Thank God that everyone survived! My hat's off to the pilots and the cabin crew who, in the worst of times, performed their emergency evac duties as trained and lost nobody in the process! I am currently watching this on CNN, and the passenger that they are interviewing is driving me nuts!! He is co...
Jump to postHi there! Once upon a time, I had saved to my <acronym title="Air Fiji and Continental Airways (Russian Federation)">PC</acronym> a Blue Angels music video that was made using the song "Taking Care of Business." It was an AWESOME video and my 4 year old son LOVED it (so did his Dad!!). Unfortunately...
Jump to postAt AEX we have seen all of the others mentioned above along with Sierra Pacific, America West, along with Omni using their B757s and DC-10s.
Jump to postMy favorites would have to be the F4U, P38, B-17 and the venerable C-47. <br><table align=center border=0 width=500><tr><td><center><font color="#EEEEEE" size="1" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva"><a href="/open.file/701843/L/" target="_blank">View Large</a> <a href="/open.file/701843/M/" target="_bla...
Jump to postYesterday, 2-16-05, PRIDE Flight Services FBO was bought out by Chris Freeman and is now Million Air - Alexandria. <img src="/discussions/graphics/biggthumpup.gif" ALT="Big thumbs up"> For those of us who work there, this is a MAJOR improvement! We are now upgrading from 2 run down 3000 USG J...
Jump to postWith the shutdown of the Delta hub at <acronym title="Dallas / Fort Worth - International (DFW / KDFW), USA - Texas">DFW</acronym>, it would appear that American Eagle might be coming back to <acronym title="Alexandria - International (England AFB) (AEX), USA - Louisiana">AEX</acronym>. Here's the l...
Jump to postIt could have been one of the JPAT B733's we have based here at AEX. They are N310FL and N303FL and they are on the go quite often!
Jump to postTo the best of my knowledge, Express One went bankrupt after 9/11. They were a primary maintenance contractor for my parent company PRIDE International. Shortly after the attack (a few months), the B727s that were here for repair were parked across the airfield and have been there ever since. There ...
Jump to postWe've had bird and coyote problems at <acronym title="Alexandria - International (England AFB) (AEX), USA - Louisiana">AEX</acronym> a few times. About 2 years a US<acronym title="Air France">AF</acronym> T-1 hit a coyote at about 60 - 70 MPH on it's takeoff run. The plane's left gear struck the ani...
Jump to postDoes SPIRIT do charters? Or are they just scheduled service?
Jump to postYep, they definitely came here to pick up troops of the Idaho Nat. Guard. They had been here training at Ft. Polk, and now they are going to Kuwait. The aircraft were N799UA and N117UA. Later on, we also had B744 N178UA come in from SFO for more soldiers.<br><br>[Edited 2004-11-28 01:16:11] They wer...
Jump to postThey have been flying into <acronym title="Alexandria - International (England AFB) (AEX), USA - Louisiana">AEX</acronym> the last week or so for JPATS with N79745, but this is only until they they get their B737s in for the new leasing company here (which I think is a company called AEI....). We ha...
Jump to postYear: 2000
Make:GMC
Model: Jimmy
Color: Pewter
Transmission: Automatic
Engine: 4.3 V6
I was wondering about something that I hear when I am listening to the radio traffic between our commercial flights and the tower at <acronym title="Alexandria - International (England AFB) (AEX), USA - Louisiana">AEX</acronym>. When ASA calls for their clearance to <acronym title="Atlanta - Hartsfi...
Jump to postThe person I was talking to said that they would be converting the existing "E" model aircraft to "R" models, not just replacing them other aircraft. I think they plan to start doing this within the next year.
Jump to postI was talking to a <acronym title="Carpatian Air Transport (Hungary)">KC</acronym>-135E crew chief from <acronym title="Salt Lake City - International (SLC / KSLC), USA - Utah">SLC</acronym> last night (11-18-04) at <acronym title="Alexandria - International (England AFB) (AEX), USA - Louisiana">AEX...
Jump to postBoo25, Planet also does military charters (as I type this, I have one inbound from SVN-<acronym title="Alexandria - International (England AFB) (AEX), USA - Louisiana">AEX</acronym> as PLZ501) as well as other charters. L-188, Do you recall which MD80 it was? We have 2 of their MD82s (N806US and N82...
Jump to postWe will most likely be the Mx base for the B727s that they operate....but seeing the AN-124s was a nice thought!
Jump to postA340Spotter, The "new" B727 for HeavyLift is painted like the other one and has been undergoing repainting and a "C" check before going into service. I don't think they even have the new reg painted on it yet! As for being a mx facility for the <acronym title="Ansett Australia">AN</acronym>-124s, t...
Jump to postFrom the way that the article reads, it seems that we will get a repair station out of the deal. I wonder if they plan to start operations from here as well...
Jump to postHere's a link to the article that ran in the local newspaper today:
http://www.thetowntalk.com/html/505EDEA0-07C5-4725-ACF0-3B9F9C868093.shtml
I just heard that they plan to use the setup here at <acronym title="Alexandria - International (England AFB) (AEX), USA - Louisiana">AEX</acronym> as a Mx facility. They put the down payment on the equiptment that is in the hangars, and are trying to negotiate a contract with England Authority (the...
Jump to postHi all! Things are finally changing at <acronym title="Alexandria - International (England AFB) (AEX), USA - Louisiana">AEX</acronym> - PRIDE International (Heavy Mx facility for B727, B737, DC9, and MD80 a/c) has declared bankruptcy! The hangars were rennovated about a year ago to accomodate B737NG...
Jump to postThanks! I was wondering why 2 different callsigns would be using the same freq...
