September 2011

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N°61-62 August - September 2011

Boeing Factory, Paine Field, Seattle (Mike MORO)

Cargolux 747-8F delivery 2 Currently the rumor activity here in

Malmö Aviation Avro 2 Luxembourg is very high again. A couple of day ago Cargolux confirmed that the first Denim Fokker 50 2 Cargolux Boeing 747-8F will be delivered on SunExpress 3 19 th September 2011 at Paine Field, Seattle.

National McDonnell Douglas DC-8 3 It seems that Cargolux plans to officially show Fairchild Metro 3 their first aircrafts on 23rd September to the

Aero-Charter Antonov An-12 3 press, maybe also to the “common” public. (Source: Newspaper Luxemburg) Latest Atlas Air Boeing 747 4 Turkish Stars C-160D 4 The first aircraft, LX-VCB (City of Esch-Alzette), will arrive in Luxembourg on 20th September. The second aircraft, LX-VCD (City of Luxembourg), will be SunAdria Fokker 100 4 delivered 2 days later. LX-VCC (City of Ettelbruck) will join the fleet in October. Le Bourget Air Show 2011 4 Video & Photos of the first flight: Paine Field Blog Seattle Paine Field 8 Luxembourg Movements 10

Malmö Aviation flight to Luxembourg

On 6th July 2011, Malmö Aviation operated a passenger flight during the morning hours to Luxembourg using their BAe Avro 146 RJ-100, SE-DSS.

SCHMIT © Claude

Estonian Hawker Denim Air Fokker 50

In Luxembourg we do get a lot of business traffic as on The Fokker 50 aircraft has become quite rare here in 19th July a nice Estonian Hawker 750, ES-PHR. Luxembourg, except VLM Airlines. On 19th July we got this 10 year old Denim Air Fokker 50, PH-JXJ.

- 2 - SunExpress “Impressions of Istanbul”

Again on 19th July, SunExpress send us, on their regular evening flight to Antalya (XQ273), this colored Boeing 737- 800, TC-SUZ, wearing “Impressions of Istanbul” titles.

Air Bridge Cargo National Airlines McDonnell Douglas DC-8

Air Bridge Cargo is a common visitor here in It’s been some time that we last saw a DC-8 here in Luxembourg. On 20th July the Boeing 747-400, VQ-BFX, Luxembourg. On 27th July National Airlines operated a was seen being towed to Parking P7. cargo flight with their 42-years old DC-8-63CF, N865F.

Fairchild N577MX Aero-Charter Airlines

On 14th August this Fairchild Swearingen SA227-AT, On regular base we see Aero-Charter Airlines arriving N577MX, arrived in Luxembourg. It was built in 1983 with one of their Antonov An-12. On 20th August they and operated for Worldwide aircrafts since 18.07.2011. used UR-DWI.

BAKEMA © Peter BINDER © Ray

- 3 - Latest Atlas Air Boeing 747 Turkish Stars

On 31st August the latest acquisition of Atlas Air was On 29th August the well known Turkish Air Force C- seen in Luxembourg. N459MC, A Boeing 747-400 was 160D in the Turkish Stars Demo Team, 69-033, colors added to the fleet in May 2011 arrived in Luxembourg for a short stop.

SunAdria (Trade Air) Fokker 100

Trade Air operated several flights throughout the last years to Luxembourg. On 26th August 9A-BTD, a Fokker 100 in SunAdria colors, arrived and after a night stop it departed again to Venice.

SCHMIT © Claude

Paris Air Show 2011 (Text & Photos by Serge BRAUN, Claude SCHMIT)

From 20-26th of June 2011, the 49th Paris Air Show took place at the airport LE BOURGET near Paris. Every two years, this greatest and worldwide best known Air Show gives all visitors an impression of the newest high tech developments in aviation an space business. This year, 2113 exhibitors from 45 countries had shown their newest products to the public. 140 aircrafts and helicopters could be seen on the static display and every day about 40 of them participated on the traditional air show. The most interesting planes were surely the A400M, the A380, the Boeing 747-8 (Pax and Cargo), the Boeing 787, the Casa CN295 AWACS and a lot of other amazing 'flying objects'...! F-AZTE – DC-3 C47A - AF Dakota & Compagnie

The following pictures have been taken at LE BOURGET during 19-22 June 2011 by Serge Braun and Claude Schmit. Enjoy the pictures and looking forward to the next SALON INTERNATIONAL DE L'AERONAUTIQUE ET DE L'ESPACE in June 2013.

