlshbullt.alrcraft on dlsplay. outside the TLi hangars rere shorts 3io,-t6"li BA;-iG.tlnf-ortuntely, r dldn't have ti:ue for argr spottlng as our o"ora--*r-""t1on had beentulav{t araltlng our arrlrar. Ie quiocry trinsferred to vrerj-a B;rrs ,4, fo; ;;'"oHBrd fLfght to Slrgapore arxl Cairns

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11.lusrmr,ra (con+a. )Slngapore ras verJr qulet, however a qulck ralJ< rourd thls mgnlflcent terilnat revealedpX-Cyi a canda W)i, ard gl|-l{trQ an F2Zof ,Pela.ngl Alr. alorg rlth a nurter of SIA aln-crafL. Dgrlrg the flleht fron Slngapore I was lud<lr enough to be able to aperd a coupleof hours on the Etlghtdeck. @.ntas acLlvely encourage people to eee rhat happens upfront, somethlne that ls very Lare these days. It ras lnterastlng to ftntl that the Cap-taln had t:ransferred fron Australlan Alrbuses because he doesn't llke the 'Ety by YIre'and prefered the nore conventlonal contr,ols. I rras able to stqy on the ELlgtrtiled< evenfor the lanttlng xhlch I fowrd a nost nenorable exped.ence, partl@lar\y aa the r.eatherrtas poor rlth low c.Iord and heav;r troplcal raln.A popular excurslon fml Calrns, apart fron the Great Barrr.er Reef rhlctt le anotherstory, le to Kura^nda by traln. Anongst the narket stal-Le of thi.e normtaln toxn ls aDC-lll Yes, a wrecked DC-3 ln the niild.le of a nar*et. The r1rge are atldtlng out ofthe grounil at varlous angles ard. the broken f\rselage ls a.Inost Y?rtlcal nlth the nosebroken off at rlght angles. A plaque states that lt ls a C-47 EglEter€d VILAEO rlthAna tn 1916, befo:ce beconlng Ana's flrst alrsrafb ln that year. It stqyed rlth thenrmtl1 1965 nhen lt ras sold to East-lJest who used lt untll t9?6. tf, taa then EoId toa coirparJ/ that rent brnoke rhlLst on 1ts delIvery fl,lght, before belrg us€d ln the f1h.Sky Pkates' (needless to say about a plane c:ash). As the rlngs carry ltH-OPB I ronderlf thls la entirely conect or rhether It ls tro alrlerafb. It'e arrprtalng rhat youfind. when you go Bhopplng. IJnforttrnate\, tlnre dtd not al1or'a tz{.p to Cairne Alrlnrttrrt re dld pass lt a cor4fle of tlnes before flylng onnards to AALce SprltAE. The GeneralAvlatlon Teznlnal Ie on the opposlte slrle to the ttaln Tenlnal ard sco€d to oontaln arrast ar=ay of lnterestlng airc:aft ln great supply tnchding a or4[c of Ia]erders of'Cape York ALr Serrrlces' and a cot4rle of rmldentlfted DC-3'8. Ortslde the llaln Temlnalls yet another DC-J perched on e pllnth and palnted ln the colou:rs of Euctt PtLots Assoo.latlon horever l-t tloes not seem to have a reglstlatlon. (ht atrcraf,t todqy rae a BAeLrt6.2f/Ovl!.lilJ? of Augtr:allan Rqlonal Alrll-nes and operated by ltetlonal JcU. It rrae

1n^r*etl alongsfule a Tnln Otter VII-TGC also of AustraUan Pq!.oml.lllce Spr:ln6e le only a small tom but ls totally on r,lrqtfL ec lt ls Bofar fmn anywhere e1se. The Terolnal BuUillng 1s brard nerr, In fect lt had onlSr beenopen a fer nonths. Ie parftecl alongslde an Ansett F28 VII-F!O{. Alao notcd rcra V}|-B{I,vlFTFU, Ces6na lr02's .Chartalr' Wtr-llII Cessna q02 mA ffi lf,JAAn A1r, Y'lLHlrSl Shortello 'Sqyport', a,rd a couple of Royal Elylng Doctor Servlce Klng tlrs. hot A:!.ceSpr1rge re tlavelled for sone slx hours \r coach to lgrers Rodr. After a nlghts stay Iu;Ie the ateep cltnb r4r thl.s anazlrg rodr tefore takln6 a forty rLnute fllght roud ltard the nearby Olges ln a Cessna 206, yrl-AI{S. Fortrmately I nna6d to gct the aeatnert to the pllot, Just as reJll as 1t ras a young la{yl xhlch gavo cvsn tcrttar vlens.The fllght bad< to Sydney fmn 'The lt.lce' rras by Australlan Alrllnea lr,clneTlT-it6VII-TAG. As re arr{.ved at nlght I could on].y see a fer Aneett ard Augtrallen 7)?a atnlZls, brt on flna.l appmach re d1d get the nost fantastlc r4en of thc floodtlt ltrarbourM.dge ard Qlera House. Tro nore frantlc d.ays of slghtseeirg follond befora ne udeour xaJr bd< to l(lrl8sford-Snlth Alrport ard our rraltln8 7r+7-rl00 v'tLOJf rhlctt ras Justa fery Donths old.. Sydney has two sepa:rate termlnals, the Internatlonal one contalns a.11the usual nlx of long bauJ. jets that you canr see at nost mJor cltlee in the rorld. TheDonestlc Te:ofna1 ls acmss the other slde of the Alrport ard as I bad no 'BIna' Icould only 6at a glance at the na^n5r lnterestlng donestlc Dachlnes that keyt colLrg lnard out. Our ftlght badc to Iordon took us vla Bangkok, rhere re lanileil at 23O0 hours.The alrlrcrt tras heavlng as thls is a msh hour tlne. tle parked b5r a cor4le of ?hal/4fs' hrL nost alrcraft couIl hardly be seen under the not veqr trlght alrport fl.ood -Ughts. A change of crew and a qulck rafk arourd the Termlnal a.rd re rere on our nayagatn. The mute fmm Bangkok took us NorLtrEast over Rangoon, Calcutta, New llelhl, thenwe turned rlght over I(abul arrd the Aral Sea to Aktyublnsl( ln Russla rhere re turned leftard muted Sa:ratov, Vl1nius, Copenhagen, Arnsterdam ard flnally lordon.

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Ilor thoso. of you xho read ry r-qorU on uy vlslt to Stngapole ard t{a1a1rsla a fer monthsago r lenitloned that r rould short\r be rasltlna Au8traua. r had ron the trtp 1n aTrevrl Trade Co4retltlon at a sentni,r at Hrarr,ogate. I nceived i.,U art.f* a couple oftto*s before d'ep^rtr..e yd th" ltlnerary looked v.r:/ tough rlth eve4r Diaute taken uptrlt'h 8|8ffi'B€€tng e:ccurslons, neetlngs "ira

ortr"f"f funcblons suctr as dlnners etc.r Jouracyed d,oran to Heattrrow ty traln fmu rna^reEbomugh then ..rrshi tt " tube fromloqga &oea. I had been toLt to report to the (Fntas ci"o. r" aed at 10o0 hours nhereI mul<l raot and be lntroduced to for fell.or trivouers. the par*i-coa"rsted of tentrrvcl agelrta fton arr_over the couitry plus our hosts froD 6tL-""a Australlan pacl-tl-c Toura, the lrrterna-l coach tourtng ;;IIt".v. tfinn dredc l-n re rere lnforred that thelltold fllght ra^s a couple of hou:rs late.aui to-an unsoeaurea iii"r

"top ln Ansterdae80 rc rettr€d to the very peaceful Qp,ntas Buslness claas Lrrl8; i;; refreshnents and.to relax, before the tong hreht. vri-oro a uea 7tt7_$B;E 6iiv or M.sbane, everrttDuy ufted off flon Heathr,os two hours late ai i30o ;;;f"rJil t*.rrr" hopr non-stop-fltghtto Bal6kok. Qar,tas operate rhat they -rr "11r"1ror,. "r, i#fi6ht conputer nap

*1*.f. +8p181'€d on the v!.deo nonltors 116 6]=prays *""t 11t f#omat:.on about therrr€m auch as-alrspeed, altlttde' outslde teryereture a.rd the mute. Our mute todaynaa- rrla-&rrsoe1s, Ftankfi,rrtr- vreru', Be\rade, sof1a, rstanbul, lr*ro, Tehm,n, NewIbllrl, Dacca and then pq*$: o1 rinatnt at nangkok-rt ras ntce io "". nar6r B,rttlshbullt.alrcraft on dlsplay. outside the TLi hangars rere shorts 3io,-t6"li BA;-iG.tlnf-ortuntely, r dldn't have ti:ue for argr spottlng as our o"ora--*r-""t1on had beentulav{t araltlng our arrlrar. Ie quiocry trinsferred to vrerj-a B;rrs ,4, fo; ;;'"oHBrd fLfght to Slrgapore arxl Cairns

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L2.eust'neue (conta.)As ne took a nore Northerly route thls nade us sltghtly late arrlvlng aL Ol)O, thlrty -flve nlnutes late. Agaln I $as ab:le to vlslt the Elleht Deck and lt was lnterestlng toconpare lt wlth Lhre ?6?. I had hoped to stay up therr: for the landlng but the crew d*clded to nal<e a f\ll.Iy autonatlc 'hands off' lardlrg as a tr:alning exercise, so I nasunahle to stay. I stt11 flrd 1t lncredlbl.e that a fully laden 7\? can Land totally re-Ilant on lnstnrnents, needless to say the approach a^rd landlng nere absolutely perfecL.Another lnterestln6 feature of Qantas is ttat they alxays carry an exLra cockpit clexnember just 1n case anything goes Frong. They ofYer a superb serrlce and the ln fllghtroute lnfonaatlon systen certalil-y rnakes the long fllght rnuch more lnterestln6 ard thefact that they encourage arq/ passenger onto the Eltght Ded< ls certalnly good to see.

Ian Cratton.

