Coventry Thread
 

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

Best Wishes

Adam

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.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!/open.file/0878981/M/

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

Fried Chicken

Fried Chicken,

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

Best Wishes

Adam

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.


( Licensed glider pilot transceiver listerner)

Is either Farnair (do they use a WDL aircraft though?)


or MNG (Turkey) on mail ops.

Could you be hearing 'Black Sea' which is MNG's callsign.

Its Farnair Europe, based at Coventry, departs mid afternoon and returns around 9pm each day. They also have an ATR-42F Based

Regards


Andrew

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

Fried Chicken

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

Fried Chicken

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.

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.

Thanks everyone.

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???

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.

Does that mean Amerer have no more left now, and it is only NPT operating them in Europe?

Certainly does, but then they specialise in being different!

it arrived from Linz on Friday as BFL1027 to nightstop

Fried Chicken

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 ?