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By Airliner World 3rd August 2023

We present a selection of images of visiting aircraft from airports around the UK. For the most part, they’re commercial jets, but almost all of them are unusual types, wearing new or unique liveries, or first visits by an airline or airliner to a particular airport.

By Babak Taghvaee 5th July 2023

… II turboprop-driven trainers available to the Hellenic Air Force (HAF) . Operated by the HAF’s 361 and 364 Air Training Squadrons (MEAs) – both a part of 120 Air Training Wing (PEA) at Kalamata Air Base – the T-6As are …

By Dino Carrara 21st October 2023

… and students from the German Navy as well as the country’s air force at TTTE because the former operated two wings of … at Cottesmore assess how students were performing in the air?  Sqn Ldr Reekie explained: "The instructors were able to … 12 months.  Upon graduation they would go to their own air arm's weapons’ training unit for more advanced tuition, …

By Dino Carrara 12th July 2023

… first day of arrivals for this year’s Royal International Air Tattoo at RAF Fairford, Gloucestershire has seen a wide … and rotary-wing aircraft types from numerous military air arms as well as civilian operators. Providing the video …

By Steve Beebee 13th July 2023

… is due to participate at Fairford's Royal International Air Tattoo this weekend, July 14 to 16. The aircraft is owned by …

By SQN LDR TONY COWAN MBE 6th October 2023

… out of the limelight — but it did notch up a piece of air force history The Falklands conflict lasted just 74 days. … to take a Nimrod MR1, XV252, to the 1981 International Air Tattoo at Greenham Common where, unbeknown to us, we …

By Dino Carrara and Ben Stanley Hall 13th July 2023

… of Thursday’s arrivals for this year’s Royal International Air Tattoo at RAF Fairford in Gloucestershire were aircraft of a … footage was Ben Stanley Hall. The sight of the Polish Air Force Sukhoi Su-22M Fitter caused camera shutters to be …

By Ken Delve 8th June 2023

… hands and joined Midair Squadron. After a successful few air show seasons, with ‘sister’ jet XH134 the primary display … was taken to cut the jet and save the ‘major bits.’ The Air Salvage International team at Kemble were helpful in … Trust Facebook pages. Many ex-PR.9 (and other variants) air and ground crew have already visited, along with …

By Jamie Ewan 20th April 2023

… April 20, 2023, the organisers of the Royal International Air Tattoo (RIAT) announced that the Manching, Germany-based … likely be one of the unique highlights of this summer's Air Tattoo. We aim to park this aircraft in one of our …

By DARREN HARBAR 28th July 2023

… 11, 1923, Clark Clemons joined the United States Army Air Force (USAAF) on December 15, 1942. Having trained as a … the following day, this time as ‘Blue 2’. Taking to the air again for bomber escort on April 21 using the callsign … were at Fairford last year for the Royal International Air Tattoo and we’ll be there again this year. It’ll only appear …

By Joe Lavery 5th February 2024

… The package includes the B Mk. 2 strategic bomber, K.2 air-to-air refuelling and maritime radar reconnaissance variants. … at RAF Fairford, home of the Royal International Air Tattoo near Swindon. It's an ideal tutorial that covers each …

By Ben Dunnell 20th January 2024

… just a few years before, been a front-line Warsaw Pact air base. If ever an illustration were sought of changing … kind of a managed decline. A fair few of the older AEOs [air electronics officers] and navigators were looking at … Iraqi aerial incursions and the deployment of surface-to-air missiles in the NFZ. Air strikes were mounted on 13 and …

By Ben Dunnell 24th April 2024

… But how, exactly, did it happen?  "I thought the Royal Air Force had said ‘goodbye’ to the Vulcan…” AVM John Price wasn’t wrong. The Assistant Chief of the Air Staff for operations was responding to the proposal that … ’84, the RNAS Yeovilton Air Day and the International Air Tattoo-organised TVS Air Show South at Bournemouth, which …

By Ben Dunnell 10th August 2023

… German aircraft that came to the UK, it was given an Air Ministry number, in this case AM 50. Also allocated was … and finally Farnborough on 9 June 1945. Its Air Ministry identifier was AM 52, and its RAF serial VH509. … appearance of its stay, the Royal International Air Tattoo, accompanied by the Spitfire PRXIX and P-51D Mustang …

By Tom Allett 5th September 2023

… took place on the same weekend as the Royal International Air Tattoo (RIAT) at Fairford. Events such as the Private Flyer … debut. Another impressive Legends debutant was the W Air Collection’s Spitfire FR.XIV RM927 ‘X’ which provided the …