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N787BA - Boeing 787 Dreamliner - Boeing D-CNEU - Dornier Do-228 NG - RUAG

F-WWDD - Airbus A380-861 - Airbus F-WKVB - ATR-72-600 – AZUL 30 years ATR Turboprop Sticker

60025 - C.5M Super Galaxy - USAF 97005 - Sukhoi Super Jet 100 - Sukhoi

F-BUAD - Aisbus A300-B2-103 - CNES Novespace 21512 - Beriev-Be200CHS - Russia Ministry of Emergency Situation

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78614 - Lockheed C130J - USAF HB-RSC - Super Connie - Breitling

UR-NTN - Antonov AN-158 - Antonov SE-LRA - Saab 2000 - SAAB

HB-SIA - Solarimpulse F-WWAZ - Airbus A380-861 - Korean Air

F-WWMS - Airbus A400 Grizzly 3 - Airbus Military N6067E - Boeing 747-8JK Intercontinantal - Boeing

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EC-JAT - Air Tractor AT-802AF - Private 9H-AFL - Airbus A318-112 ELITE CJ - Comlux

EC-295 - CN-295 AEW - Sasa A7-BBH - Boeing 777-2DZLR - Qatar

62127 - C27J Spartan N50217 – Boeing 747-8KZF / SCD - Boeing

- 7 - Seattle Boeing Factory – Paine Field (Text & Photos by Mike MORO)

During my Summer holiday to Canada I was able to organize a little trip to the Seattle Boeing Factory / Paine Field. After almost 2 hours at the border explaining that we’re just crossing to the US for a one day visit to the Boeing Factory we finally made it (is that so weird?).

We took a tour through the factory itself, were unfortunately absolutely no camera, phone, etc... were allowed. But for all those interested the tour is great. It’s a little bit too touristic for my taste but the inside view of the production line is extraordinary. After the tour we stayed for some time at the terrace at the Future of Flight Building. A fantastic view over the whole flight line. That airport is so stuffed with aircrafts, there’s almost no free parking place left.

The factory is the largest building in the world by volume at 13’385’378 m3 and covers 399’480 m2. Imagine a building so big, the doors are the size of a football field (and there are 6 of them). A ceiling 11 stories high, and with that surface under its roof gives enough room for 74 football fields, or all of the Disneyland Magic Kingdom theme park (along with 48’000 m2 of covered parking). Picture it with over a million light fixtures producing an $18 million annual electricity bill,

The factory infrastructure is absolutely impressive. About 30’000 people work at the factory. The site includes 19 restaurants, a fire brigade, shops, a nursery, etc… The maintenance corridors underground are long enough to permit the employees to do some jogging during their time off.

- 8 - 30’000 employees work in 8 hour shifts, 24 hours a day, 5 days a week. The weekend is normally off, except if special work needs to be done. A normal shift change, takes about 2 hours, because the number of people going in and out would overload the highways and roads around the airport. Therefore Boeing introduced a shuttle system to bring employees in and out reducing traffic flow.

The huge flight line at Paine Field

(to see the complete full resolution photo go to : http://www.mikemoro.de/photos/Everett_Panorama_small.jpg)

2 of the famous Dreamlifters were also present as well as an ANA 787 in the new ANA color scheme.

And another view of the flight line:

