Lanseria - South-Afrika 200309

[maarten-sr]

My travel partner EC and I made this day a visit on Laseria Airport
Lanseria is a very special airport because a lot of old and various planes stand based
a number of photo`s we like to share with you


first picture shows the left side of the airport wich is a maintenance area
as you see a lot of small aircraft are based



ZS-ASN
very unique DC3 in the world
2 more DC3 are based at Lanseria, only these are fly worthy
operated by Spectrem Air, aircraft is a much modified Basler DC3-TP67 and used for airborne mineral exploration


TJ-ALF
Five F28`s were at that moment present



ZS-OWX
Antonov 32B belongs to the catagorie stored aircraft



Impression of a fully booked hanger, lot of small and different aircraft are visible



ZS-IJN
32 year old Fokker F28-4000 delivered in 1977



ZS-NUG
23 years ago this 111 seen at Rotterdam flying for former BIA as G-AYWB
now parked on the grass close to the fire dump waiting for things to come


Gents, enough for now, later more, have fun Maarten-sr

[EC]

All sorts of planes can be found in and around the hangers
























little sister of the dak

rgds
EC

[MikeRomeo]

I don't know why, and I really mean it, since a few weeks ago that I've started felling curious about this airport. Just today I found out that it's the bussiest in whole Africa as for aircraft movements, and now I find this photo topic. Thank you so much for sharing these photos ( the one where you can have an overview of the busy apron sure tells alot from this airport.

By the way, how did you had acess to the apron? Did you just ask permission to the security?

Thanks and best regards

[SilverWingPix]

WOW thats a seriously interesting post. Good quality shot as well, even the hangar shots are of outstanding quality. Looking forward to see more.

Egon/CPH

[EC]

Thanks for the encouragements guy's, we really appreciate.

I have heard this claim about the bussiest airport in Africa before, this may be so at specific times but during the weekday we were there, there were not that many movements.
The platform and hangars you see in Maarten's shot however are only about a third of the platforms and hangars.

Lanseria is generally very spotter friendly, we wrote in advance to the airport management (e-mail on their website) and were granted permission to come and visit.

here are some more, als bigger jets.

first a more frontal view of that turbo dak, showing all the wiring for the antenna's


7 man working on a Beech1900, preparing it for a respray. Have a look at the floor.


on its way for an engine test


South African annex of Ut Air




not going anywhere soon


Up for sale accoording to a post on A-net


Kulula fly regular service into Lanseria to serve the Pretoria area


Phoebus Apollo are also converting to jets, I love this position, on the terrace of the terminal, which is on a hill much higher then the runways.




last one this batch


rgds
EC

[adz]

Great stuff! Difficult to pick one that really stands out, as they all contribute to a great collection.

Lengthening my wishlist once again,

Ard

[MikeLima]

Very very spectacular!

BTW: Was it all that easy accessible or how did you gain access to those hangars?

[EC]

Acces to hangars is often very easy once you are past the security checkpoint, just ask and people normally don't mind.

final batch for Lanseria from my side.























close to the firedump






on the firedump


rgds
EC

[maarten-sr]

a few more

TU-TII B7727 Opedair


not that bad group I think so


ZS-OWX AN32B


3 x Fk28 tail


ZS-OLU Be1900 United Nations - preparing for the paintshop


D2-EZZ Emb120 Air26

[Ierland1]

Hi EC and Maarten-Sr

Thanks for sharing this nice and special collection of pictures!!!
Really impressive !!!
kind regard Sylvia

[TNCB]

Very very interesting! Great photos guys!
Looks like it's certainly worth a visit.