.}IAIJAII OCTOBEN 1992

.lor a nuober of years I've been promislng to look r4r an old IH.erd ln Harall, brrt withono thlng ard another I've never mana6ed lt. Thls year due to a ner scherne launched byUnlted Alrllnea 1n corfulctlon with the U.K.TraveI Trade. lt began to J.ook J.l}e a real-lty rlth seats avallahle at {185 who could say nor Boohlngs can on\r be nade rrlthln tworedce of travel so I allocated three ueeks off rorlc ln October ln the hope that I coullget a seat. I ude ny ray to Heathrow Tern3.nal I on Tueeday l3th October ard arrivedthree hours befone departure 1n order that I could ptd( up Nr tldrets ard nake an earlychec*-In ln the hope of getttng a good seat. At flrst the ctredr-ln cler* offered ne a,saat at the back rlght ln the nlddle but then notlclng I $a"s on a 'q)ecl,al' tlc*etranag€d to allocate !e seat l\C rtrfcn ls an alsle seat Jusft, betrlrd the r1ng, hrt \r anoDerBelrcy erlt xhlch ueans loads of leg roon. ThIs f du\y acceptedl she also advlsedthat tho fllgE rras ln fact overbooked and. offered re 20O dollars Unlted Travel credltlf I srap@ fllghts ard tnstead t:cavelIed vla faatrlrr6lon. Thls rrouJ.d have neart arriv-fr6 Ur San trlanclsco flve hours later ard as tlue uas at a pr€dun I ttecilllred.After clearlrg Securlty and Passport fomaliti.es f ploeeded to the Gra,nnery CoffeeShop for an early lunclr. The food here ls occellent and very reasonably prlced for anIntertatlonal Alrport. The days of the fouL ta"stlng rlety e:qpenslve alrport sa^ndrlch arecertatnly a tMng of the past here. I hlgh\r recorued lt. As atrcraft vlewlng 1s rest^rlc,tod ftil Ternlaal 3 - only a ferl bays can be sest - I engaged ln an hour or so ofpeople eFtttng. At a place llke Heathror rlth fllgtrts learrlng to Tehra.n, Bonbagr,Tolgro, Jeld.h ard lost of .Aner{.ca, thls ls a^n ertreraly lnterestlng psttne.Approxllate\y 45 ntnutes before delnrture I uade ry r.ay vla the rrarr.ous corrldors to.rarda C8ts 15 rtrere ay fJ.l6ht ras board.tng. Along ttre rr4y I paae€al SQ19 bourd forSlugapore, ard VI{-OID of Qantas operatlrg to Bangkoh and. gldney. Boadturg started at1330 8nd hrt for a fer late passengels push ba& youLd have heen on echedule af 1355Horonor r.e rerta 1J Unutes Iate. Eglnes sta:ded re ta:ded at 1415 ard nade an luedl-ets llne r4r o4 the Runray and Her€ alrbounzre W 1l+25. Ihllst ta:rytng re passed JY-BEIAJ10 (Kanza VU), PII-OIL (vlasa)and E-IAB ?4?SP (fran ur). Th€ alrcrafb allocated forthe fllgtrt ras f161uf a ?4?-Z)BB nhlch started ].lfe as VE-EBtt dth qantas. The fl1ehtraa ulleviantfill, taslca-lIy because the Etight Ded< cler gave us no tforilatlon xhatso-ev€! tega^ldlng our helght, ftlght path or anythlng a^nd. 4r request for a v1slt to theELlSht Ded< rrcelved a very flrm no. So lt rras a case of slt badr, erlioy the fll.r,food ard a fer beers. l.lpon arrLval at San FYancil.sco at 1705 local tlne, afber a flightof t0 houre 50 nlnutes re taJded to our Bay. As usual on 6nted.ng the U.S. Custors ardThrgratlon fonalltles took an aget over an hour a^rd a half before I fourd the Coachfor the dorntorn area and eventually ny hotel for a couple of nlghts.The next day I deci.ded to enbadr on a Clty Tour ard B4r fru1se urder the Golden GateBrtdge ard rourd Alcat:raz Islard. Elylng over dur.lng thls tlne rras an A1rshl"p, The Br:d-t elser BIIp, as lt ls knonn. It ras ln the area for an Alrehor rhictl I rould unfortrur-ately olas. In the afLernoon rrhlIe touring Elshermans Yharf I heard a roar overtrcadrlooked up ard. saw none other than the Blue nagles Aemlatlc Team rrhlctr were also attend-lng the forthconlng Alrshon.

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I also spotted an AircrafL Carrler which hai a number of }Lrrriers clearly vlslble on

deck. Just two days fater it xas tlne to journey on f\rther *1.1 t*" rnr rcay bach tothe Alrportr and checkcd in for fllght UAt25 to- Honolulu. As utth all U'S' Alrports'viewing is very dlfflcuftr tf only b".,.r." the airflelds are so large and spaclous'However goo<i vlews fron the Gate

-revealed the following alrcralL of^Unlted:-iji-szz il9o9ue, N9o1uA; i'ii-iii niyue, nryrua, H5o6ue; DC-1cL10 l1dqur ?6?-?22nzigietzl;l_222'N9o22u,'vp6oau, Ng6izu;'zt+z-tzz'ntizl2u; F-B1DD DC-10, (rItA)l NIg?AE

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nee 145-ZOo festair Conmuter (Unlted txpiess); plus the followlng D(ecutlve Jets:-NrrOOnC B.ZZZ, urzcc nstil, irar$g/Nrrlsp ciiat:.on. t{e were operytJre fron starxl Blarrd the airc:rafL was a nc1U1O UfA+5u; push back nas on tlme aL l))O hours and we

Here alr.bof,,,e fron 1fim.-ly zBR at L355'h6urs local tiroe. Ellght tlne nas 5 hours 15

mlnutes rlth touch aown Lng on tf,e at 15!O. Uhilst on ElnaL Approach to Honolulu Irras able to get a superb vlew of Pearl Harbour, one of the largest natural harbours lnthe world., "id o.,. couLa clearly see the Arizona Menorial honoqring all those peoplekill-ed on ttrat S,nclay nornlng oi Decernber ?Lh tg4L, Just before toucMown ross of US

}lilitary aircr:aft ingl',a;ng Cutrrqy, Starlif'ters, KC-1ls Boeing AUACS KCrlOs and other:s

could be seen at fnO<arn e.F.f. *f,i.h rh.r.. its Rr:nways rlth Honolulu Internatlonal.The nerb couple of weeks ras spent exploring this fasclnating Island ln a ternpelatureof around 85 aleg whlctt needlesi to say was very pleasant, but befory I ras due to come

hone I declded a d"ay shoulcl be spent it the Af"rl;rt, and thls I dld. on Monda.y 25lh Oct-ober. I started ry visit by drivin6 dorm Iagoon Drive. Thls ls on the far slde of thef1e1d a]1cl ls hone of mosL ot th" rr.",g.r", cargo Terninal etc., and what a fasclnatlngs"ppry of alrctafb coulcl be found. A series of snatl roads leads off lagoon Dri"ve up

to-ihl rrartous conpanles }Ihlch glves a good vlew of nost airc:raft. Horever a laIi8echalnlirik fence toiped by barbd wire ristricts some Photogrraphy. 1V 1og ls. as follows:rJ-oryress c"."r-.ir'Ne5oit, r'pi+m, N915FE, rl9394u: 9i*1.,F1lFw Alr rslairder N27l'tR,

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OC-3i t3-VAf, B.f)? r,7t Trutgaru - Klrtbatt. N530tE 747 Federal DQress. Pl,s the starsof the ihor:- N54,i,V, N99X Carv-afr-Harall Paciflc A1r. Both these superb tracNnesare stl1l rn reeular dally'r.ru" o, Inte:s-Islard Cargo Etlghts. surely these must be

about the last ;llllortfv e:ra.np1es of the type. At the enl of regoon Drlve ls a carpari< rfght at the erd of the l,lain Runway rhictr ls used by the ntde"bodled jets ardilso thE 16n4lns threshold of one of the C:rcss Runxays used try Inter-Is1a.nd and l18htalrcraft. A nourd of earth neanrs excellent photos ca.n be tahen over the fenc,e of land-lng arrct clepartlng a.irc:cafL. Also in thls area it ls posslble to 1og sonethlng \Lke 2oo

tGnt "rrc-rart and heucopters. on the Terminal slde lt 1s possible to get through seo'

uJty rrrtuout a tlcket dJ."h ,Llor" access to af-1 areas an6 rrght up to the Depa.rtureCatel antt as nanJr of the Pie::s aIe opelFslded, there are no problens l{.lth tlnted glass

when takin8 photls. FYom a spectators polnt of wiew this ls one of the best afufleldsI,ve \rislted. ll"ty "ir"r-fU

wer" toge.d on the TernlrEl slde lncludlng Northwest.?47Delta Trlstarl contineniJ ?i? ara bc-10; emerrcan Drlo; Unlted DbLoi.wnt'eo-.74?rAmerican Trans-Alr il.0l1: dofu ?)?i llauailan Airflnes Dash f 1 USAF DC-10 9t9M;canad-ian DC-10 c-ccprl jel,ZW.ln8liz, JA8155r JABL2?, Japan A1r Systen DC-10 JAB550.

A11 too qulckly ny troifaay u-as at an end, antd I nade n5r way back to the AlrporL on

ueAnesaay 2gtfr ojo6gr roi rtight UA1o0 departlne aL 225O for los Angeles. Thls Airportmust be it. oc-10 capltal of the world and the nachine provlded ty unlted was N13l9ua Series 10. push bad< and take off was bang on tine al 2255 for the flve hour fllghtto los Angeles.

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L2.eust'neue (conta.)As ne took a nore Northerly route thls nade us sltghtly late arrlvlng aL Ol)O, thlrty -flve nlnutes late. Agaln I $as ab:le to vlslt the Elleht Deck and lt was lnterestlng toconpare lt wlth Lhre ?6?. I had hoped to stay up therr: for the landlng but the crew d*clded to nal<e a f\ll.Iy autonatlc 'hands off' lardlrg as a tr:alning exercise, so I nasunahle to stay. I stt11 flrd 1t lncredlbl.e that a fully laden 7\? can Land totally re-Ilant on lnstnrnents, needless to say the approach a^rd landlng nere absolutely perfecL.Another lnterestln6 feature of Qantas is ttat they alxays carry an exLra cockpit clexnember just 1n case anything goes Frong. They ofYer a superb serrlce and the ln fllghtroute lnfonaatlon systen certalil-y rnakes the long fllght rnuch more lnterestln6 ard thefact that they encourage arq/ passenger onto the Eltght Ded< ls certalnly good to see.