- 9 - Luxembourg's Logbook: Passenger and Cargo Visitors

01.07.2011 B-18722 China Airlines Cargo Boeing 747-400 D-FCAE Private Cessna 208B Grand Caravan I-BPAE Blue Panorama Piaggio P-180 Avanti 02.07.2011 CE-03 Air Force – Belgium Embraer ERJ-145 B-2082 China Cargo Boeing 777 B-2423 Jade Cargo Boeing 747-400 D-ABBK Air Berlin Boeing 737-800 TS-IOJ Tunisair Boeing 737-500 VH-CQK Private Gippsaero GA-8 TC-320 03.07.2011 TF-ARJ Air Atlanta Cargo Boeing 747-200 UR-CAG Meridian Antonov An-12 04.07.2011 B-LRH Private Bombardier BD-700-1A11 Global 5000 B-HVP Private Gulfstream GV-SP 05.07.2011 TC-SUG Sun Express Boeing 737-800 06.07.2011 SE-DSS Malmo Aviation BAe Avro RJ-100 VH-CRW Sydney Jet Charter Dassault Falcon 2000EX 08.07.2011 B-2082 China Cargo Boeing 777 LX-WAN West Air BAe ATP 09.07.2011 B-2421 Jade Cargo Boeing 747-400 B-2437 Yangtze River Express Boeing 747-400 10.07.2011 ET-AND Ethiopian Airlines Cargo McDonnell Douglas MD-11 UR-CAK Meridian Antonov An-12 11.07.2011 F-HKIS Corsair Boeing 747-400 12.07.2011 LX-JET Private Cessna 525B CitationJet CJ3 13.07.2011 LX-STB Strategic Airbus A320-200 14.07.2011 CS-DSA NetJets Dassault Falcon 7X 15.07.2011 CM-01 Air Force – Belgium Dassault Falcon 20E TC-MJA Private Bombardier BD-700-1A11 Global 5000 16.07.2011 N458MC Atlas Air Boeing 747-400 N860AA Private Gulfstream V B-2423 Jade Cargo Boeing 747-400 17.07.2011 G-EUXI British Airways Airbus A321-200 18.07.2011 258 Irish Air Corps Learjet 45 ET-AND Ethiopian Airlines Cargo McDonnell Douglas MD-11 F-HLOV Corsair Boeing 747-400 G-BYHG City Jet Dornier Do-328 LX-AMB Global Jet Dassault Falcon 7X ZS-AOL Anglo American Gulfstream G-V 19.07.2011 CD-01 Air Force – Belgium Dassault Mystere Falcon 900B TC-SUZ Sun Express Boeing 737-800 20.07.2011 69-031 Air Force – Turkey Transall C-160D F-HLOV Corsair Boeing 747-400 21.07.2011 VQ-BFX Air Bridge Cargo Boeing 747-400 23.07.2011 B-2421 Jade Cargo Boeing 747-400 D-ABBB Air Berlin Boeing 737-800 N458MC Atlas Air Boeing 747-400 TS-IOQ Tunisair Boeing 737-500 UR-DWF Meridian Antonov An-12 24.07.2011 B-2082 China Cargo Boeing 777 ET-AML Ethiopian Airlines Cargo McDonnell Douglas MD-11 25.07.2011 G-BUUR Atlantic Airlines BAe ATP LX-DSP Private Dassault Falcon 900EX N412MC Atlas Air Cargo Boeing 747-400 27.07.2011 N865F National McDonnell Douglas DC8-63CF SX-DMD Sky Wings BAe Avro RJ-100

- 10 - 28.07.2011 HB-IEE Privatair Boeing 757-200

N383WA World Cargo McDonnell Douglas MD-11 31.07.2011 UR-CGX Shovkoviy Shlyah Antonov An-12 02.08.2011 N490EV Evergreen Boeing 747-200 UR-CCP Aerovis Airlines Antonov An-12 03.08.2011 B-2083 China Cargo Boeing 777

04.08.2011 M-VBBQ Private Raytheon 390 Premier 1A

06.08.2011 LX-RLG Global Jet Embraer ERJ-135BJ 07.082011 B-2422 Jade Cargo Boeing 747-400 HB-IJO Swiss International Airlines Airbus A320-200 08.08.2011 F-HSEX Corsair Boeing 747-400 09.08.2011 D-BADC Aero Dienst Dornier Do-328-300

N355MC Atlas Air Cargo Boeing 747-300 13.08.2011 TF-SIF Coast Guard – Iceland DHC-8-314 14.08.2011 N577MX Private Fairchild Swearingen SA227-AT 18.08.2011 LX-JET Private Cessna 525B CitationJet CJ3 19.08.2011 F-GLPT Airlec Air Espace Swearingen SA-226T Merlin 3B 22.08.2011 OY-KBP Scandinavian Airlines SAS Airbus A319-100

23.08.2011 LN-ROX Scandinavian Airlines SAS McDonnell Douglas MD-82 25.08.2011 N459MC Atlas Air Cargo Boeing 747-400 26.08.2011 9A-BTD Sun Adria Fokker 100 28.08.2011 HB-ZUV Swiss Jet Agusta Westland AW-139 29.08.2011 69-033 Air Force – Turkey (Turkish Stars) Transall C-160D

F-GTUI Corsair Boeing 747-400 30.08.2011 D-ABDB Air Berlin Airbus A320-200 TC-SNO Sun Express Boeing 737-800 31.08.2011 LX-WAF West Air BAe ATP YR-BGR Tarom Boeing 737-800

Editor: Mike MORO Luxembourg Avaition Photography

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