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Old 7th Oct 2006, 12:04
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Hello!

Whilst passing through Cov on 5/10/06 I noticed these 2, but coudn't get the reg's. Could somebody help?

Cirrus Dash 8

Blue & White Metro

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By Cov, I presume you mean Coventry (or could it be Covilha in Portugal which has the IATA code of COV?), it does help if you use the full name of a place on a Forum like this!

Presuming you mean Coventry (CVT/EGBE):-

The RUS DHC8 was DBOBU, it had arrived with the German U21 football team.

The Metro may have been BinAir's DCBIN which was present during the day. A picture can be found at:-

http://www.airliners.net/open.file/0878981/M/

DHC6 CGKBR was also present Thursday arriving late morning & parking on the North Apron.

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Fried Chicken,

Yes I meant Coventry, and thanks for the info, much appreciated!

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Coventry Questions

Can anyone please tell me the operator who operates inbound to Coventry c. 20.30 with F 27s. Call sign sounds liKe Blue Stripe.


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Originally Posted by 22/04
Can anyone please tell me the operator who operates inbound to Coventry c. 20.30 with F 27s. Call sign sounds liKe Blue Stripe.
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Is either Farnair (do they use a WDL aircraft though?)


or MNG (Turkey) on mail ops.
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Could you be hearing 'Black Sea' which is MNG's callsign.
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Its Farnair Europe, based at Coventry, departs mid afternoon and returns around 9pm each day. They also have an ATR-42F Based

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Farnair Europe, callsign "Blue Strip", ICAO code FAH. They're currently using ATR42 HB-AFC & Fk27 HA-FAC from Coventry

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Do Farnair operate charters or scheduled flights out of CVT?
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Originally Posted by airhumberside
Do Farnair operate charters or scheduled flights out of CVT?
the aircraft are used for the scheduled ParcelForce contract flights during the night & are available for ad-hoc cargo charters during the day

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Originally Posted by Fried_Chicken
the aircraft are used for the scheduled ParcelForce contract flights during the night & are available for ad-hoc cargo charters during the day
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They also fly in from EHEH and EDDH in the evening on contracts.

I wouldn't say they were available for charters in the day - maybe at weekends occasionally.
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Farnair is always available for cargo and passenger ad-hoc flights 24/7 if aircraft and crew are available.

ATR 42/72 and fokker 27.

The problem is that ups are using most cargo aircraft for night cargo ops from eddk but during the day aircraft are available.
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Originally Posted by vipatr
Farnair is always available for cargo and passenger ad-hoc flights 24/7 if aircraft and crew are available.
ATR 42/72 and fokker 27.
The problem is that ups are using most cargo aircraft for night cargo ops from eddk but during the day aircraft are available.

Exactly - and they rarely have crew available at CVT to do ad-hoc work before their contracted weekday evening flights.
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Thanks everyone.
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Electra at CVT on 28/10

Anyone know what the OE- registered Electra was doing at CVT on Saturday flying on a BFL flight number to Keflavik?

Cargo flight over the atlantic, ferry flight to a new owner, aircraft retiring???
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On its way to Canada to be converted into a water bomber. The other electra in the Amerer air fleet passed through in the summer.
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Does that mean Amerer have no more left now, and it is only NPT operating them in Europe?
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Certainly does, but then they specialise in being different!
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it arrived from Linz on Friday as BFL1027 to nightstop

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Visitor to CVT

The Hapag Lloyd 737-800 (D-AHLQ) landed at Coventry last night. Looked really nice and tidy and soo much larger than its Thompsonfly brothers and sisters (G-THOD etc)

Wondering if Thompsonfly are going to use it regularly or was it becomes one of the 4 smaller 737's had gone tech somewhere.

Does anyone know if Coventry can handle fully laden '800's lanidng wise or is (landing and braking) performance as good as the 737-500's ?
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