michiganatc From United States of America, joined Nov 2008, 133 posts, RR: 0 Posted (8 months ago) and read 21465 times:
I know with the UN Assembly in progress from 24 Sep-28 Sep (Mon-Fri) there are a few rare visitors to JFK now.
I was told an Iran Air 747SP and a Yemeni 747SP are on the list. Has anyone heard of any additional rare birds here? I would think Russia's IL-96 would be on this list but I can't confirm this.
Is it safe to say the Iran and Yemeni SP's will be there at JFK thru Friday?
One more thing, I noticed on Flightaware.com that a Thai Airways A345 arrived at SWF from JFK. Why wouldn't this just stay in JFK for the UN Assembly meeting!?!?
spiritair97 From United States of America, joined Jan 2011, 1231 posts, RR: 1 Reply 2, posted (7 months 4 weeks 1 day 23 hours ago) and read 21282 times:
A7-HHH arrived about 20 minutes ago.
Yesterday I photographed UR-ABA (Ukraine Airlines a319) and a French Gov't a319, as well as a Japan Air Force 747-400 and know that there is a Spain Air Force a310 that I missed.
crownvic From United States of America, joined Oct 2004, 1595 posts, RR: 6 Reply 4, posted (7 months 4 weeks 1 day 21 hours ago) and read 20843 times:
I started this topic too... See my thread lower on this page titled roll call... No one is responding??? I find it interesting but I guess not as much as to all the others out there...
Sean-SAN- From United States of America, joined Aug 2002, 752 posts, RR: 1 Reply 5, posted (7 months 4 weeks 1 day 20 hours ago) and read 20783 times:
I landed behind Yemenia flt#7000 last night... The ground controller didn't know what airline it was and had to use the three-letter ID code. The pilot also had a bit of trouble with the taxi instructions, but eventually figured it out. Following Yemenia on taxiway A was the Dreamlifer, nice view!
spiritair97 From United States of America, joined Jan 2011, 1231 posts, RR: 1 Reply 6, posted (7 months 4 weeks 1 day 20 hours ago) and read 20713 times:
Quoting 757ops (Reply 3): Is there an Ethiopian Airlines flight in NYC?
Nope! I;m guessing we'll see an Ethiopian gov't aircraft anyday now!
Quoting Sean-SAN- (Reply 5): I landed behind Yemenia flt#7000 last night... The ground controller didn't know what airline it was and had to use the three-letter ID code. The pilot also had a bit of trouble with the taxi instructions, but eventually figured it out. Following Yemenia on taxiway A was the Dreamlifer, nice view!
Now that must've been cool! I've wanted to catch the Yemenia 74S for a while now. Also, I saw that Dreamlifter on the radar going to CHS at about 11:00pm ;last night so it must not have been here that long. Too bad you didn't get to see those rare 747s in daylight!
michiganatc From United States of America, joined Nov 2008, 133 posts, RR: 0 Reply 7, posted (7 months 4 weeks 1 day 19 hours ago) and read 20543 times:
Any idea of what other VIP aircraft are at JFK now and when they leave? Would love to see the Iran Air SP!
Dash8Driver16 From United States of America, joined Dec 2011, 86 posts, RR: 0 Reply 8, posted (7 months 4 weeks 1 day 19 hours ago) and read 20541 times:
There is an Austrian 737 at HPN plus a couple of other's that i wasn't able to see who they belonged to. Jetblue also had 4 E190's parked up at the NetJets Hanger plus two on the gates.
cedarjet From United Kingdom, joined exactly 14 years ago today! , 7708 posts, RR: 55 Reply 10, posted (7 months 4 weeks 1 day 17 hours ago) and read 20099 times:
Would love to know which SP the Iranians sent (out of EP_IAA, B, C and D). I've flown on Delta twice. Bravo, the one that had an emergency landing in PEK a few years back with no nose gear, is being parted out.
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khpn From United States of America, joined Sep 2010, 138 posts, RR: 0 Reply 11, posted (7 months 4 weeks 1 day 15 hours ago) and read 19922 times:
Quoting Dash8Driver16 (Reply 8):
There is an Austrian 737 at HPN plus a couple of other's that i wasn't able to see who they belonged to. Jetblue also had 4 E190's parked up at the NetJets Hanger plus two on the gates.
wow I wish I was home.. That would be one fantastic catch.
Strange, I thought we sold those to a couple of African countries, and I would expect François Hollande to use the A330. But I guess it's possible the sell didn't go through and that ex PM Laurent Fabius, now foreign minister, and an entourage, came separately.
OK so I checked, one is sold to Senegal and the other to a company in Singapore. The French Air Force doesn't own any A320 family aircraft currently. Only A310/A330/A340.
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RWA380 From United States of America, joined Feb 2005, 2160 posts, RR: 4 Reply 16, posted (7 months 4 weeks 1 day 12 hours ago) and read 18950 times:
Quoting spiritair97 (Reply 6): Now that must've been cool! I've wanted to catch the Yemenia 74S
Hey spiritair97, just an FYI, by no means a nitpik or a call out, the code used for the 747sp was 74L, I think the denotation 74S applies to a different model of the 747 family. IIRC it was the high density 747's flown on short routes like in Japan.
