Australia’s Cobham Aviation Services has placed Avro RJ100 VH-NJE (msn E3384) into service. She had been delivered in January, but required maintenance before she could enter service. After a flight test from Adelaide on 18 March, she was positioned to Perth later that day. Her first service was on Cobham’s […]
CityJet‘s contract to operate several flights on behalf of KLM Cityhopper has come to an end. The contract initially called for CityJet to operate two Avro RJ85s on KLM Cityhopper routes to London City and to other European destinations. This was reduced to a single aircraft as KLM Cityhopper’s own Embraer […]
Royal Air Avro RJ100 RP-C8962 (msn E3259) operated the inaugural flight into the new Cagayan North International Airport (CNIA) in Lal-lo, in Cagayan Province in northern Luzon, on 23 March. RP-C8962 brought 60 Chinese passengers on a charter flight from Macau. Because the Lal-lo airport does not yet have an […]
For the fourth time this year, a BAe 146 has been delivered to Australia. The newest acquisition is BAe 146-300QT EC-MCL (msn E3154), which has been acquired by Cobham Aviation Services (who outbid Pionair for her). She is the first 146QT to leave the fleet of ASL Airlines Spain, which […]
Iran’s Qeshm Airlines has acquired the former Starbow Avro RJ100 M-NONA (msn E3332 ex 9G-SBE) as EP-FQZ. She had been stored at Malta Luqa since late November 2017, after Starbow suspended services. Painted all white and wearing her Iranian registration, she departed Malta for Tehran on 16 March. Qeshm’s fleet […]
Conair Avro RJ85 air tanker C-GFVK/Tanker 391 (msn E2268) has returned home to Canada after completing its fire-fighting duties in Australia during the southern summer. She departed Avalon on 12 March, arriving back at Conair’s base at Abbotsford, British Columbia, on 14 March. During her stay, Tanker 391 conducted operations for Vic Emergency, […]
Air Spray displayed its newly converted BAe 146 air tanker at the Aerial Firefighting Conference at Sacramento McClellan Airport on 12 March. Air Spray acquired N907AS/Tanker 170 (msn E2156) from StarPerú in 2013. She made her first flight as a tanker in August 2017. She still needs to pass a […]
Neptune Aviation Services has placed its newest BAe 146 air tanker into service. The company procured the former Daallo Airlines 146-200 LZ-DAL (msn E2074) in November 2016, and converted it to air tanker configuration at its Missoula base. She left Missoula on 9 March to begin her contract with the […]
Aviro Air BAe 146-300 YR-AVR (msn E3193) stepped in to cover for Astra Airlines 146-300 SX-DIZ (msn E3206) on the routes the latter is operating for Sweden’s NextJet. SX-DIZ has been flying NextJet’s twice daily service from Stockholm Arlanda to Örnsköldsvik and on to Gällivare, in northern Sweden, since 8 January. […]
Filipino BAe 146 operator SkyJet has acquired another example of the type from Peru’s StarPerú. SkyJet had already acquired StarPerú’s OB-1885-P (msn E2087) as RP-C3855 in late 2016. Now it has added OB-1930-P (msn E2201) as RP-C6358. OB-1930-P had been idle for some time at Lima. Painted all white and […]
