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A380 at Manchester     Dave Rose, Ian McMaster and Aidan Williamson       12/9/10

Its been a few weeks since Emirates started their daily A380 service into Manchester and we wanted some shots of the thing before the weather got into the "grim" category. Manchester has been pretty poor this year on the variety front and we have never seen it so quiet, they were only using 23R so that says it all. We spotted from the top of the multi storey dodging some early showers and it got steadily brighter. Etihad have changed to a 77W which made a nice change along with Singapore who have also upgraded from a 772. Manchester has a steady stream of transatlantic schedules, 2 American 757s, 2 Continental 757s, a Delta 763, 757 and a US Airways 333 so its not all bad!!

We moved down to the excellent "Tatton Arms" for some landing shots, the car park became very busy with "That Big Airbus" watchers ready for the scheduled arrival at 12.35pm. It duly appeared on time to much "phewing" and "my gods" from the crowd!!.

We left shortly after as the schedule looked remarkably rubbish!! calling at Leeds, Multiflight's corporate 733 SX-MTF being parked on their apron. Driving up the A1 we spotted a C130 doing circuits at Leeming so popped in for a look, there were 2 plus a couple of Leuchars Tornado F3's, presumably from the recent Families day.

Thats it, a decent day out and a few photos (below)

TC-SKH B738 SKY AIRLINES	G-VTOP B744 VIRGIN	9V-SWR B77W SINGAPORE A/L	A6-ETD B77W ETIHAD	PH-BGK 737 KLM	A7-AEI 333 QATAR	N722TW 752W DELTA	A6-EDI A388 EMIRATES	A6-EDI A388 EMIRATES	T2 OVERVIEW

On with the log -

MANCHESTER 12/9/10
	G	EZFI	Airbus A319	111	Easyjet	3888
	HB	IPU	Airbus A319	112	Swiss	713
	9H	AEP	Airbus A320	214	Air Malta	3056
	D	AIQP	Airbus A320	211	Lufthansa	346
	F	GJVW	Airbus A320	211	Air France	491
	G	OZBT	Airbus A321	231	Monarch Airlines	3546
	G	OOPH	Airbus A321	211	Thomson Airways	781
	OY	VKF	Airbus A330	243	Thomas Cook Scandinavia	309
	N	278AY	Airbus A330		US Airways	388
	G	TCXA	Airbus A330	243	Thomas Cook Airlines	795
	A7	AEI	Airbus A330	202	Qatar Airways	813
	A6	EDE	Airbus A380	861	Emirates Airlines	017
	EI	SLG	ATR 72	202	Air Contractors	183
	EI	REI	ATR 72	201	Aer Arann	267
	G	COBO	ATR 72	212A	Aurigny Air Services	852
	LN	RPZ	Boeing 737	683	SAS	28293
	TC	SKH	Boeing 737	8BK	Sky Airlines	29644
	PH	BGE	Boeing 737	7K2	KLM Royal Dutch Airlines	30371
	G	FDZE	Boeing 737	8K5	Thomson Airways	35137
	TC	AAH	Boeing 737	82R	Pegasus Airlines	35701
	EI	EBH	Boeing 737	8AS	Ryanair	37526
	PH	BGK	Boeing 737	7K2	KLM Royal Dutch Airlines	38054
	G	VTOP	Boeing 747	4Q8	Virgin Atlantic Airways	28194
	G	VXLG	Boeing 747	41R	Virgin Atlantic Airways	29406
	B	18718	Boeing 747	409F	China Airlines Cargo	30770
	B	HUP	Boeing 747	467F	Cathay Pacific Airways	30805
	G	LSAG	Boeing 757	21B	Jet2	24014
	G	LSAC	Boeing 757	23A	Jet2	25488
	N	19117	Boeing 757	224	Continental Airlines	27559
	N	17126	Boeing 757	224	Continental Airlines	27566
	N	722TW	Boeing 757	231	Delta Airlines	29385
	G	OOBP	Boeing 757	2G5	Thomson Airways	30394
	N	197AN	Boeing 757	223	American Airlines	32391
	N	172AJ	Boeing 757	223	American Airlines	32400
	G	OOBC	Boeing 757	28A	Thomson Airways	33098
	G	TCCB	Boeing 767	31KER	Thomas Cook Airlines	28865
	N	173DZ	Boeing 767	332	Delta Airlines	29692
	9V	SWR	Boeing 777	312ER	Singapore Airlines	34583
	A6	ETD	Boeing 777	3FXER	Etihad Airways	34600
	5A	LAE	Canadair RJ900	NG	Libyan Arab Airlines	15216
	G	JEDN	DHC Dash 8	402	flybe.	4078
	G	ECOO	DHC Dash 8	402	flybe.	4237
	G	ECOP	DHC Dash 8	402	flybe.	4242
	SX	SMS	Douglas DC-9	83	Viking Hellas Aviation	49631
	LN	RMM	Douglas DC-9	81	SAS	53005
	OH	LEE	EMB 170	100ST	Finnair	170-00093
	G	FBEF	EMB 190	200LR	flybe.	190-00104
	M	SAIR	Falcon 900	B		141
	G	RWGW	LJ 45			45-213
	VP	BGS	LJ 60			60-289
	M	OPAL	Pilatus PC-12	47E	G-GYC Ltd	1179
LEEDS 12/9/10
	SX	MTF	Boeing 737	329	Multiflight	23774
	G	LSAA	Boeing 757	236	Jet2	24122
	N	425ST	Cessna 550			550-0709
LEEMING 12/9/10
	ZE	790	Tornado F3
	ZE	838	Tornado F3
	XV	295	C130K Hercules
	ZH	872	C130J Hercules

 

 

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