Ian Cratton.

.}IAIJAII OCTOBEN 1992

.lor a nuober of years I've been promislng to look r4r an old IH.erd ln Harall, brrt withono thlng ard another I've never mana6ed lt. Thls year due to a ner scherne launched byUnlted Alrllnea 1n corfulctlon with the U.K.TraveI Trade. lt began to J.ook J.l}e a real-lty rlth seats avallahle at {185 who could say nor Boohlngs can on\r be nade rrlthln tworedce of travel so I allocated three ueeks off rorlc ln October ln the hope that I coullget a seat. I ude ny ray to Heathrow Tern3.nal I on Tueeday l3th October ard arrivedthree hours befone departure 1n order that I could ptd( up Nr tldrets ard nake an earlychec*-In ln the hope of getttng a good seat. At flrst the ctredr-ln cler* offered ne a,saat at the back rlght ln the nlddle but then notlclng I $a"s on a 'q)ecl,al' tlc*etranag€d to allocate !e seat l\C rtrfcn ls an alsle seat Jusft, betrlrd the r1ng, hrt \r anoDerBelrcy erlt xhlch ueans loads of leg roon. ThIs f du\y acceptedl she also advlsedthat tho fllgE rras ln fact overbooked and. offered re 20O dollars Unlted Travel credltlf I srap@ fllghts ard tnstead t:cavelIed vla faatrlrr6lon. Thls rrouJ.d have neart arriv-fr6 Ur San trlanclsco flve hours later ard as tlue uas at a pr€dun I ttecilllred.After clearlrg Securlty and Passport fomaliti.es f ploeeded to the Gra,nnery CoffeeShop for an early lunclr. The food here ls occellent and very reasonably prlced for anIntertatlonal Alrport. The days of the fouL ta"stlng rlety e:qpenslve alrport sa^ndrlch arecertatnly a tMng of the past here. I hlgh\r recorued lt. As atrcraft vlewlng 1s rest^rlc,tod ftil Ternlaal 3 - only a ferl bays can be sest - I engaged ln an hour or so ofpeople eFtttng. At a place llke Heathror rlth fllgtrts learrlng to Tehra.n, Bonbagr,Tolgro, Jeld.h ard lost of .Aner{.ca, thls ls a^n ertreraly lnterestlng psttne.Approxllate\y 45 ntnutes before delnrture I uade ry r.ay vla the rrarr.ous corrldors to.rarda C8ts 15 rtrere ay fJ.l6ht ras board.tng. Along ttre rr4y I paae€al SQ19 bourd forSlugapore, ard VI{-OID of Qantas operatlrg to Bangkoh and. gldney. Boadturg started at1330 8nd hrt for a fer late passengels push ba& youLd have heen on echedule af 1355Horonor r.e rerta 1J Unutes Iate. Eglnes sta:ded re ta:ded at 1415 ard nade an luedl-ets llne r4r o4 the Runray and Her€ alrbounzre W 1l+25. Ihllst ta:rytng re passed JY-BEIAJ10 (Kanza VU), PII-OIL (vlasa)and E-IAB ?4?SP (fran ur). Th€ alrcrafb allocated forthe fllgtrt ras f161uf a ?4?-Z)BB nhlch started ].lfe as VE-EBtt dth qantas. The fl1ehtraa ulleviantfill, taslca-lIy because the Etight Ded< cler gave us no tforilatlon xhatso-ev€! tega^ldlng our helght, ftlght path or anythlng a^nd. 4r request for a v1slt to theELlSht Ded< rrcelved a very flrm no. So lt rras a case of slt badr, erlioy the fll.r,food ard a fer beers. l.lpon arrLval at San FYancil.sco at 1705 local tlne, afber a flightof t0 houre 50 nlnutes re taJded to our Bay. As usual on 6nted.ng the U.S. Custors ardThrgratlon fonalltles took an aget over an hour a^rd a half before I fourd the Coachfor the dorntorn area and eventually ny hotel for a couple of nlghts.The next day I deci.ded to enbadr on a Clty Tour ard B4r fru1se urder the Golden GateBrtdge ard rourd Alcat:raz Islard. Elylng over dur.lng thls tlne rras an A1rshl"p, The Br:d-t elser BIIp, as lt ls knonn. It ras ln the area for an Alrehor rhictl I rould unfortrur-ately olas. In the afLernoon rrhlIe touring Elshermans Yharf I heard a roar overtrcadrlooked up ard. saw none other than the Blue nagles Aemlatlc Team rrhlctr were also attend-lng the forthconlng Alrshon.

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I also spotted an AircrafL Carrler which hai a number of }Lrrriers clearly vlslble on

deck. Just two days fater it xas tlne to journey on f\rther *1.1 t*" rnr rcay bach tothe Alrportr and checkcd in for fllght UAt25 to- Honolulu. As utth all U'S' Alrports'viewing is very dlfflcuftr tf only b".,.r." the airflelds are so large and spaclous'However goo<i vlews fron the Gate

-revealed the following alrcralL of^Unlted:-iji-szz il9o9ue, N9o1uA; i'ii-iii niyue, nryrua, H5o6ue; DC-1cL10 l1dqur ?6?-?22nzigietzl;l_222'N9o22u,'vp6oau, Ng6izu;'zt+z-tzz'ntizl2u; F-B1DD DC-10, (rItA)l NIg?AE

S1.lil yrOEf Elagshlp errtines (,tmerican'liaele); N4I1UA, N4O6UA Jetstrea.rn JlO13 N2!4UA

nee 145-ZOo festair Conmuter (Unlted txpiess); plus the followlng D(ecutlve Jets:-NrrOOnC B.ZZZ, urzcc nstil, irar$g/Nrrlsp ciiat:.on. t{e were operytJre fron starxl Blarrd the airc:rafL was a nc1U1O UfA+5u; push back nas on tlme aL l))O hours and we

Here alr.bof,,,e fron 1fim.-ly zBR at L355'h6urs local tiroe. Ellght tlne nas 5 hours 15

mlnutes rlth touch aown Lng on tf,e at 15!O. Uhilst on ElnaL Approach to Honolulu Irras able to get a superb vlew of Pearl Harbour, one of the largest natural harbours lnthe world., "id o.,. couLa clearly see the Arizona Menorial honoqring all those peoplekill-ed on ttrat S,nclay nornlng oi Decernber ?Lh tg4L, Just before toucMown ross of US

}lilitary aircr:aft ingl',a;ng Cutrrqy, Starlif'ters, KC-1ls Boeing AUACS KCrlOs and other:s

could be seen at fnO<arn e.F.f. *f,i.h rh.r.. its Rr:nways rlth Honolulu Internatlonal.The nerb couple of weeks ras spent exploring this fasclnating Island ln a ternpelatureof around 85 aleg whlctt needlesi to say was very pleasant, but befory I ras due to come

hone I declded a d"ay shoulcl be spent it the Af"rl;rt, and thls I dld. on Monda.y 25lh Oct-ober. I started ry visit by drivin6 dorm Iagoon Drive. Thls ls on the far slde of thef1e1d a]1cl ls hone of mosL ot th" rr.",g.r", cargo Terninal etc., and what a fasclnatlngs"ppry of alrctafb coulcl be found. A series of snatl roads leads off lagoon Dri"ve up

to-ihl rrartous conpanles }Ihlch glves a good vlew of nost airc:raft. Horever a laIi8echalnlirik fence toiped by barbd wire ristricts some Photogrraphy. 1V 1og ls. as follows:rJ-oryress c"."r-.ir'Ne5oit, r'pi+m, N915FE, rl9394u: 9i*1.,F1lFw Alr rslairder N27l'tR,

N7L)6K', NI2IIR. A1oha, Island atr-trtn otter N?ol/45/5/B/9/LO/L2.^F-ocoz l61ander Alrlloorea-- no englnes.-G-BOAE Concorde. BA-Uhat rras thls-dotn6 here??? N8J'9OU Scyvan

fnter fsfarn AIr. U16?21 ltal{allan A.T.S. derelict. NB66LP DC-B Unlted Parcel Serrlce.lfOZt+fn U"ft"a parcel Servtce. N33OSD Shorts 160 Corporale A1r. N799AL DC-B Atr Marstp

"fi i"r*ra".-Ni,ZHA; 111ZlUe C""ir- 208 Carava.n-Hutc6inson Alr. N?&HP, N331UH PA-31^^^Navajo Panorz,na ir". ue6gu Burtington Dcpress. N991lt C-l+? Genavco Alr cargo. N65188

OC-3i t3-VAf, B.f)? r,7t Trutgaru - Klrtbatt. N530tE 747 Federal DQress. Pl,s the starsof the ihor:- N54,i,V, N99X Carv-afr-Harall Paciflc A1r. Both these superb tracNnesare stl1l rn reeular dally'r.ru" o, Inte:s-Islard Cargo Etlghts. surely these must be

about the last ;llllortfv e:ra.np1es of the type. At the enl of regoon Drlve ls a carpari< rfght at the erd of the l,lain Runway rhictr ls used by the ntde"bodled jets ardilso thE 16n4lns threshold of one of the C:rcss Runxays used try Inter-Is1a.nd and l18htalrcraft. A nourd of earth neanrs excellent photos ca.n be tahen over the fenc,e of land-lng arrct clepartlng a.irc:cafL. Also in thls area it ls posslble to 1og sonethlng \Lke 2oo

tGnt "rrc-rart and heucopters. on the Terminal slde lt 1s possible to get through seo'

uJty rrrtuout a tlcket dJ."h ,Llor" access to af-1 areas an6 rrght up to the Depa.rtureCatel antt as nanJr of the Pie::s aIe opelFslded, there are no problens l{.lth tlnted glass

when takin8 photls. FYom a spectators polnt of wiew this ls one of the best afufleldsI,ve \rislted. ll"ty "ir"r-fU

wer" toge.d on the TernlrEl slde lncludlng Northwest.?47Delta Trlstarl contineniJ ?i? ara bc-10; emerrcan Drlo; Unlted DbLoi.wnt'eo-.74?rAmerican Trans-Alr il.0l1: dofu ?)?i llauailan Airflnes Dash f 1 USAF DC-10 9t9M;canad-ian DC-10 c-ccprl jel,ZW.ln8liz, JA8155r JABL2?, Japan A1r Systen DC-10 JAB550.

