Thursday, 28th April 2022

[firlespotter1]

For anyone planning a visit the cafe is now open Tuesday to Saturday, 8am to 5pm. Only slight downside is the car park can get full at peak times.

The shell of the hotel going up next door to the cafe is now complete. Its to be known as "The Landing" and due to open in December 2022.

The large new Hangar for Bombardier appears to have been substantial complete for some while but is not yet operational.

Jota Aviation ceased operations earlier in the month and their 3 aircraft flown to Cranfield for storage. Believed to be last commercial operator of the 146 in Europe?
Catching up a bit, the whole Arena group (not just the aviation arm) ceased operations in November 2021.

Movements (12.00 - 17.00)

Quite slow movements wise but plenty of stuff on ground (as usual not all identified)

CS-CHD   Challenger 350   a   Tower
CS-LAU   CE680A   a/d   Tower
D-AHOX   Legacy   a/d   Signature
D-CCCA   LJ35   a   Signature
D-IDBA   Premier   d   Signature
G-BRNT   DR400   a/d   Tower
G-MFLT   AS365   a   Tower
G-PCTW   PC12   d   Oriens
G-UXLA   LJ40   d   Tower
G-VALK   Beech 200   a   Tower
M-HEAD  Challenger 650   d   Bombardier
N3Q   SF50   a   Tower   New Resident (showing as Beech 33 on some flight tracking apps)
N543GL  Global   a   Signature
N575PW   Cirrus SR22   a/d   Tower
N717HS   Cirrus SR22   a   Tower
OE-GRM   Cessna 560XL   d   Tower  Pink Sparrow
OK-PPP Beech 400   a   Tower
PH-WKB   PA28-181   d   Tower
SP-OOK   Beech 400    a   Signature
S5-CEG   CJ1   d   Tower
2-LIVE   PC12    Taxied from Oriens to Tower
2-SHOT   H750   d/a   Tower

Tower

CS-CHF   Challenger 350
D-FWIT   PC12
D-IELE   Beech 200
EC-LEP   Cessna 560
F-HIJD   CJ2
G-COBN   CJ1
M-ARDI   G650
M-COOL   Cessna 510
M-TBEA   CJ2
N25HS    DA42
N219PM   Cirrus SR22
N221CB   Falcon 50
N2439R   Cessna 182
SP-RYT   DA40 (present since at least 31/3)
T7-ONE   Falcon 2000
VP-CTO   Global 7500
2-NAOM   Eclipse

Signature

D-AAHB   Global
D-IAAW   Phenom 100
G-CEYL?   Global
LX-AMG?   Global
LX-RHC   Challenger 605   Luxembourg Air Ambulance
M-PORT   Global
N114HC   Falcon 50
N800DW   Falcon 900
9H-VII     Global 7500

Bombardier (SW corner)

EC-JYT   Challenger 604
T7-AYO   Challenger 604
T7-DNK   Challenger 350
9H-SSU   Global
9H-VJI   Global

Oriens

M-ALLB   PC12
M-DRIL   PC12

Overflights

G-BOKA   PA28
G-JBRD   Mooney

[firlespotter1]

Global Express LX-AMG cn.9286 has been registered as TC-DDD and is due to depart Biggin later this evening bound for Istanbul.

[hammy]

Would anyone know what the Global Express is in cream primer with no reg on it. I was there a few weeks ago but couldn't identify what it was.

[firlespotter1]

I don't know of any Global Express that meet that description. There was, however, a cream Praetor 600 VP-CCD here a couple of weeks ago that looked very odd as though the painting hadn't been finished and it had a very faint registration on the engines that was difficult to read. It was parked "behind" the tower and Global 7500 VP-CXX.