Towards the end of the working week the government aircraft of president Erdogan usually transfers for the weekend from Ankara to Istanbul. However, it was never the case when I was in Istanbul. This time finally yes, however the aircraft prepared moments of stress for me, first it was delayed into risky evening hours and then, few minutes before its arrival, a big cloud came and it looked hopeless, luckily in the last second and for the last shot the sun came out a little bit.
For a private event celebrating 30 years of Motorflugunion Klosterneuburg society this DC-3 manufactured in 1942 was invited for the weekend 12-14 June 2026. It has its homebase in Grenchen (Switzerland). It was accompanied by Beech 18 (in the background).
Thanks to the presence of Spanish troops in NATO mission in Slovakia Bratislava is often visited by Boeing 737s and 787s of Air Europa. But today the rotation of the troops was conducted by this Spanish Air Force A.330-200 MRTT.
Copenhagen is the only European airport, where the sole A330-800 of Air Greenland operates regularly, in fact the aircraft is based there and operates to Greenland on rotation. Photographed around 21:00 hrs.
Test flights of a new L-410UVP-E20 for airline Guyane Express Fly from French Guyana started at Kunovice airport (so far with temporary registration OK-OVI). The aircraft will be used primarilly for domestic flights from the capital Cayenne.
The second exotic aircraft that made test flights today at Kunovice, this time after maintenance, was this L-410UVP-E20 of Bangladesh Air Force, with registration S3-AVB. His brother S3-AVA visited the factory for maintenance about a year ago.
This afternoon the Portuguese Air Force Embraer KC-390 visited Bratislava, aircraft type, which shall in the future be part of Czech and Slovak Air Forces.
A rare visitor in the form of Colombian Air Force B737-700 (BBJ) visited Vienna on 9 March 2026. But as usually, the sun was dimmed by a large white cloud exactly in the decisive moment...
The third and for the moment most probably the last L-410NG for Chilean airline Aerocardal left Kunovice today on a delivery flight over the North Atlantic. The first technical stop, similarly to the second aircraft about a month ago, was made in Hamburg in Germany.
Normally I would not go in such weather, however for a Pakistan Air Force A319, which visited Vienna on 15 February 2026, I gave it a try. Of course, dark clouds everywhere, pieces of broken clouds only on the western horizon, from which the sun came out only minutes after it landed. But the dimmed sunlight from behind the clouds caused reflection on the aircraft almost whichever direction it turned.
Airbus A300-600F of Georgian company Easy Charter visited Bratislava already third time in recent time. The first two flights were luckily in the dark (as I was on the other side of the world), but today´s late morning departure after five delays, happenned to be in a beautiful sunshine.
Originally it was planned to relocate from Maastricht to Bratislava already on Friday, has not arrived over the weekend, when it was relatively nice, but waited until today´s grey weather: the cargo ERJ-190F of Bridges Air Cargo, registration 9H-BRD.
Idyllic morning scene on the Erebuni military airport in Yerevan. I badly wanted to catch this IL-76, but it landed the day before my arrival to Armenia. When a full day sitting next to RWY 03 theshold did not bring any success, I decided to search the terrain and found a sole block of flats right opposite the IL-76 stands. A secret mission onto its roof was successful and while the Russian soldier peacefully fed the dogs, I secretly photographed everything I wanted and quickly disappeared again...
In a beautiful foggy weather this A330-200 MRTT of Spanish Air Force arrived today at Bratislava to rotate the contingent of Spanish NATO troops in Slovakia.
Football players of Slovan Bratislava travelled today for a match to Košice on board this Saab 340 of RAF-Avia, which otherwise operates domestic flights for Trade Air from Osijek and therefore carries its marks.
Maximus Air Cargo AN-124 Ruslan registration UR-ZYD visited yesterday and today Brno again. Its logo is already quite worn out. This aircraft was like cursed for me, finally I photographed it according to my wish.