A11 too qulckly ny troifaay u-as at an end, antd I nade n5r way back to the AlrporL on

ueAnesaay 2gtfr ojo6gr roi rtight UA1o0 departlne aL 225O for los Angeles. Thls Airportmust be it. oc-10 capltal of the world and the nachine provlded ty unlted was N13l9ua Series 10. push bad< and take off was bang on tine al 2255 for the flve hour fllghtto los Angeles.

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An lnterestlng feature lnslde the DG-10 1s 1n fllght telephones. These ar€ sltuated lntho seat baeks one per every tno seat,s, and a credlt card ls needed to use then. Des,-plte the terptatlon I itecfuIed not to rlng home from 101000 feet above the Paclflc Ocean.t{e landed aI 05.55 hours loe:l tlne agaln on schedul-e.I had slx hours betreen fllghts at IA so flrst of all I declded to catch the Courtesycoach to the lfratt Alrport Hotel rrhere I had a !,ash arld brush up before b:reakfast andthen headed track to the Alrport. Ftrst stop rras the Torn hradley lnternatlonal Terminalwhere :reasonable viers can be had of the many He;dcan anal Alaskan A1rcrafL. I then ven-tured outslde once the air had rarmed up a blt, arrd took up a posltlon on the roof topof the nultl-storey car park outslde the tnternatlonal Termlnal.Alrcraft, rlse, the flrst thing you notlce about IA 1s the rrast number of snrall com>uter alrctafL. Four lrnrays were ln constsrt use wlth tro solely dedlcated to thesnaller craft. Over a cor4>1e of hogrs, I logged nasses of alrcrafL, the stars belng:-4 lrexlcana XA-RYT, Al20; XA-DUI, XA-MEB, XA-CUN B.?2?.5 Alaska NglEAS, N939AS, lg33AS, N9loAs DC-9, rV6:is, T)?-4oo, NO?AS B.Tz?.2 Aeronexico XA-DEI, XA-Me DC-9.Xorean HW374 MD-11, HLZ!€|O ?4?-hoo.VASP B::a211 PP-SOZ l.{L11.Slerra Paclflc 8.7)7 |WOS.Connle KalLlta (American International) NBoBCK DC-8.Burllngton AIr DcpresvBuffalo NB62E( B,ZoZ, NB69D( DGB.

Plus eountless SouthweVAnertcary'Deltar/Unftear/contlnental, and nany Irmy nore.Alter a col4)le of hours I nade ny rray to the United Te:mlna.l and Gate 85 where myalrc::aft ras awalting. Agaln it Has an ex @tnas ?l+? Nt5IruA (ex V}tsitsO). The pushback arit take off were on tine at 1235 hours 1ocal for the ten hour fllght back toHeathrow. Agaln very 1ltt1e lnformatlon H-as glven desplte passlng over nost of theUnlted States. Serrrlce was exceflent on the alnost full filght. After a hearty rneal,I na.naged a few hours sleep before landlng thlrby nlnutes early at 0610 hours.Bad< to a very cold feellng Heathrow Alrport.

Ian Gratton.

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lIdluYdlhtrb......... 1010 BelfasL fnternatlonalllo?ulfeTh.FY. . . . 1375 .. . . Belfast Tnternatlonajl

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tJK6g5rK696tJK992)uK9922

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DRAIJII.G BACK TtrB CUf,TAIN

From the moment I began spotting (1965-1sh) f have always felta twlnge of excitemenE when seeing aircraft frorn the rEasEernBloc'. I would think thls is common to mosE spoEtera because ofthe rarit.y value and I remember the buzz on the Eerracea aEHeaEhrow on 21st Feb 1967 when not only was TUt04 CCCP42456 tttAeroflot present buE also a Polish Airforce ILlB FOt'l 54472.The years since then have seen Ehe lncreased presence of Sovietbullt alrcrafE at UK airports and latterly the first vlsits byfront line aircraft. Eo Farnborough, Finningley etc.Despite thisfamiliariEy the blank pages of un-ticked numbers on Ehe Russianpages of my registers kept my interest alive whenever I saH SU

on an arrivals board.The birEh of the nes order in nhaE was the Soviet Union hasalloned a few specialisE t.ravel agents to organise aviationrelated Eours to EasEern Europe and as I perused the brochureslast. wlnter I noEiced a short (5 day) break in llarch toLeningrad (SE.Petersburg) and Moscow run by George Pick. f havehad tno excellent tours rrith GeorSe so I senE a deposit offEhere and Ehen.I dldn't have much t.ime for preparaEion but f bought a phrasebook, a nev winter coaE and a copy of "soviet Airliners 2" fronour friends at Air Supply. George sorred out all the officialstuff,visas etc.so Ehere I was on a dark,wet Thursday-norning12th ltarch 1992 Srabbing a quick coffee in the Diamond Servicelounge at LBA waiting for BD411 (G-oBl'tH) to vlng me to Heathroson the first leg of an aviation advenLure.I took the earl| f118ht to allon for any de1ay, but I,e arrivedon tlnerglving me a -ouple of hours spoEtlng before our snallgroup (id of us) assembled.Of paruicular Lntereat sere a Soodielectton of the nev B737-400s of BA (G-DOCA etc) Swissair UDllHB-IWK,FBDEX DC10 N3O7FE, LufLhansa A320s D-AIPE/AIQE and as a

taste of thlngs Eo come? Aeroflot IL86 C/P86512 and LOI TUI54SP-LCI.We Eet at about 1100 and made our way Ehrough the variouscontrol poinEs in Terminal 1 eventually boardln8 8A878 a 8737-200 c-BGbB for a 1325 depart!$e (or so we thought!).Innedlately above my seat dangled an Emergency Exlt sign.Dangling signs being not approved, two englneere arrived tosecure it,both abouE 5'Ea11 Yithout any steps,I-!E! slEtlngnith another of our parEy,Gerard from Amsterdam (6'5' tal1) soGerard and I (6' tall) were deputised as BA englneera'8iven aro11 of sLicky Eape and j-nsEructed how to stlck up a,danSlingsign much to Lhe imusement of our group and disbellef of rhereJt of Ehe passengers.The besE was yet to come'aoneone hadforgoLten to "service" the aircraft on turnround ao a furthervail of about an hour ensued before ve vere able to rpushback'and start our journey.The elenents tfren began fo help,sErong tal1 wlnds took an houroff uhat should be a 4 hour flight and ne began our approach toLenlngrad <rn schedule.It was aE this point that I got ny flrstrfCni"of Russla and what a aurprise. I had expected -" qgIkse;dy ci.ty yet I vas looking down on a patchlrork of brllllanr

1lr.HAHAII (Contd.)

An lnterestlng feature lnslde the DG-10 1s 1n fllght telephones. These ar€ sltuated lntho seat baeks one per every tno seat,s, and a credlt card ls needed to use then. Des,-plte the terptatlon I itecfuIed not to rlng home from 101000 feet above the Paclflc Ocean.t{e landed aI 05.55 hours loe:l tlne agaln on schedul-e.I had slx hours betreen fllghts at IA so flrst of all I declded to catch the Courtesycoach to the lfratt Alrport Hotel rrhere I had a !,ash arld brush up before b:reakfast andthen headed track to the Alrport. Ftrst stop rras the Torn hradley lnternatlonal Terminalwhere :reasonable viers can be had of the many He;dcan anal Alaskan A1rcrafL. I then ven-tured outslde once the air had rarmed up a blt, arrd took up a posltlon on the roof topof the nultl-storey car park outslde the tnternatlonal Termlnal.Alrcraft, rlse, the flrst thing you notlce about IA 1s the rrast number of snrall com>uter alrctafL. Four lrnrays were ln constsrt use wlth tro solely dedlcated to thesnaller craft. Over a cor4>1e of hogrs, I logged nasses of alrcrafL, the stars belng:-4 lrexlcana XA-RYT, Al20; XA-DUI, XA-MEB, XA-CUN B.?2?.5 Alaska NglEAS, N939AS, lg33AS, N9loAs DC-9, rV6:is, T)?-4oo, NO?AS B.Tz?.2 Aeronexico XA-DEI, XA-Me DC-9.Xorean HW374 MD-11, HLZ!€|O ?4?-hoo.VASP B::a211 PP-SOZ l.{L11.Slerra Paclflc 8.7)7 |WOS.Connle KalLlta (American International) NBoBCK DC-8.Burllngton AIr DcpresvBuffalo NB62E( B,ZoZ, NB69D( DGB.

Plus eountless SouthweVAnertcary'Deltar/Unftear/contlnental, and nany Irmy nore.Alter a col4)le of hours I nade ny rray to the United Te:mlna.l and Gate 85 where myalrc::aft ras awalting. Agaln it Has an ex @tnas ?l+? Nt5IruA (ex V}tsitsO). The pushback arit take off were on tine at 1235 hours 1ocal for the ten hour fllght back toHeathrow. Agaln very 1ltt1e lnformatlon H-as glven desplte passlng over nost of theUnlted States. Serrrlce was exceflent on the alnost full filght. After a hearty rneal,I na.naged a few hours sleep before landlng thlrby nlnutes early at 0610 hours.Bad< to a very cold feellng Heathrow Alrport.

Ian Gratton.

