Same source on airliners.net mentioned the possibility of a ninth aircraft that was currently in depot. Might it be that -0169 is the "stored" bird ? SCR database has it last noted in 2007.
According to an obviously informed source at the airliners.net military forum, Elmendorf has 8 C-17's, these being 98-0051, 0056, 99-0167, 0168, 0170 and 00-0171, 0173 and 0174. Should be one of these then, as the USAF acknowledged that it was a home-bird. It's an awful week with all these high-prof...
what bizjet is heading for EHAM now (1130 lt) please? It was overhead here but was in and out of view so quickly I couldn't tell whether it as a Learjet or a Ce560XL ...
Looking at the picture in the Calgary Herald, the Hornet (or rather, that what's left of it) has special tail markings. This, combined with the fact that the aircraft was rehearsing its demo for the Alberta Airshow, identifies the aircraft as solo display ship 188738. Fortunately, the pilot was able...
Vreemd ... want voor een DC-2 (PH-AJU) kwam ik wel de title "ROYAL DUTCH AIR LINES" tegen ... dus niet Airlines. Je hebt gelijk... ik kwam pas na m'n post ook foto's tegen van kisten met de engelse tekst, en die is idd Air Lines. Daarvoor had ik alleen maar foto's paraat waarop de tekst i...
There's also a problem with the lettering: when the aircraft had the big K*L*M titles on the nose, the text under the port (left hand side) fuselage windows was NOT "Royal Dutch Air Lines", but "Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij". Furthermore, whenever the text appeared in engl...