On a side note, just flew NK a couple weeks ago for the first time, Great on-time performance and nice crew.
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United_fan From United States of America, joined Nov 2000, 7159 posts, RR: 8 Reply 18, posted (7 months 4 weeks 1 day 11 hours ago) and read 17835 times:
Quoting RWA380 (Reply 16): Hey spiritair97, just an FYI, by no means a nitpik or a call out, the code used for the 747sp was 74L, I think the denotation 74S applies to a different model of the 747 family
But , the 74S is the identifier on flightaware for the -SP.
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aagold From United States of America, joined Nov 2002, 542 posts, RR: 52 Reply 19, posted (7 months 4 weeks 1 day 10 hours ago) and read 17506 times:
We caught a couple of the government aircraft on Sunday. An Argentina AF 757, a South Africa 737 and the Russian State Transport IL-96. The Dreamlifter has made several stops this past week at JFK. We caught her departing on Wednesday the 19th after a brief stop.
JOshu From United States of America, joined Jun 2010, 88 posts, RR: 0 Reply 20, posted (7 months 4 weeks 1 day 9 hours ago) and read 16390 times:
Due to some parking restrictions, some planes are dropping their VIPs off in New York and parking at BWI. We had an Indonesian A333 come in on Sunday that's here for the week.
icebird757 From United States of America, joined Feb 2001, 621 posts, RR: 2 Reply 21, posted (7 months 4 weeks 1 day 8 hours ago) and read 15029 times:
The Iran Air SP arrived Saturday night around 11:30pm, 2 hours late.
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spiritair97 From United States of America, joined Jan 2011, 1231 posts, RR: 1 Reply 23, posted (7 months 4 weeks 1 day 6 hours ago) and read 12692 times:
Quoting Aesma (Reply 15): Strange, I thought we sold those to a couple of African countries, and I would expect François Hollande to use the A330. But I guess it's possible the sell didn't go through and that ex PM Laurent Fabius, now foreign minister, and an entourage, came separately.
OK so I checked, one is sold to Senegal and the other to a company in Singapore. The French Air Force doesn't own any A320 family aircraft currently. Only A310/A330/A340.
You are probably right, as you did your research. When I saw it, it seemed strange to me as well that they wouldn;t have used the a330.
Here is a picture of the plane in question:
Sorry for the quality, but can anybody help me figure out what country it is? It looks like it has a small French flag in front of the wing, but it could be Irish or Italian, too.
25 Sean-SAN-: I also monday I saw the Japanese 744 (kind of cool that the pilots open the escape hatch and put a Japanese and American flag on top of the plane whil
26 AussieItaliano: In the first pic, posted by spiritair97, I could barely make out the word Repubblica and then the first few letters of the word Italiana. The same wo
27 MikeCT: I travel I-684 often. That would've been a nice surprise to see buzzing the highway.
28 canyonblue17: Last time I was in NYC for this event there was an A319 for one of the governments parked at Republic Airport out on Long Island. Someone should run p
29 B6JFKH81: Yes, I believe that was the Turkish delegate and for the last few years has been parked over by Sheltair ramp along New Highway. Surprisingly, no pic
30 displane: News outlets are reporting that Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad 's aircraft- I would assume an Iran Air 747 SP, is parked at Andrew's to no surp
31 spiritair97: Aah. Screwed up the flags. Thanks for the clarification. BTW for anybody who cares, The Japan Gov't 744 just left JFK about 20 minutes ago. There's n
32 B6JFKH81: Small world....I'm about 2 miles off the end of 14 LOL. (W. Babylon) ...and damn, I was hoping to see it there on Friday on the way to work.
33 spiritair97: LOL I'm in North Lindenhurst! Small world indeed.
34 michiganatc: News outlets are reporting that Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad 's aircraft- I would assume an Iran Air 747 SP, is parked at Andrew's to no sur
35 captintut: Here is the Egyptian president plane. SU-GGG
36 spiritair97: I'm guessing the VS a343 brought the British PM?
37 flyboeingjets: Not at JFK, but on the north side of EWR adjacent to 11/29 on the far west end, there's a TU-204! It's parked next to a BBJ and 752. I was unable to t
38 spiritair97: THA8843 (HS-TLD) just turned off runway 22R from SWF. Scheduled to go to FCO @ 0110 Sept28 (techinal language for in a few hours.
39 gigneil: So I agree these are fun planes... and not everyday occurrences. But they're not that rare at JFK. The UN meets quite frequently NS
40 icebird757: I photographed about 8 aircraft or so. It was very nice seeing them.
41 Bthebest: Was that at JFK? Or could just be a normal scheduled flight but i think they operate 346 and 744 to NY. There was probably a sizeable delegation goin
43 spiritair97: Yes but the plane was parked at the cargo ramp with the other VIP aircraft, and the three flights to JFK that day were operated by 2 a346s and a 744
47 B2468: I saw what looked like a Royal Brunei A342 flying quite low and slow over BDR this evening. It was heading toward the southeast. It flew right over my
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