GATWICK ROUNDUP 29-06-11

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John Dyer Posted: Wed, Jun 29 2011 8:49 PM

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VISITORS
A pair of A320s made their first visits today. Donbassaero example UR-DAK (0662 ex VH-HYT, F-WQSE, ER-AXW, N662AR, EC-KIK, N662WF, F-WTAU) arrived at lunchtime on the Aerosvit service from Kiev, while another easyJet delivery this afternoon was G-EZUJ (4740) from Finkenwerder, which then operated a Chania rotation.

FLEET NEWS
EasyJet A320 G-EZUJ (4740) was delivered from Finkenwerder to Gatwick today. A319 G-EZGO (4785) made its first flight yesterday as D-AVYW. Luckily nobody seems to have noticed my bad maths yesterday - the carrier has a further 36 (not 37) A320s to be delivered.
Emirates B773 A6-EGD (38988) made its first flight yesterday.
Norwegian Air Shuttle B733 LN-KKT (27336) was ferried from Shannon to Lasham yesterday after painting all white.

ROUTE NEWS
None today.

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS
Still one day of June to go, but circumstances dictate that I must take my look back at the month today. As of now, we have seen 52 first visits during the month, up 12 on last June. This takes the total at the end of 2Q12 to 325, which compares very favourably to 277 by this time last year. June's total (so far) breaks down to 40 airliners, 10 biz jets & a pair of biz turbos. The total will increase by one biz jet if the expected Swiss Gulfstream 450 turns up tomorrow.
Among our regular airlines, newcomers included three more new easyJets (one A319 & two A320s), eight Air Berlins (two A320s & six B738s), two Norwegian Air Shuttle B738s plus a Jet Time B733 & B734 operating on their behalf, two Pegasus B738s &, operating for Aerosvit, a Donbassaero A320 & Wind Rose A321. Other odds & ends from our usual carriers were an Aer Lingus A320, Fly Hellas A320, Thomsonfly B738, SAS B738 & Air Europa E195. A few subs included a VIA A320 & Corendon Dutch A/L B738 both for Tor Air, the latest Air Finland B752 for Strategic A/L & a Bulgarian Air Charter MD82 for Bulgaria Air. Al-Naser A/L showed us their own B734, while various one-offs included a Kingfisher A330 on diversion from LHR, Georgian A/W B735, Travel Service Hungary B738 & an Atlantic A/W B462. Sun Country provided a pair of new B738s on their seasonal Minneapolis service & Star Air have so far sent us two B762Fs on what is a new, if temporary, freight flight.
The only new executive airliner was E135BJ D-ARTN, but three surprise military visitors were an Army Air Corps Defender & two French A/F TBM700s. Among the ten biz jets, Citation 560XLS EC-KPB & Gulfstream 5 HZ-MS5A are the only two that catch the eye.

The Royal Air Force Museum has recently launched an appeal for members of the public to donate their unwanted military & aviation books & magazines to the Museum's shop. All donations will be examined by Museum staff, with any items that are of particular historic importance retained by the Museum for its archives - whilst those publications such as authorized biographies, aviation periodicals, historical novels, old aircraft magazines will be sold on to raise money for the Museum.

Gulfstream 550 G-GRZD (5315) was registered to TAG Aviation yesterday.

Due tomorrow:
HB-JGB Gulf 4 eta 17.00 (first visit)
OY-SRO B762F on SRR6977 assuming it continues to route via Gatwick
And some NAX flights - NAX14X/LN-KKO (also NAX18Z), NAX34G/LN-NOJ, NAX55YB/LN-NOV, NAX59ZA/LN-NOI, NAX351L/LN-NOD, NAX510G/LN-NOS, NAX512C/LN-NOI, NAX512J/LN-NOS, NAX1302/LN-DYA, NAX1306 LN-KHA (also NAX1310), NAX3522/LN-DYF, NAX5818/LN-DYK
Before anyone asks me, I haven't a clue what NAX are up to with their flight numbers.
Very early warning for 4/7 - Turkmenistan A/L B737 EZ-A007 eta 06.55 as TUA3207, etd 09.20 the same day (one for me to miss!).

