To the best of my knowledge, the occasions Air Inter have appeared at Luton can be counted on less than the fingers of one hand. A320 F-GJVE visited on 18/7/91, don't have the reason, F-GHQB another A320 on 17/2/92 and F-BUAO an A300 on 19/2/92, the last 2 both football related I think.

https://i.imgur.com/OoBmMx4.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/zXOTnVl.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/gFUxnxN.jpg

Definitely no Mercures. Air Inter were indeed operating flights from Gatwick 1989-1990 (and probably beyond) using A320's.

Not LTN, but LHR, apparently there were several Air Inter substitutions for Air France in the 70's and both Caravelle and the mythical Mercure were pictured at T2.

Seeing the request for a tie up on a flight above made me remember I still have 2 I would like to find out. If I remember correctly we arrived home at some awful hour of the day!! I want to say the outbound was a 757 and inbound was a 737.

Monarch Airlines 03/Aug/1987 EGGW LEPA OM588
Monarch Airlines 17/Aug/1987 LEPA EGGW OM589

Here's hoping someone may be able to help?

Thanks CJ, can't be many types that have never visited. How about the Belfast? Some Soviet types, YAK40 maybe?

Heavylift Belfasts were occasional visitors throughout the 80's and 90's, up to my last record on 3/2/02.

https://i.imgur.com/bXrhZcd.jpg
G-HLFT 12/3/86.

Only YAK-40 I know to have visited was the Polish Government SP-GEA which I recorded on several dates in Sep 1974 (no photo).

Only IL-62 was OK-OBL of CSA which I never saw, some time in the mid- late 90's. Someone sent me a photo, credit unknown:-

https://i.imgur.com/QdN9kSr.jpg?1

Only visit I have of a NAMC YS-11 is P4-GLC which night stopped on 31/5/98. Photo at Sharjah a month later on airliners.net:-
NAMC YS-11A-310(F) - Global Air Cargo | Aviation Photo #1467671 | Airliners.net

Only TU-204 I have recorded is RA-64010, as recently as 15-16/11/18.

UR-DAP visited on at least a couple of occasions, 2008-2010.

Aircraft UR-DAP (1975 Yakovlev Yak-40 C/N 9521241) Photo by GarryLakin (Photo ID: AC484603)

I should have searched my log a bit more thoroughly, forgot this one, 28/6/09 I have it from Le Bourget, out to Karlovy (Czech Republic) on 30/6/09. Didn't see it on 15/5/10.

I performed the push-back on this and then headed over to the hangar for a few pics - think it was 20/04/2005
https://cimg6.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....80c27bc096.jpg

Not the best of pics but we were loading an engine for a Britannia B757, I think? 31/01/2002
https://cimg2.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....95acc55fcd.jpg

Flew on this a few times on the LTN-BRU-LTN
https://cimg2.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....14e2d41aaa.jpg
Forgot this even existed!!
https://cimg1.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....8a7f2fa447.jpg

My logbook says I operated G-BEPS EMA-LTN-VOL on the 15th May 2000. We took a replacement engine and change team for a Monarch B757 that had a birdstrike on takeoff.

When I worked in ops in the 1990's I recall we had a number of weeks of operating LHR-LTN-BRU-LHR (or something similar), in place of the regular Merchantman which had suffered fire damage during a hangar visit.

One Friday evening we got a call for a short notice car parts flight for GM, not unusual except this was empty to Melbourne (via Karachi and Singapore), then back to Luton using the B707 G-HEVY with parts from Holden. A weekend of frantic telephone calls and telexing (remember them?) for overflight permits and dropping slip crews along the route, saw the 707 on final approach to Luton on the Monday morning.......

Date and airline anyone?
https://i.imgur.com/oWdXIBq.jpg

Love these stories from what seem to be much more exciting times for aviation. Maybe that's just Luton, it's always been a place with interesting traffic. Did Heavylift have a Belfast based at LHR?

Another of when was this taken photos?

https://i.imgur.com/99OtOA1.jpg

[QUOTE=LTNman;10494194]Another of when was this taken photos?

I recorded Heavylift IL76 RA-76401 many times between 26/11/96 and 5/3/97, but the photo looks like it was taken in the summer (green leaves on trees). RA-76842 I then recorded several times 7/11/97 to 15/4/98. The only record I have of their IL76's during summer is RA-76401 on 16/9/97. None of my sightings included Belfast G-BEPS on the same day as an IL-76. So no useful answer from me - some time between 1996 and 1998.....

The Air Bridge / Hunting service BCS412 operated LTN-LHR (ferry, STD 2015 I think) then LHR-BRU, returning to LTN as the BCS411 at 0355 (BCS=Eurotrans callsign, operating for DHL). Sun-Fri inclusive from memory. So when the Belfast substituted for the Merchantman it would have day stopped LTN rather than LHR.

I would put money on this being RA-76758, as it has the Oil Spill Service Centre titles. It was the first IL76 we got.....

Cheers, cj. Excellent knowledge of all things LTN, as always :)

Well that may have helped. This was CCCP-76758 on 19/5/92, parked in the same place as the earlier photo.

https://i.imgur.com/RzSVYHE.jpg

It had gone by the next day, replaced by this:-

https://i.imgur.com/HhGP4aF.jpg
YU-AMC 20/5/92.

European Cup final Barcelona versus Sampdoria, 70+ extra flights over 3 days....:eek:

Back in the days when the airport encouraged spectators. Not sure when this was taken but the low fence is seen with a new high fence in front of it.
https://i.imgur.com/ZeGEog0.jpg