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From the moment I began spotting (1965-1sh) f have always felta twlnge of excitemenE when seeing aircraft frorn the rEasEernBloc'. I would think thls is common to mosE spoEtera because ofthe rarit.y value and I remember the buzz on the Eerracea aEHeaEhrow on 21st Feb 1967 when not only was TUt04 CCCP42456 tttAeroflot present buE also a Polish Airforce ILlB FOt'l 54472.The years since then have seen Ehe lncreased presence of Sovietbullt alrcrafE at UK airports and latterly the first vlsits byfront line aircraft. Eo Farnborough, Finningley etc.Despite thisfamiliariEy the blank pages of un-ticked numbers on Ehe Russianpages of my registers kept my interest alive whenever I saH SU

on an arrivals board.The birEh of the nes order in nhaE was the Soviet Union hasalloned a few specialisE t.ravel agents to organise aviationrelated Eours to EasEern Europe and as I perused the brochureslast. wlnter I noEiced a short (5 day) break in llarch toLeningrad (SE.Petersburg) and Moscow run by George Pick. f havehad tno excellent tours rrith GeorSe so I senE a deposit offEhere and Ehen.I dldn't have much t.ime for preparaEion but f bought a phrasebook, a nev winter coaE and a copy of "soviet Airliners 2" fronour friends at Air Supply. George sorred out all the officialstuff,visas etc.so Ehere I was on a dark,wet Thursday-norning12th ltarch 1992 Srabbing a quick coffee in the Diamond Servicelounge at LBA waiting for BD411 (G-oBl'tH) to vlng me to Heathroson the first leg of an aviation advenLure.I took the earl| f118ht to allon for any de1ay, but I,e arrivedon tlnerglving me a -ouple of hours spoEtlng before our snallgroup (id of us) assembled.Of paruicular Lntereat sere a Soodielectton of the nev B737-400s of BA (G-DOCA etc) Swissair UDllHB-IWK,FBDEX DC10 N3O7FE, LufLhansa A320s D-AIPE/AIQE and as a

taste of thlngs Eo come? Aeroflot IL86 C/P86512 and LOI TUI54SP-LCI.We Eet at about 1100 and made our way Ehrough the variouscontrol poinEs in Terminal 1 eventually boardln8 8A878 a 8737-200 c-BGbB for a 1325 depart!$e (or so we thought!).Innedlately above my seat dangled an Emergency Exlt sign.Dangling signs being not approved, two englneere arrived tosecure it,both abouE 5'Ea11 Yithout any steps,I-!E! slEtlngnith another of our parEy,Gerard from Amsterdam (6'5' tal1) soGerard and I (6' tall) were deputised as BA englneera'8iven aro11 of sLicky Eape and j-nsEructed how to stlck up a,danSlingsign much to Lhe imusement of our group and disbellef of rhereJt of Ehe passengers.The besE was yet to come'aoneone hadforgoLten to "service" the aircraft on turnround ao a furthervail of about an hour ensued before ve vere able to rpushback'and start our journey.The elenents tfren began fo help,sErong tal1 wlnds took an houroff uhat should be a 4 hour flight and ne began our approach toLenlngrad <rn schedule.It was aE this point that I got ny flrstrfCni"of Russla and what a aurprise. I had expected -" qgIkse;dy ci.ty yet I vas looking down on a patchlrork of brllllanr

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tlghts and wlde avenues.The runvay at Pulkovo Airport broughtus back to earth and made me reallse why Russlan aircraft haveblg undercarts vlth lors of nheels.The alrcraft shuddered andbounced lts way to Ehe Eerminal and nlt.h the Emergency ltghLst.lll lntact rre disembarked in the shadon of the huge tall ofan IL76 CP76BL2. (and the shadon of 75 years of statecontrol).Passing through arrlvals I felt like a spy on hlsflrst mlsslon as f nervously handed rny papera fo the officialsonly to be met wlth a pleasant snile and sords ofwelcome.George had got everything riSht and rre stepped!! outinto a cold Russian nlght.Our gulde and coach were craiting to take us to our hotel,LheglanL Sovletskya on Lermontovski Prospekt where the nextiurprise (having regard to news reports at the tlme)awalted.Huge quantities of food nere lald out on our table andwe got stuck in to pickled beetrootrcabbage and meatfriECers,not cordon bleu but very pleasant.Ile retlred to thebar for a few beers bought with che new currency (US dollars)and reflected on the facE that ne had travelled East severalhundred niles and back in tlme about trrenty years!.

Frtday norning,up early, snow blowing ln the wlndra hugebreakfast and on the bus to Rzhevka, Lenlngradts 'other'airfleld.The journey took about half an hour all of it pastblocks of workers flaus until ve emerged into snow coveredcountryslde and the driver pul1ed up at a rrooden building.Wevent inside and were shown round by the alrfleld manager.therels a sma11 museum of the hlstory of Rzhevka concentratinS ont.he Great Parriotlc War (wW2 to us).Ihe manager then joined uson the bus and took us on to the airfleld.Then the smllesbegan to break out.On the ramp next to the main terminal rrereLET 410 CCCP670B3, Yak 40 CIP 879L2 and AN26 CIP 26227 (thealrcraft vere t.hen all still Aeroflot).Parked Just beyond,andall ln the Polar Division red trlm,rere 5 AN30s rrlth theirglass observation noses and camera porEe all over (forsclentlflc mapping and survey).Havlng the boss wiEh us alloved ug to rander and photograph attrlll,this lncluded the flight decks of all the parked aircraft.We were asked if we wanLed to see the other slde of the runwayaa they were only "sma11 agricultural alrcraft" parked there!!Yes please, so the bus drove acroslt the actlve runway (justcheck bot.h ways the boss said as you cross).Llned up for ouratLentlon were Bx Hil Mi2 light hellcopters 4x Kamov 26 sprayerhelos 4x Ml1 MIB transport helos and 22x ANZ blplane t.ransport.smany undergoing maintainance ln the open air buE a couple ofAN2s were lucky enough to have thelr noses in wooden huEs. We

had arranged for a flight in a l'li8 but weather conditions weretoo much for a helicopter t'it.h mlnimal i.nsLruments.At one end of the line was an flyushln IL14 used as a crashrescue trainer and at the other end vas a dump conLaining therenains of many ILl4s and an almost complete l'{11 t{i4 (bir likea t{hlrlsind).we retired "Nithered" to the bus,lt was COLD.We had an hour before lunch in Lennlngrad so we called at theNaval museum. Moored by the quay is the crulser tAurora'which

t7.

flred the flrst ehot of the Rugslan RevoluElon at the CzartgI{lnter Palace (now the Hermltage Huseum ylth iEE 16 nllllonnorke of art). The Naval Museum hag a vonderful collectLon ofscale model shlps each the slze of a cabln crulser featurlnglncredlble detall and spannlng a thousand years of hlatory. Themaln reason for calllng ln tlas Pollkarpov P2 flghter '51- andthls rras found dlsplayed ln one of the halls.$e vere lnvlted to lunch at the ArchltecEs Club set ln theirsna11 palace shlch 1s only now undergolng renovatlon andfeatures a parquet floor as lnErlcate as a marquetry Jevellerybox.Sultably refreshed ne headed back Eo our port of entry,Pulkovo Alrportrwhere a ful1 tour had been arranged.We collected our offlcial at t.he gate and wenE flrst to thedomeatic eide slth lts pinnacle of a control tower. I{e found 7xIL85e, 12x TU134s and 16x IUl54s, we rrere alloned access to allthe fllghE decks and then up Ehe conErol toner for a panoramlcvLen of the whole airporE and a chance to rspott itens oflnterest for the rest of the tour.The parcels area had 3x AN26sand 4x AN24s and then a shouL from one of our rerperte'drewour att.entton to vhat a quick look had sald tANl2r it yaa lnfacE the earlier tvin engined ANB (reg CIP 69326) a kneevobbllng rarity! Ihe 6x AN12s parked nearby rere a nix ofst.andard trlm and Polar red giving nlce photographLcconparlson. A lone IL1B C/P 75556 was out of photo reach buEthe Uil factory, helicopter parklng area rras OK ao long ao vearayed behind the grass verge.Thls gave good vlerra of tOx M18strro of rrhlch nere arny, (305/306).The snon began to fall andthe llght vas dropping so re rejoined Ehe coach and headed forthe hotel.The day dres to a close with a good meal,Georgianvine and a cabaret.

Saturday had been left free for flying at Rzhevka and theposatblllty of further visits, however the seather clagged lnand all we got frou there was a Yak 40,ClP 87932,AN26 C/P O12OBand 4 nore AN24s. I{e were the lucky onesrdozens of beleagueredBussiang huddled ln the prlmitive terminal bullding,the alrheavy vlth danp cloEhes and rough tobacco amoke, all valtlngfor gone nens of aeat on a fllght to aome unpronouncabledeat lnat lon.Ile returned to Lenlngrad (I scill donrt thlnk of lt asSt.Petersburg and nelther did any of our guldee) for lunch in apleaaant prlvately ovned regtauranE 1n the St.Peter and Paulfortress.We spent the aft.ernoon slghtseelng ln thls incredlblybeautlful clty of palaces and canalsrve bought our souvenLra lnthe market and nere shovn round the rState aupernarketr. HogEof the ghelves nere fu11 but no one could afford to buyrallthelr money being kept for staple foods.Our hotel provided another fine meal and the chartce to vagh andbruah up but we r.ere not staying the nlShtrour beda sere on theovernight sleeper traln Eo Moscorr.

Our coach dropped us at the station and ve jolned the crowdsshuffllng through the freezlng nlghu alr onto the platforme.There are about a dozen tralns every nlght to Hoecoy because

t6.

tlghts and wlde avenues.The runvay at Pulkovo Airport broughtus back to earth and made me reallse why Russlan aircraft haveblg undercarts vlth lors of nheels.The alrcraft shuddered andbounced lts way to Ehe Eerminal and nlt.h the Emergency ltghLst.lll lntact rre disembarked in the shadon of the huge tall ofan IL76 CP76BL2. (and the shadon of 75 years of statecontrol).Passing through arrlvals I felt like a spy on hlsflrst mlsslon as f nervously handed rny papera fo the officialsonly to be met wlth a pleasant snile and sords ofwelcome.George had got everything riSht and rre stepped!! outinto a cold Russian nlght.Our gulde and coach were craiting to take us to our hotel,LheglanL Sovletskya on Lermontovski Prospekt where the nextiurprise (having regard to news reports at the tlme)awalted.Huge quantities of food nere lald out on our table andwe got stuck in to pickled beetrootrcabbage and meatfriECers,not cordon bleu but very pleasant.Ile retlred to thebar for a few beers bought with che new currency (US dollars)and reflected on the facE that ne had travelled East severalhundred niles and back in tlme about trrenty years!.

