The days before and after the Thanksgiving holiday are among the busiest travel days in the US. Several of Neptune Aviation Services‘s BAe 146 air tankers joined the rush, heading home to their home base at Missoula after being released from their contracts on 20 November. Tanker 03 (msn E2192) […]
Jota Aviation placed its second BAe 1460-300QT freighter into service. G-JOTF (msn E3186) flew from Southend to Lyon on 22 November, returning the following morning. She then departed again, this time to Liverpool. In the meantime, sistership G-JOTE (msn E3182) was ferried to Hannover on 20 November, then operated a […]
Cobham Aviation Services has received extensions of two of its fly-in/fly-out (FIFO) mining industry support contracts. Oz Minerals has contracted for Cobham to increase its services between Adelaide and the Carrapateena copper-gold project in South Australia’s far north from the current four flights a week to fourteen, using Avro RJ100s. […]
WDL Aviation placed its first BAe 146-300QT freighter into service on 20 November. D-AJAM (msn E3150) flew from Paderborn to Vitoria as WH 410. Early the next morning, she then flew from Vitoria to Châlons Vatry Airport as WH 430, before returning home to Köln. WDL has acquired three former […]
No less than six of Neptune Aviation Services‘s BAe 146 air tankers are now in California helping to fight raging forest fires. Tankers 03 (msn E2192), 12 (msn E2196), and 41 (msn E2136) had left Missoula for California on 8 November. They have since been joined by Tankers 02 (msn […]
Cobham Aviation Services Avro RJ100 VH-NJP (msn E3354) experienced a fire in her number four engine on 6 November, shortly after departing Perth, on flight JTE 1990 to Barrow Island. The crew shut down the engine and returned to Perth, making an uneventful landing at 6:45 local time. Cobham operates […]
Chile’s Aerovías DAP put a second Avro RJ100 into service in mid October. RJ100 CC-ATI (msn E3339 ex HB-IYY/T7-IYY) is one of three former Swiss RJ100s that DAP acquired through lessor Tronos in 2016-17. RJ100 CC-ARN (msn E3280, ex T7-IXS) entered service in late 2017, but the others encountered paperwork difficulties. […]
Neptune Aviation Services has dispatched several of its BAe 146 air tankers to California to help fight forest fires raging in the northern part of the state. Tankers 03 (msn E2192), 12 (msn E2196), and 41 (msn E2136) left Missoula for California on 8 November, and others may follow. Neptune’s […]
Jota Aviation has operated several more cargo charters using BAe 146-300QT G-JOTE (msn E3182). She had operated her first “go-now” charter on 18 October, flying a shipment of automotive parts from Poznan to Liverpool. She found additional work at the end of the month, flying from Southend to Bratislava and […]
Bolivia’s EcoJet sent Avro RJ85 CP-3082 (msn E2292) to Lima for a C Check. She arrived in Lima on 3 October, then returned to Cochabamba on 6 November. She returned to service on 8 November, flying a typically frenetic EcoJet schedule: Cochabamba – Santa Cruz – Trinidad – Riberalta – Trinidad […]
