Ukrainian AN-124 Ruslan visited Bratiislava today after a long time, with additional titles commemorating heroism of the defenders of the city of Okhtyrka.
ATR-72 of Amelia International arrived today early morning from Cologne/Bonn to "celebrate" Christmas in the company of local Antonovs in Piešťany :-)
As on a passenger this aircraft would not look very trustworthy, however this A330-200 of TAP operates since November 2020 as "Preighter", a passenger plane reconfigured for the transport of lighter cargo. It arrived to Vienna on 27 November 2022 and its longer storage showed on its paint.
After first attempt, when the sun did not cooperate, I finally managed to photograph Boeing 787-9 of Etihad Airways carrying Manchester City football club promotional colours.
Unfortunately the sun was hidden behind clouds on this afternoon, however to see an almost 45 years old B747-200 is a rarity today. This was the first aircraft that, accompanied by huge dust blow, used RWY 29L for departure from Mehrabad airport, this runway was closed for a long time due to renovation and it was re-opened only for departures so far, however even during the next 2 days no other planes used it, except for a second B747-200 of Qeshm Fars Air a few minutes later.
Islamic Republic of Iran Air Force Boeing 707 air tanker lands at Mehrabad airport with dominant Milad Tower in the background in a typical Tehran smog. It is great to see and hear this beautiful aircraft in live traffic after so many years...
This ERJ-190 ex American Airlines underwent maintenance at Austrian Technik in Bratislava and after today´s technical flight should depart tomorrow to its new operator in Australia.
This Saab 340 of NyxAir awaits its next contract at Bratislava and with its title clearly shows for what purpose it serves. It arrived with automotive cargo from Vigo in Spain.
Company Vulkan Air bought this AN-26 (formerly YL-RAC) from RAF-Avia and moved it to Piešťany, where after re-registration to UR-CQZ will undergo deep maintenance before service entry. By the way, all three other AN-26s of Vulkan Air has already been serviced at Piešťany.
The third Boeing 737-800 from the fleet of Aeroitalia, which until recently wore neutralized colours of Blue Panorama, was repainted into the carrier´s colours at Bratislava.
Most of the airports in Ukraine are due to the Russian aggression unserviceable, so thanks to the activity of Anius handling company not only all four AN-26s of Vulkan Air but also so far 3 AN-12s of Cavok Air found their maintenance home at Piešťany airport.
This renewed L-410UVP-E for Kin Avia in the Democratic Republic of Congo departed Piešťany airport after overhaul and repaint on delivery flight on 11.10.2022. It is former LY-AVZ of Transviabaltika, c/n 892336, and after delivery flight it will receive its permanent registration 9S-GLA which has been temporarily overtaped on the fuselage.
After months of operations only in the darkness the converted cargo A321-200(P2F) of SmartLynx Cargo finally started to operate for DHL to Bratislava also in the daylight.
The first converted cargo Boeing 737-800 for AirExplore has been delivered from Lasham today and will be operated for RDS Cargo Group in the United Arab Emirates.