Frtday norning,up early, snow blowing ln the wlndra hugebreakfast and on the bus to Rzhevka, Lenlngradts 'other'airfleld.The journey took about half an hour all of it pastblocks of workers flaus until ve emerged into snow coveredcountryslde and the driver pul1ed up at a rrooden building.Wevent inside and were shown round by the alrfleld manager.therels a sma11 museum of the hlstory of Rzhevka concentratinS ont.he Great Parriotlc War (wW2 to us).Ihe manager then joined uson the bus and took us on to the airfleld.Then the smllesbegan to break out.On the ramp next to the main terminal rrereLET 410 CCCP670B3, Yak 40 CIP 879L2 and AN26 CIP 26227 (thealrcraft vere t.hen all still Aeroflot).Parked Just beyond,andall ln the Polar Division red trlm,rere 5 AN30s rrlth theirglass observation noses and camera porEe all over (forsclentlflc mapping and survey).Havlng the boss wiEh us alloved ug to rander and photograph attrlll,this lncluded the flight decks of all the parked aircraft.We were asked if we wanLed to see the other slde of the runwayaa they were only "sma11 agricultural alrcraft" parked there!!Yes please, so the bus drove acroslt the actlve runway (justcheck bot.h ways the boss said as you cross).Llned up for ouratLentlon were Bx Hil Mi2 light hellcopters 4x Kamov 26 sprayerhelos 4x Ml1 MIB transport helos and 22x ANZ blplane t.ransport.smany undergoing maintainance ln the open air buE a couple ofAN2s were lucky enough to have thelr noses in wooden huEs. We

had arranged for a flight in a l'li8 but weather conditions weretoo much for a helicopter t'it.h mlnimal i.nsLruments.At one end of the line was an flyushln IL14 used as a crashrescue trainer and at the other end vas a dump conLaining therenains of many ILl4s and an almost complete l'{11 t{i4 (bir likea t{hlrlsind).we retired "Nithered" to the bus,lt was COLD.We had an hour before lunch in Lennlngrad so we called at theNaval museum. Moored by the quay is the crulser tAurora'which

t7.

flred the flrst ehot of the Rugslan RevoluElon at the CzartgI{lnter Palace (now the Hermltage Huseum ylth iEE 16 nllllonnorke of art). The Naval Museum hag a vonderful collectLon ofscale model shlps each the slze of a cabln crulser featurlnglncredlble detall and spannlng a thousand years of hlatory. Themaln reason for calllng ln tlas Pollkarpov P2 flghter '51- andthls rras found dlsplayed ln one of the halls.$e vere lnvlted to lunch at the ArchltecEs Club set ln theirsna11 palace shlch 1s only now undergolng renovatlon andfeatures a parquet floor as lnErlcate as a marquetry Jevellerybox.Sultably refreshed ne headed back Eo our port of entry,Pulkovo Alrportrwhere a ful1 tour had been arranged.We collected our offlcial at t.he gate and wenE flrst to thedomeatic eide slth lts pinnacle of a control tower. I{e found 7xIL85e, 12x TU134s and 16x IUl54s, we rrere alloned access to allthe fllghE decks and then up Ehe conErol toner for a panoramlcvLen of the whole airporE and a chance to rspott itens oflnterest for the rest of the tour.The parcels area had 3x AN26sand 4x AN24s and then a shouL from one of our rerperte'drewour att.entton to vhat a quick look had sald tANl2r it yaa lnfacE the earlier tvin engined ANB (reg CIP 69326) a kneevobbllng rarity! Ihe 6x AN12s parked nearby rere a nix ofst.andard trlm and Polar red giving nlce photographLcconparlson. A lone IL1B C/P 75556 was out of photo reach buEthe Uil factory, helicopter parklng area rras OK ao long ao vearayed behind the grass verge.Thls gave good vlerra of tOx M18strro of rrhlch nere arny, (305/306).The snon began to fall andthe llght vas dropping so re rejoined Ehe coach and headed forthe hotel.The day dres to a close with a good meal,Georgianvine and a cabaret.

Saturday had been left free for flying at Rzhevka and theposatblllty of further visits, however the seather clagged lnand all we got frou there was a Yak 40,ClP 87932,AN26 C/P O12OBand 4 nore AN24s. I{e were the lucky onesrdozens of beleagueredBussiang huddled ln the prlmitive terminal bullding,the alrheavy vlth danp cloEhes and rough tobacco amoke, all valtlngfor gone nens of aeat on a fllght to aome unpronouncabledeat lnat lon.Ile returned to Lenlngrad (I scill donrt thlnk of lt asSt.Petersburg and nelther did any of our guldee) for lunch in apleaaant prlvately ovned regtauranE 1n the St.Peter and Paulfortress.We spent the aft.ernoon slghtseelng ln thls incredlblybeautlful clty of palaces and canalsrve bought our souvenLra lnthe market and nere shovn round the rState aupernarketr. HogEof the ghelves nere fu11 but no one could afford to buyrallthelr money being kept for staple foods.Our hotel provided another fine meal and the chartce to vagh andbruah up but we r.ere not staying the nlShtrour beda sere on theovernight sleeper traln Eo Moscorr.

Our coach dropped us at the station and ve jolned the crowdsshuffllng through the freezlng nlghu alr onto the platforme.There are about a dozen tralns every nlght to Hoecoy because

18.

the road ls not good enough to pernlt confortable paasengertrrvel betseen Rueslats tio maJor cltles.The carrlages eerealnllar to BR and aa re rere firot claaa there were only trobunka ln the conpartment. rgor, our chlef guide and a partnerln the travel compsny looklng after us travelled hooe to lfoscotrlth ua,He advlsed ui on hon-to deal Ylth the conductora and lnexchange for tro dollarg I sampled Georglan 'chanpagner. fnfact I sanpled a full bottle and roke up the next DornLng rttha bllnding headache and a cravlng for the paracetanol andSredlsh mLneral vater I had strsteglcally placed nearby. Theret ere atlrrings from the neighboura and upon openlng thecurtalns I saw dayllght and a anor covered vorLd paeslng by.After about half an hour of non stop lndustrlal landacape repulleil lnto the statlon. f was asaaulted by the colde8t alr fhave ever experlenced and ne hurrled to our coach rhich carriedus to The 'Golden Rlng' hotel, rhere a welcole raah andbreakfast raLted, to frepare us for our vlelt that day to theYurL Gagarin lnstitute and Alr Force lluseu[ at ]lonlno.

t{oscor, 1g surrounded by several nllltary aLrfietdarof rhichHonlno ia one of the less activerlt houaee the Alr Forceacademy and the Russlan versLon of Eendon or Tright Patterson.There are about 100 aircraft on vlerrDany you 1111 never haveheard of. As the coach pulled up, Aeroflot At{72 CIP 72813 aasdolng circults and 6t the control torer on the actl.ve al.de rereparked lL76 CIP 85047 and a TlJL?ll Bactflre both lntended forthe collectlon. Our gulde ras a retl.red Sovlet ltaJor and a f,eroof the Sovlet UnLon who flen a Yat 9 durlng the GPII (wr2renenber) He nas very proud and very biased about the oldSovlet achievements but a blt out of touch rlth nodern rarfare.Ee had glven up hls Sunday to ahor ug round. ftre Lndoordlsplays range from early experLnents ln glldera throughlngenlous non-plston petrol engLnea and early JetB toapaceflight.fn the main dlsplay hangar la a Soprlth Trlplane, arepllca Sikorski Glgant ,the rorld tourlng 1930s Atil1l25 rhtchahocked the Amerlcans when lt arrlved due to lts advancednonoplane conflguration,several gllderara Voisln blplane and agelectlon of their wartLne atalrarts; PO2rPetlyakov PE2,Yat 9,P16(I!11 let you look then all up)I{e set off round the outslde dtaplay rhlch contaLns the bulk ofthe collection, every llIG from 9 to 29rsukhol flghters 7 to 25lncludlng the T62 verslon of the SU24 Pencer (coded 6l) and theexperlmental SUl3 (T100) supersonic bonber rhlch renalnedunseen and largely unknorvn prlor to llonl.no openl,ng Lta doorg.There are Mil hellcopters lncludlng the tlttO Earke crane, andthe Hll V12,the largest ever built rlth the cross section of aGalaxy, multiple jet.s and trrin outrLgger rotora-a nonster!There are sarnples of the Tupolev alrliners III1O4 (ntlltary reg46) TVl24 (smaller verslon of lo4)' TU144 (Concordskl) and nyfavourlte the big prop TU114 (old reg CCCP L5611) once aregular on the Moscorr-Shannon-Eavana run but nore uaually seenln photos as lts Hllitary slster the TU95 Bear of shlch therela a flne example parked nearby.There are lfyasichev bombers ll4Blson and super'sonlc delta u5O Bounder, Tupolev bonbers TUl6

L9.

Badger,TU22 Bllnder and TU22t{ Backflre and the bonber al.zedflghter TU28 Flddler dealgned to lntercept 852a over Slberla.The llst 8oea on- Experlmental and record breaklng typeaLavochkln Ut25OA,Ulc Y8156 (a llghtened Forbat vhLch holda nanyrorld apeed and altltude records) a WS15 lJlng ln Ground Effect(taIGE) an Aeroflot deslgn reg GCCPl.O687 vhlch le an alrcraftthat never flles hlgher than a ferr feet and le Lntended toapeed you across hundrede of nlles of flat Iundra at alrcraftepeeda (lt craahed!).Ihere ls a Berlev Be12 Ha1l Flylng boatand exanples of early alrllners IL12 (Hitttary reg 10) IL14CccP41860 ,Lrz (Dc3 copy) cccp939t4 and a later fl,l8.l{e spent nost of the day ac l{onino, the sun shone nogt of thetlDera deep covering of snow on the ground (and plenty on theaircraft) caused us a fel, probleos but gaye the place anatnoaphere.I s111 never forget.l{e had gufflclent tloe to uake one nore atop that day, theCentral arny Duaeun in the middle of lloscoyron arrlval I naslopreaaed by the huge granlte ediflce flanked by flr treeg andan SS2O ICBll,I rras even more lmpresaed by the llnes of nodernftghter alrcraft slap bang ln the city centre.There are 5HlGsra couple of Sukhols an fL18 Beagle bonber and tnohellcoptera, a U114 llare and a Mi124 Elnd gunahlp. There arealgo loadg of tanks, nissiles and nilltary hardvare.As llghtfalled re vent lndoors to the amartest ruaeun I ear ln RuesLa,1t la Dodern,nultlllngual and very intereatlng. ft even hasGary Poverst U2 blts and one of the riagiles that totalled lt.Llke all the mugeumg you have to leave your coat at thecloakrooo and pay for a photo licence (about f,l for theparty).In return for this fee ne all got a book ln Engllsh.bout the battle for Mogcow in IJI{2 (sorry GPII) fron the veryfrlendly staff.Back at the hotel ve had an early ueal to allos us tl.oe for ourevenlng event; a trlp to the uoscorr Stat.e Clrcua. Noy I donrtllLe clrcuseg and aa a "professional" aninal peraon I donrtllke to see animals abused. I was thrllled by the atnoaphere atshat ls probably the best clrcus ln the vorld, I dldnrt ltkethe anlnal acts though f thought the porcupLne tralner yaa !,erybrave (thlnk of a Rottwelller vlth epeara). The humanperforuera nere lncredlble and the vlsual antLca of the clornsneeded no lnterpreter.I{e finlshed a long nenorable day ylth afes beere ln the hotel b8r.

