An225 Pik
 

Was in PIK this morning saw the AN225 land unscheduled.

Any reason as I think this may be the first time in PIK

FM :D

she would have come from JFK (confirmed as sighted there), en route to iraq (unconfirmed).

wasa diversion from shannon - KPIKO3 posted this in Airlines, Airports and Routes: http://www.pprune.org/forums/showthr...hreadid=102491

An225
 

Departed EGPK for UKKM = Hostomel , in Ukraine

An 225 at PIK
 

Departed at 7.15am

How infuriating! I live in Prestwick and normally at 7.15 I'd be up getting ready to leave for work, and might have seen it. Trouble is, on Mondays I always have a lie in until 8.00....

Does anyone know of other occasions when it has landed in the UK ?

It has landed at Farnbourgh but apart from that Prestwick is the only commercial airport in the U.K that the beast has been.
Here`s a link to some pictures of it at Prestwick.

http://www.egpk.com

Cheers
Kpiko3

Rumour has it she's back in PIK this week :ok:

Anyone confirm this??

FM

She might be coming back? Oh please.....

She even made it to a piece and a photograph in the Local newspaper today, if she comes back I have to see it.

Kpiko3, thanks for the photographs. I take it you got them on the Monday morning? I particularly like the shot of the An -225 and the Ryanair 737. It looks like the Antonov is about to have it for breakfast.

Douglas

Kpiko3 sorry to have to shoot down your claim, but the Mriya came to STN back in the early nineties - don't have the exact details at hand, but I do remember seeing her myself.

She's back in Prestwick tonight, from Rome. Scheduled around 19.30 (after dark...). I'm not quite sure when she's leaving. Hopefully at a respectable time tomorrow.:D

An-225
 

Thanks Visual Strip!

17.30 will be darkish depending on the cloud cover, but still well worth a trip to see her. Of course it helps living in Prestwick itself, so it's not exactly a long trip.

Think i'll make an early start for work tomorrow morning and hope to see her on the ground.

Douglas

Sunset at PIK is 19:16 local. Official 'night' is 19:46.

She is scheduled to go 13:42pm to JFK tommorrow.

Kpiko3

Running a bit late inbound. Arrving in Prestwick around 2330 LT:zzz:

Landed approx 23.05 Local.

Flight planned departure at 0930 Local.

Well there she was this morning, sitting on the tarmac looking wonderful. There was quite a few people around even at 7.30 this morning, but how often does the world's largest aircraft arrive in your town!?

I'm glad I only hung around until 8.10 last night given that it arrived at 23.05.

Thanks to all for posting about her, and allowing me to see her!

Douglas

It departed today around 16:00,very late.
Prestwick was very,very busy today with spectators to see it,even i couldnt see past the crowd:-)


Well I could but barely.

kpiko

An225
 

Departed 1554 local

IT WENT TO JFK
 

Anyone know where it was going after JFK ???