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AIRLINE NEWS
*Aer Lingus A21N EI-XLV (12248) made its first flight today as D-AZXD.
*Air Anka A332 TC-NYB (597) ferried from Antalya to Jeddah on 22/4 for lease to flyadeal.
*Air Urga SF34B UR-ELJ (259) ferried from Entebbe to Addis Ababa on 23/4, on to Ostrava via Dalaman yesterday & finally to Orebro today after UN operations.
*Amerijet International. Adding to 20/4, B763F 5Y-SVR (24146/231 ex N316CM) arrived at Edinburgh this morning from Opa-Locka & is due to continue its delivery flight to Nairobi for Astral Aviation in the very early hours of tomorrow morning.? ?
*Ascend A/W B38M G-CRUX (44863/7085) ferried from Luton to East Midlands yesterday after lease to Wizz Air UK & then to Gatwick this evening. It is due to depart to Freetown tomorrow on a proving flight for Air Sierra Leone retuning to Gatwick the following day.
*ASL A/L Ireland A306F EI-DGU (557) was registered D-AZMQ yesterday at Leipzig for EAT Leipzig.
*Avion Express Malta A320 9H-GKK (6865) ferried from Monterrey to Keflavik via Dorval yesterday & continued to Rijeka today after lease to VivaAerobus or just for work. A321F 9H-CGJ (1713), which had been parked at Budapest since 17/8, ferried to Karlovy Vary yesterday.
*British A/W A319 G-EUOA (1513), the oldest example in the fleet, ferried from LHR to St Athan today for scrapping.
*CityJet CRJ9 EI-HSE (15008) entered service with SAS yesterday.
*Electra A/W A320 LZ-EAH (2930) ferried from Tel Aviv to Varna on 22/4 after lease to Arkia (as well as LZ-EAB mentioned yesterday).
*Kuwait A/W. Correcting my error yesterday, 9K-APK is an A339 not an A359.
*Oman Air A333 A4O-DJ (1599), which was withdrawn from service at Doha on 31/1, was registered A7-AER yesterday for Qatar A/W.
*Royal Jordanian. Another slip of the finger yesterday ¨C A20N JY-RAG is c/n 12508 not 12598.
*TUI A/W. As expected, B738s G-TAWC (39922/3925) & G-TAWD (37265/3939) were restored to the register yesterday.
*United A/L B789 N23994 (68622/1231) made its first flight today.
*Wizz Air A21N HA-LGV (12575) made its first flight today as D-AVXV.
MILITARY TRANSPORT NEWS
None today
AND FINALLY
Adding to yesterday, Lear 45 G-USHA? (45-535) has become 2-ONEL.
GATWICK NEWS
A blank day as regards first visits.
Slightly out of the ordinary were the Ruler of Sharjah¡¯s A320CJ A6-SHJ making one of its occasional visits this afternoon from Sharjah to Farnborough & HiFly Malta A343 9H-TQZ, which arrived late afternoon from Accra & is due to depart to Beja tomorrow.
CREDITS
Bulldog, Michael Lochrie, Paul Clark, Chris Mowles, Mr Anon, Skyliner, Jethro, ATDB, the Finkenwerder website, AIB Family Flights, Ch-aviation, Scramble, LAAS, Andrew Stewart, Lynda Gosling, Dave Richardson, Planespotters.net, SeanM1997, Al Pacino, other contributors who wish to remain anonymous & anybody else that I have forgotten.
STAY SAFE!
John