Our flnal day In Russia dawned clear and coldrldeal conditlonsfor a uad dagh round Mogcov's alghts startl.ng opposlte thehotel ylth the rtrorelgn Ministry! one of Stalins cathedralafron the lg5os,past Gorky Park and through ZherzLnekl aquarehooe of the KGB and Lubyanka prlaon to Bed Square and theKrenlln,I had ny photo taken ln front of the Lenln nausoleumand aav'the changlng of the guard,re v181ted the lnelde of thef,reolln ulth lts golden doned churches full of prlceless fconsand apent a fen minutes at the nattonal sar uemorlal andeternal flame.Our gulde durlng our atay ln Uoacos nas acophlrtlcated lady called Elena nho had an encyclopaedlc

18.

the road ls not good enough to pernlt confortable paasengertrrvel betseen Rueslats tio maJor cltles.The carrlages eerealnllar to BR and aa re rere firot claaa there were only trobunka ln the conpartment. rgor, our chlef guide and a partnerln the travel compsny looklng after us travelled hooe to lfoscotrlth ua,He advlsed ui on hon-to deal Ylth the conductora and lnexchange for tro dollarg I sampled Georglan 'chanpagner. fnfact I sanpled a full bottle and roke up the next DornLng rttha bllnding headache and a cravlng for the paracetanol andSredlsh mLneral vater I had strsteglcally placed nearby. Theret ere atlrrings from the neighboura and upon openlng thecurtalns I saw dayllght and a anor covered vorLd paeslng by.After about half an hour of non stop lndustrlal landacape repulleil lnto the statlon. f was asaaulted by the colde8t alr fhave ever experlenced and ne hurrled to our coach rhich carriedus to The 'Golden Rlng' hotel, rhere a welcole raah andbreakfast raLted, to frepare us for our vlelt that day to theYurL Gagarin lnstitute and Alr Force lluseu[ at ]lonlno.

t{oscor, 1g surrounded by several nllltary aLrfietdarof rhichHonlno ia one of the less activerlt houaee the Alr Forceacademy and the Russlan versLon of Eendon or Tright Patterson.There are about 100 aircraft on vlerrDany you 1111 never haveheard of. As the coach pulled up, Aeroflot At{72 CIP 72813 aasdolng circults and 6t the control torer on the actl.ve al.de rereparked lL76 CIP 85047 and a TlJL?ll Bactflre both lntended forthe collectlon. Our gulde ras a retl.red Sovlet ltaJor and a f,eroof the Sovlet UnLon who flen a Yat 9 durlng the GPII (wr2renenber) He nas very proud and very biased about the oldSovlet achievements but a blt out of touch rlth nodern rarfare.Ee had glven up hls Sunday to ahor ug round. ftre Lndoordlsplays range from early experLnents ln glldera throughlngenlous non-plston petrol engLnea and early JetB toapaceflight.fn the main dlsplay hangar la a Soprlth Trlplane, arepllca Sikorski Glgant ,the rorld tourlng 1930s Atil1l25 rhtchahocked the Amerlcans when lt arrlved due to lts advancednonoplane conflguration,several gllderara Voisln blplane and agelectlon of their wartLne atalrarts; PO2rPetlyakov PE2,Yat 9,P16(I!11 let you look then all up)I{e set off round the outslde dtaplay rhlch contaLns the bulk ofthe collection, every llIG from 9 to 29rsukhol flghters 7 to 25lncludlng the T62 verslon of the SU24 Pencer (coded 6l) and theexperlmental SUl3 (T100) supersonic bonber rhlch renalnedunseen and largely unknorvn prlor to llonl.no openl,ng Lta doorg.There are Mil hellcopters lncludlng the tlttO Earke crane, andthe Hll V12,the largest ever built rlth the cross section of aGalaxy, multiple jet.s and trrin outrLgger rotora-a nonster!There are sarnples of the Tupolev alrliners III1O4 (ntlltary reg46) TVl24 (smaller verslon of lo4)' TU144 (Concordskl) and nyfavourlte the big prop TU114 (old reg CCCP L5611) once aregular on the Moscorr-Shannon-Eavana run but nore uaually seenln photos as lts Hllitary slster the TU95 Bear of shlch therela a flne example parked nearby.There are lfyasichev bombers ll4Blson and super'sonlc delta u5O Bounder, Tupolev bonbers TUl6

L9.

Badger,TU22 Bllnder and TU22t{ Backflre and the bonber al.zedflghter TU28 Flddler dealgned to lntercept 852a over Slberla.The llst 8oea on- Experlmental and record breaklng typeaLavochkln Ut25OA,Ulc Y8156 (a llghtened Forbat vhLch holda nanyrorld apeed and altltude records) a WS15 lJlng ln Ground Effect(taIGE) an Aeroflot deslgn reg GCCPl.O687 vhlch le an alrcraftthat never flles hlgher than a ferr feet and le Lntended toapeed you across hundrede of nlles of flat Iundra at alrcraftepeeda (lt craahed!).Ihere ls a Berlev Be12 Ha1l Flylng boatand exanples of early alrllners IL12 (Hitttary reg 10) IL14CccP41860 ,Lrz (Dc3 copy) cccp939t4 and a later fl,l8.l{e spent nost of the day ac l{onino, the sun shone nogt of thetlDera deep covering of snow on the ground (and plenty on theaircraft) caused us a fel, probleos but gaye the place anatnoaphere.I s111 never forget.l{e had gufflclent tloe to uake one nore atop that day, theCentral arny Duaeun in the middle of lloscoyron arrlval I naslopreaaed by the huge granlte ediflce flanked by flr treeg andan SS2O ICBll,I rras even more lmpresaed by the llnes of nodernftghter alrcraft slap bang ln the city centre.There are 5HlGsra couple of Sukhols an fL18 Beagle bonber and tnohellcoptera, a U114 llare and a Mi124 Elnd gunahlp. There arealgo loadg of tanks, nissiles and nilltary hardvare.As llghtfalled re vent lndoors to the amartest ruaeun I ear ln RuesLa,1t la Dodern,nultlllngual and very intereatlng. ft even hasGary Poverst U2 blts and one of the riagiles that totalled lt.Llke all the mugeumg you have to leave your coat at thecloakrooo and pay for a photo licence (about f,l for theparty).In return for this fee ne all got a book ln Engllsh.bout the battle for Mogcow in IJI{2 (sorry GPII) fron the veryfrlendly staff.Back at the hotel ve had an early ueal to allos us tl.oe for ourevenlng event; a trlp to the uoscorr Stat.e Clrcua. Noy I donrtllLe clrcuseg and aa a "professional" aninal peraon I donrtllke to see animals abused. I was thrllled by the atnoaphere atshat ls probably the best clrcus ln the vorld, I dldnrt ltkethe anlnal acts though f thought the porcupLne tralner yaa !,erybrave (thlnk of a Rottwelller vlth epeara). The humanperforuera nere lncredlble and the vlsual antLca of the clornsneeded no lnterpreter.I{e finlshed a long nenorable day ylth afes beere ln the hotel b8r.

Our flnal day In Russia dawned clear and coldrldeal conditlonsfor a uad dagh round Mogcov's alghts startl.ng opposlte thehotel ylth the rtrorelgn Ministry! one of Stalins cathedralafron the lg5os,past Gorky Park and through ZherzLnekl aquarehooe of the KGB and Lubyanka prlaon to Bed Square and theKrenlln,I had ny photo taken ln front of the Lenln nausoleumand aav'the changlng of the guard,re v181ted the lnelde of thef,reolln ulth lts golden doned churches full of prlceless fconsand apent a fen minutes at the nattonal sar uemorlal andeternal flame.Our gulde durlng our atay ln Uoacos nas acophlrtlcated lady called Elena nho had an encyclopaedlc

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knorledge of Russlan hlatory a8 [e11 as avlatlon and aheexplalnid that the Rugglana treat the sacrlflces of the GreatPatrlotlc Uar almoat aa a rellglon.It forDed thelr dlstruat ofall forelgn porera and lt nas iot belleved that over 30 llllltonSovLet men wornen and chlldren dled at the handg of the nazla.

Our route to Sherenetyevo (lloocorrs naLn lnternatlonal alrPort)took ug paat Frunze tire home of the ltlg and Sukhol deelgnbureaux. It ls sttll an actlve atrfleld but raa once a raJoralrport,the termlnal ls nos a aporta centre but the fleld hasan impresslve collectlon of nodern flghterarall open forLnapectlon and a unique chance to 8lt at the controls of suchSena as a Sukhol 15 Flagon (the fl8hter that shot dorn theKorean 747). on the fllihtllne rere; (aa vell aa a couple ofheltcopters); Foxbats,FloggersrFlehbederFltters, a Frogfoot,Planker Futcrun and Forgei. There wag alao a aouvenLr ahopselllng postera, badges and photos all at about 1 pennyeach,(we stripped lt bare!)