Jump to postHi there! I was wondering, who in Houston area uses Unicom frequency 130.0? The reason I ask is because I work at the FBO (PRIDE Flight Services) for <acronym title="Alexandria - International (England AFB) (AEX), USA - Louisiana">AEX</acronym> and we use 130.0. Several times a week we will hear som...
Jump to postWe have seen them many times here at <acronym title="Alexandria - International (England AFB) (AEX), USA - Louisiana">AEX</acronym> in the last month (last week as a matter of fact!) doing military charters. They were doing the <acronym title="Alexandria - International (England AFB) (AEX), USA - Lo...
Jump to postI just finished checking, we had 4 outbound flights from <acronym title="Alexandria - International (England AFB) (AEX), USA - Louisiana">AEX</acronym> - <acronym title="Dallas / Fort Worth - International (DFW / KDFW), USA - Texas">DFW</acronym> and 3 inbounds - all using CRJ200s. They usually have...
Jump to postI know ASA usually had some pretty good loads going out of here to <acronym title="Dallas / Fort Worth - International (DFW / KDFW), USA - Texas">DFW</acronym> on CRJ200s, and they did that about 3 or 4 times daily. As for Louisiana Air, we haven't heard anything at all...which is making us all wond...
Jump to postHi All! I was just curious about something...with the demise of the Delta hub in <acronym title="Dallas / Fort Worth - International (DFW / KDFW), USA - Texas">DFW</acronym>, <acronym title="Alexandria - International (England AFB) (AEX), USA - Louisiana">AEX</acronym> lost it's connection with that...
Jump to postI like the one for NIKE's G-<acronym title="Fuijan Airlines (China)">IV</acronym>..... <br><center><font color="#EEEEEE" size="1" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva"><a href="/open.file/619954/L/" target="_blank">View Large</a> <a href="/open.file/619954/M/" target="_blank">View Medium<br><IMG SRC="/pho...
Jump to postI always enjoyed seeing a Starlifter come in at AEX! I will miss them when they are gone!!
Jump to postDon't forget DELTA
Delivers
Everyones
Luggage
To
Atlanta
or
Damn!
Everything
Leads
To
Atlanta
Also ATA:
Another
Tower
Air
[Edited 2004-09-16 19:01:18]
They did operate the B727s for a little while. I remember watching them take off over my house.
Jump to postok...maybe it was another airline.... is there any way for me to find out?
Jump to postHi! I don't know if there is any way to locate this info or not, but here is what I am looking for: Back in the 1970's-mid 1980's there was an accident at Esler Regional Airport (ESF/ KESF) involving a DELTA B727 (or was it DC-9??). They were landing in bad weather (from what I was told), and the A/...
Jump to postLuckily, I still get to see them on a somewhat regular basis. We usually see a few of them every 1-2 months, if not sooner.
Jump to post<b>RobK</b> - I might be able to get access to the cockpit of the one here at <acronym title="Alexandria - International (England AFB) (AEX), USA - Louisiana">AEX</acronym> (still no Reg #!)...they will be working on it for a little while longer (checking the Horizontal Stab and it's components for ...
Jump to postAnyone have info on how much the 1st B727 is being used?
Jump to postI don't know about everyone else, but I will miss those great ladies after ATA retires the last one. For me, the L1011 will always have a special place in my heart...It was the 1st "heavy" that I ever had a chance to work with. To most people I am sure it wouldn't be a "big deal", but to a person wh...
Jump to postThey transport prisoners around the country to help take some pressure off of the overcrowded Federal prisons. These particular aircraft also fly INS (Immigration and Naturalization Services) charters to Central and South America to bring deportees back to their home countries. There have been many ...
Jump to postI don't know if I am anywhere close to being right.....but maybe it has something to do with fuel economy, I know that the big jets can still burn a good amount of fuel just taxying out to the runway, esp if it has to taxi a long way just to get there....
Can anyone help me out on this?
I just came back from the US Marshall's hangar (JPATS) where I was told that within the next year (possibly within the next few months) they will be retiring their <acronym title="Air Madagascar">MD</acronym>-82s - N806US and N822US - and replacing them with B737-300s. Does anybody know anythng abou...
Jump to post<b>MSYtristar - I could have sworn that I have seen some Louisiana Air Caravan's doing proving runs into <acronym title="New Orleans - Louis Armstrong International (Moisant Field) (MSY / KMSY), USA - Louisiana">MSY</acronym> for at least the past week.</B> You Have? We haven't seen them yet.....bu...
Jump to postI guess this means that we will be strictly operating <acronym title="Alexandria - International (England AFB) (AEX), USA - Louisiana">AEX</acronym>-<acronym title="Atlanta - Hartsfield-Jackson International (The William B Hartsfield) (ATL / KATL), USA - Georgia">ATL</acronym> and <acronym title="At...
Jump to postI have a dumb question about this situation.....how will this affect the ASA (delta connection) flights into <acronym title="Dallas / Fort Worth - International (DFW / KDFW), USA - Texas">DFW</acronym>?? Will this mean a drastic cutback of their flights into there? I am asking b/c here at <acronym t...
Jump to postDoes anyone know how many more B727s they plan to get? This would definitely be the time to pick up more from other airline's storage....
Jump to postHi all! It looks like HeavyLift Cargo Airlines will be receiving another B727-51C! US Postal Service B727-51C N436EX (cn 19289/403) has been given a new life with her sister ship, former N435EX (now <acronym title="Colgan Air (USA)">9L</acronym>-LEK), down in Australia. They just pushed her out of t...
Jump to postAt AEX, Mesaba and ASA (Delta) do their own deicing, but we (from the FBO) have to do the job for Continental Express.
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