An An-12 of Cavok Airlines just flew over my house (Basingtsoke) at 24,000ft from Barcelona and heading pretty much due north.

Destined for EMA, for a change I believe. They are far rarer beasts on this side of the Midlands.

Ah, the ears still work! Heard a distant but insistent buzz - immediately thought, Hughes 500! Yup! Long time since I've seen one...

Lynden Air Cargo Herc N402LC currently trundling eastwards along "Green 1" between Strumble and Dover, just abeam Cardiff...

Edit: Turned south at Lambourne and presently heading across France...

Did anyone see the IL-62 that transited Shannon EW-450TR apparently hidden on Flightradar24 (other trackers are available) ?

Wish I had - c52 mentioned it on the previous page, was on Friday?

Yes - here's its track 13:38 to 13:48

https://cimg4.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....088c168c74.jpg

If only I'd looked up. :ugh:

Think I was burrowing under the kitchen sink at the time trying to remove it...

If you had, like me in South Oxfordshire, you would probably have only seen the 8/8ths overcast!

I had 8/8ths stainless steel! :ok:

There can't be too many IL-62's flying these days. Air Kyoro (?) seem to have stopped flying them. Perhaps some are still operating inside Russian airspace, perhaps govt/mil related ? So commonplace at larger airports forever and then suddenly not.

Brief stop at ATH and on.

EDIT

Bahrain beckons, I need to get out more 🙄

I think this is the only one now. When I first went to Russia in 2003 I had read that there were no more in airline service there. Inevitably as soon as the BA A320 landed at St Petersburg, the next runway movement was an IL-62 of Kras Air, departing to wherever (likely to Krasnoyarsk in Siberia).

Rada Airlines I believe has two operational, EW-450TR and EX-505TR.

That's rather unusual for LFA 18 normally only choppers in these parts :confused:

https://cimg8.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....47f2caba2b.jpg

Out of Cranwell apparently

08.30 AN26 overhead Bicester heading East

AN-12 I think, EW-484TI just passed within earshot chez moi!

Dutch C-130H just ambled over here - surprisingly quietly!

Edit: may have been throttled back for descent - it seems to have made a quick visit to Exeter! Heading home again...

Just been past Bournemouth and there is an AN26 with a blue fin on the ramp. They seem to be getting everywhere.

Couldn't get to sleep last night because of a distant, throbbing rumble. I couldn't tell if it was a motorbike or a helicopter so switched on FR24 and there was a Chinook wandering round Dorset. Nothing unusual about that. But there were also two King Airs flying in perfect, identical circles but in opposite directions, one at 20,000' and the other at 21,000'. I haven't a clue if what they were up to had anything to do with the Chinook which appeared to land at the Blandford Army Signals Camp before flying south again. According to FR, the King Airs came from Brize Norton and Waddington respectively.