A ahort tlme later we arrlved at Shereoetyevo. Ife had a tour ofthe Aeroflot malntainance base arranged and rere velconed wlththe usual enthusiasm, I{e vere shosn around an IL76 frelghterand allowed to sit at the controls and photograph vherever weriahed. A ltttle nan even stopped worklng on the fllght deck toallov ua unrelrtrlcted accesg!Out on the ramps were 19 x TU154s, 8 x TU134a, 18 x IL76s 1O xIL62s, 7 x fl86s, 5 x ILl8s and a aelectlon oflW24sl26sll2sl72slvak 4Os and a fer choppera.AdJacent to Aeroflot Ls the Natr,onal Phyalcal Laboratory rithan unugual aelecELon of test al.rcraft lncludlng Yakl8rCCCP44530 and mllltary AN24a moet of rhlch rere re1l securedaray fron view.At the other end of the ranp ls the Clvll Alr Tralnlag Grouprhlch houses a selectlon of ex Aeroflot types and alao a TU22Bllnder bonber.Untll recently there raa no real distlnctionbetreen the rnl1ltary and Aeroflot and pllot8 and engineers eereexpected to be able to fly and servLce a varlety of types lntLnes of crlsls.Of ,.nterest at the domestic ternlnal yere Gernan A/F TUl5411+O2 and Falcon 50 C-GYPJ, but tlne waa flylng ao re headedfor the lnternatlonal termlnal or Sherenetyevo 2 aa lt lsknorn.We had a meal booked ln the reataurant overlooklng therunsay and stands and whllst tucklng lnto the ever popular oeatfrlttirs and assorted pickled veg rre rere able to 1og severalinterestlng novements includlng 5A-DNU lL76 ; EC-DIB 8747rberLa ; nB-rtt Gulf 4: oE-LAc A3LO AUA and oO-sGD 8747 sabena.

All too aoon it was tLrne to aay our goodbyes and thanks to ISorand Helena (and also George nho nag Etaylng on to arrange hisaummer tours) I passed very quickly through controls narrowlybeatlng the North Korean Lce hockey team and jolned up trithgome oi our party ln llurphy's bar (Shert 2 la run by the frlshln a Jolnt venture) and after attacklng the duty free shops wejolned the queue for BAB73 to tondon.The day after was St.

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Patrlcks day and the fllght wae packed,fortunately the alrcraftsaa 8767 G-BNWL and desplte the irosds-and the aforenentlonedlce-hockey tean I found a comfy seat. Thlngs got a blt hectlcdurlng the fllght so afrer rhe meal f asked t6e pureer if Icould_take refuge on the fllght deck,explainlng that I sag a 60hour flrst officer! on a Cherokee (s6 fts not doncorde but frmtrylng). the cres rrere very obligtng and I apent the oert hourlearnlng the lng and outs of the-nen "glaes Lockplt, ag ve fletrover a re-unlted Berlln.The rest of the fl1ght pasaed qutcklyand after clearing custons at Heathrow I made a-dagh f6r the-Br1t18h llldland tlcket desk and nanaged to get a atandby tlckett9 LBA.AS BD42O (G-OBHC) pushed back f logged ny laar nunber ofthe trlp; OO-sDx 8737 Sabena; The fltght iis neirly elpry aothe aervlce rrae flrst class and we arilved at LBA iUoul tenDlnutes ahead of schedule,nhere sife Judy and the doga vereyaltlng for ne (she had to walt a blt loiger as I ra- the onlypaaaenger vlth hold luggage!)-f v111 never forget my flrst trlp to RugsLa and even though Ihope to return soon I doubt vhether it vill be the saleraathl.nga are changing eo quickly. The Dollar ruleg and Aeioflota-re,buylng rreat.ern aircraft.All the new States are adoptLngtbelr ovn ldentities. As we drove through t.he cltleE ft sttfffelt ag though Eurgesa and Haclean or even Earry palner vouldlppgar on the atreet corner. Georgers prevloua trlp ln August1991 raa Lnterrupted by the coup.-Gerard the 6'6 Dutchran-fronour party had been rrlth hlo and had etood rrlth the Xuasianpeople yho faced tlre tanks outslde the tWhlte Houser.I fear thecountry slll be urrsEable for years to cone which ls a greatpl.ty as the people are so frlendly and deserve a break after aorany years ln he dark.If Lenlngrad/St Peteraburg can be tldledup lt vtll becone the greatest tourLst attractlon in the vorld.The llnea of TU95 Bearg seen on the TV ners arrlvlng at thelrbaaec lo the far North and in lJkraLne are unllkeLy io fly againaad the dealgn bureaux that produced giant frelghtera thitstu[ned the P8rls Airshow are having to adapt to a narketecoooDy and produce rnlcrollghts,Irm glad I vent when I dld.

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knorledge of Russlan hlatory a8 [e11 as avlatlon and aheexplalnid that the Rugglana treat the sacrlflces of the GreatPatrlotlc Uar almoat aa a rellglon.It forDed thelr dlstruat ofall forelgn porera and lt nas iot belleved that over 30 llllltonSovLet men wornen and chlldren dled at the handg of the nazla.

Our route to Sherenetyevo (lloocorrs naLn lnternatlonal alrPort)took ug paat Frunze tire home of the ltlg and Sukhol deelgnbureaux. It ls sttll an actlve atrfleld but raa once a raJoralrport,the termlnal ls nos a aporta centre but the fleld hasan impresslve collectlon of nodern flghterarall open forLnapectlon and a unique chance to 8lt at the controls of suchSena as a Sukhol 15 Flagon (the fl8hter that shot dorn theKorean 747). on the fllihtllne rere; (aa vell aa a couple ofheltcopters); Foxbats,FloggersrFlehbederFltters, a Frogfoot,Planker Futcrun and Forgei. There wag alao a aouvenLr ahopselllng postera, badges and photos all at about 1 pennyeach,(we stripped lt bare!)

A ahort tlme later we arrlved at Shereoetyevo. Ife had a tour ofthe Aeroflot malntainance base arranged and rere velconed wlththe usual enthusiasm, I{e vere shosn around an IL76 frelghterand allowed to sit at the controls and photograph vherever weriahed. A ltttle nan even stopped worklng on the fllght deck toallov ua unrelrtrlcted accesg!Out on the ramps were 19 x TU154s, 8 x TU134a, 18 x IL76s 1O xIL62s, 7 x fl86s, 5 x ILl8s and a aelectlon oflW24sl26sll2sl72slvak 4Os and a fer choppera.AdJacent to Aeroflot Ls the Natr,onal Phyalcal Laboratory rithan unugual aelecELon of test al.rcraft lncludlng Yakl8rCCCP44530 and mllltary AN24a moet of rhlch rere re1l securedaray fron view.At the other end of the ranp ls the Clvll Alr Tralnlag Grouprhlch houses a selectlon of ex Aeroflot types and alao a TU22Bllnder bonber.Untll recently there raa no real distlnctionbetreen the rnl1ltary and Aeroflot and pllot8 and engineers eereexpected to be able to fly and servLce a varlety of types lntLnes of crlsls.Of ,.nterest at the domestic ternlnal yere Gernan A/F TUl5411+O2 and Falcon 50 C-GYPJ, but tlne waa flylng ao re headedfor the lnternatlonal termlnal or Sherenetyevo 2 aa lt lsknorn.We had a meal booked ln the reataurant overlooklng therunsay and stands and whllst tucklng lnto the ever popular oeatfrlttirs and assorted pickled veg rre rere able to 1og severalinterestlng novements includlng 5A-DNU lL76 ; EC-DIB 8747rberLa ; nB-rtt Gulf 4: oE-LAc A3LO AUA and oO-sGD 8747 sabena.

All too aoon it was tLrne to aay our goodbyes and thanks to ISorand Helena (and also George nho nag Etaylng on to arrange hisaummer tours) I passed very quickly through controls narrowlybeatlng the North Korean Lce hockey team and jolned up trithgome oi our party ln llurphy's bar (Shert 2 la run by the frlshln a Jolnt venture) and after attacklng the duty free shops wejolned the queue for BAB73 to tondon.The day after was St.

21.

Patrlcks day and the fllght wae packed,fortunately the alrcraftsaa 8767 G-BNWL and desplte the irosds-and the aforenentlonedlce-hockey tean I found a comfy seat. Thlngs got a blt hectlcdurlng the fllght so afrer rhe meal f asked t6e pureer if Icould_take refuge on the fllght deck,explainlng that I sag a 60hour flrst officer! on a Cherokee (s6 fts not doncorde but frmtrylng). the cres rrere very obligtng and I apent the oert hourlearnlng the lng and outs of the-nen "glaes Lockplt, ag ve fletrover a re-unlted Berlln.The rest of the fl1ght pasaed qutcklyand after clearing custons at Heathrow I made a-dagh f6r the-Br1t18h llldland tlcket desk and nanaged to get a atandby tlckett9 LBA.AS BD42O (G-OBHC) pushed back f logged ny laar nunber ofthe trlp; OO-sDx 8737 Sabena; The fltght iis neirly elpry aothe aervlce rrae flrst class and we arilved at LBA iUoul tenDlnutes ahead of schedule,nhere sife Judy and the doga vereyaltlng for ne (she had to walt a blt loiger as I ra- the onlypaaaenger vlth hold luggage!)-f v111 never forget my flrst trlp to RugsLa and even though Ihope to return soon I doubt vhether it vill be the saleraathl.nga are changing eo quickly. The Dollar ruleg and Aeioflota-re,buylng rreat.ern aircraft.All the new States are adoptLngtbelr ovn ldentities. As we drove through t.he cltleE ft sttfffelt ag though Eurgesa and Haclean or even Earry palner vouldlppgar on the atreet corner. Georgers prevloua trlp ln August1991 raa Lnterrupted by the coup.-Gerard the 6'6 Dutchran-fronour party had been rrlth hlo and had etood rrlth the Xuasianpeople yho faced tlre tanks outslde the tWhlte Houser.I fear thecountry slll be urrsEable for years to cone which ls a greatpl.ty as the people are so frlendly and deserve a break after aorany years ln he dark.If Lenlngrad/St Peteraburg can be tldledup lt vtll becone the greatest tourLst attractlon in the vorld.The llnea of TU95 Bearg seen on the TV ners arrlvlng at thelrbaaec lo the far North and in lJkraLne are unllkeLy io fly againaad the dealgn bureaux that produced giant frelghtera thitstu[ned the P8rls Airshow are having to adapt to a narketecoooDy and produce rnlcrollghts,Irm glad I vent when I dld.

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