THE NEXT ROUNDUP WILL APPEAR ON 12/7

CREDITS   
Malcolm Baldry, Paul Giblin, the Stig, John Creasey, Colin Jones, Darren Matthews, Alan Edwards, Dave Broome, Tom Singfield, Neil Barnes, Mr Anon, Jethro, Skyliner, ATDB, Natasha Richardson & anybody else that I have forgotten.

Happy spotting!
John (& my cat Mad Max)  
http://www.flightglobal.com/airspace/blogs/john_dyer/default.aspx

MOVEMENT HIGHLIGHTS
AIRLINERS
ADR50L A320 S5-AAS
AEA1013 E195 EC-LKX
AEA1015 B738 EC-KCG
AEW225 A320 UR-DAK (first visit)
AMC116 A319 9H-AEH
AUI501 B733 UR-GAH
AWE732 A333 N275AY
BER8596 B737 D-AHIA (also BER8598)
BER8602 B737 D-AHXF
BER8604 A320 D-ABDY
BRU851 B735 EW-253PA
BTI651 B733 YL-BBI
CIM4661 CRJ2 OY-RJG (also CIM4663)
CIM4665 delayed to 22.30
CUB400 Il96 CU-T1250
DAL12 B763 N197DN
EIN23A A320 EI-DEB
EIN232 A320 EI-DVG (also EIN236/244)
EIN248 delayed to 22.25
ELL103 B735 ES-ABL
EZS8463 A319 HB-JZV
EZS8475 A319 G-EZBZ
EZS8481 A319 HB-JZI
EZS8530 A319 HB-JZQ
EYZ8001 A320 G-EZUJ (delivery/first visit)
ISS355 A319 EI-DEZ (also ISS351)
MAH612 B737 HA-LOP
MAH614 B737 HA-LOI
MGX712 F100 4O-AOP
NAX55YB B738 LN-NOL
NAX59ZA B738 LN-NOF
NAX1302 B738 LN-NOR (aircraft change from the predicted LN-DYS)
NAX1306 B738 LN-NOQ (also NAX1310)
NAX1318 B733 LN-KKO
NAX1336 B733 LN-KKW
NAX3510 B738 LN-NOS (also NAX3512)
NAX3516 B738 LN-NOT
NAX4451 B738 LN-NOX
NAX5818 B738 LN-DYK
OAI192 delayed to 00.30 tomorrow
OAI328 B733 ES-LBD
RAM672S B734 CN-RND
RYR5FE B738 EI-DPV
RYR6NF B738 EI-DHO (also RYR1ZR/2MU/5ZG)
RYR27AH B738 EI-DYK
RYR27GJ B738 EI-DWO
RYR57HB B738 EI-DPI
RYR64BZ B738 EI-DHK
RYR1397 B738 EI-DWJ
RYR2747 B738 EI-DYL
RYR5301 B738 EI-DCW
RYR7728 B738 EI-EBA
SDM297 A319 VQ-BAR
SRR6977 B762F OY-SRL (second visit)
STU2253 A320 LX-STB (also STU2375)
SWG200 B763 CS-TFS
SWT3353 MD83 EC-JUG (from Bilbao, etd 21.35 as SWT339P)
TAP332 F100 CS-TPD
TAP334 A319 CS-TTB
TAP342 A319 CS-TTP
TAP346 A319 CS-TTM
TSC202 A332 C-GTSN
TSC222 A333 C-GTSO
UAE009 B773 A6-EBU
UAE011 B773 A6-EMS
UAE015 B773 A6-EBB
VKH877 A320 SX-SMV
VKH1335 A320 SX-SMT
 
GA & OTHER MOVEMENTS
A6-ESH A319CJ (arr 26/6)
CS-DKK Gulf 550 (arr 26/6, dep today as NJE400D)
CS-DSA DA7X (NJE224D, dep as NJE872G)
VP-BLW Gulf 550 (reg as callsign, second visit)
ZS-AOL Gulf 5 (arr 24/6)
Due later is HS125 CS-DRU eta 23.20 as NJE380E