International/Unusual Visitors to Canberra

[Mayor McBaggage]

With the Cedar of Lebanon visiting Canberra we had an Airbus A330-200 in Canberra for a few days, on Tuesday I headed out to catch the departure of F-ORMA belonging to Middle Eastern Airlines.

 

 
and to go with these two here is the token Dash 8 departing off runway 17

[smitho]

Very nice pics, Lemon.

You should submit to 'Australian Aviation' magazine.

[Mayor McBaggage]

The official photographer for Australian Aviation was there, otherwise I would have.

I finally got your greetings from one of my collegues yesterday, however when driving the older one around in the future please make sure you drop her as far away from the store as possible.

[smitho]

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I finally got your greetings from one of my collegues yesterday, however when driving the older one around in the future please make sure you drop her as far away from the store as possible.

..........not quite sure what you're on about here.....??///

[Mayor McBaggage]

lol, apparently you said to say hi to two of my collegues and dropped them at the stop at the front of my workplace. I don't really like one of them.

[smitho]

Oh, OK....I think that was a while back....

[Mayor McBaggage]

Yes, I believe it was.

[Mayor McBaggage]

This afternoon Thai Airways came to stay for the night with Airbus A340-500 HS-TLD arriving about 4pm:




ATR75-500 VH-FVM climbs as the A340 parks.

The A340 departs at 1500 tomorrow.

[Mayor McBaggage]

Virgin Australia ATR72-600 VH-FVP 'Watagoes Beach' (first of its type on the Australian register) made it's first visit to Canberra today for route proving and ground crew training. It is very quiet opposed to the 500s!

[smitho]

Nice pictures McCheese.

Those A 340s are a beaut aircraft to fly in; did a return trip Melbourne/Manchester/Melbourne with Emirates in various models of the A340s in 2005.

New Virgin prop looks good in their new livery too.

[Buzz Killington]

The new Virgin livery has grown on me a bit, but I still really liked the old red one

[Sir Pompously]

The new livery looks great on smaller planes, but the larger it gets the worse it looks (Too much white). Other liveries like AirNZ, Ansett etc which have/had a white livery break up the white by having a colourful tail.

[Mayor McBaggage]

Air China's A330-200 B-6131 made a visit to Canberra this week, seen here departing for Cairns on a beautiful Thursday afternoon from my new vantage point:

[Buzz Killington]

Awesome photos - excellent vantage point!

[smitho]

Good pics, thanks McBaggage.

[Bus 400]

If anyone is out at Canberra Airport tomorrow night/early Tuesday morning. Leonardo Di Caprio & someone else (plus possibly their posse) are reportedly flying down to Canberra from Sydney to take a 747 back to America.

They are apparently flying out via Canberra due to our curfew.
(http://www.canberratimes.com.au/act-news/nocurfew-capital-helps-jet-set-party-on-and-on-20121228-2bzou.html)

[Mayor McBaggage]

The aircraft arrives about 0830 tomorrow morning.

[Mayor McBaggage]

[Mayor McBaggage]

A few interesting ones yesterday:

Airbus A340-200 V8-BKH of Royal Brunei Airlines came in on Wednesday with the Sultan of Brunei and is seen here departing Canberra

To go with the defense white paper announcement there was an assortment of military aircraft visiting Canberra, namely these two super hornets and C17 Globemaster: