In the afternoon we went to Chateauroux Airport for some parked planes, then we drove to Tarbes where we had an overnight stay and went shooting the next day in the morning, and in the afternoon we drove to LLeida for some parked planes including the Sky KG Airlines B744 . then we drove to Zaragoza in the afternoon and then to Teruel only those pictures will come next time.
Day 4 15-09, CHR
Airbus has a large number of A359/K on CHR for storage, including this A35K F-WZFB that would go to Qatar Airways, but this is now happening again.
Heston has 3 Airbus A332 of which 2 are still parked, here the LY-MAC A332
F-WZNA A359 Sichuan Airlines now delivered as B-325J
B-LHA A332 parked at CHR since April 9, 2022
HZ-SKY1 A342 parked for a new paint job, which is now flying again with his new colours
F-WWIV A20N has been parked at CHR for a year now
EI-HAJ A333 (Was not on the plane) is an ex Philippine Airlines plane which is now parked at CQM
Day 5 16-09, LDE
Lufthansa has a number of its A388 at Tarbes that will probably all be scrapped, here A388 D-AIMC
Etihad also has 4 at Tarbes, here the A388 A6-APA
F-HPJJ A388 Air France which has already phased them out
CS-TFX A345! of Hi fly which has been here since 2018
2-RLAX an Ex Vietnam Airlines A332 that was supposed to go to Bamboo Airways, but this did not happen and it has been parked here since 2019
9H-ACY A343 has also been parked here for 2 years, and previously flew for South African but has been repelled by Covid 19
G-VLNM Virgin Atlantic the last Virgin A332 also phased out and now carrying the registraite 2-CMDR
VP-BHF an ex-Thai Airways A333
VP-BUP A333 Nordwind Airlines, my only A333 from Nordwind!
PR-ANV A339 of Azul Linhas Aéreas Brasileiras, which had also been parked here for almost a year, has now been delivered..
2-SSCA an old Singapore Airlines A333 parked to wait its turn to be converted to freighter for DHL
V8-001 Brunei Government A342 in the Scrapping aera before scrapping..
EI-EWH A332 was supposed to go to National Airlines but fell through at the last minute, and they have now commissioned another A332
9H-MIP de ex Hi Fly A388
F-WTAL and F-WTAQ both A359 and would go to Hong Kong Airlines, only they have also divested them and the registrations no longer exist
F-WZNW the 4th Airbus A359 that was also used as a Testbed, but that is no longer necessary and this aircraft has been here since 2016!
F-WWAI Airbus A342 this aircraft they used as a test bed and is now parked on tarbes since August 6, 2019
nice overview of Tarbes Airport
VP-BGK B77W Royal Flight is also parked here because of the war
VQ-BZB B77W an aircraft that was supposed to go to Azur Air, but was canceled due to war and has now been parked for almost a year
Day 5 16-09, ILD
EX-47003 of Sky KG Airlines the only B744 here on Lleida and is an ex Wamos Air B744 EC-KXN
Several Blue Air B738 that go to transavia are parked here because the money was gone.
A lot of HeatHaze here, but here is also an ex KLM A332 PH-AON now OE-LDV
P4-EAS an ex Air Astana B752 also for scrap here
EC-ISY an ex Privilege Style B752 being scrapped here and used for parts
Part 4 Teruel and Castellon comes next time
Spotting trip Europe 09-2022 part 3 (CHR/LDE/ILD)
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Re: Spotting trip Europe 09-2022 part 3 (CHR/LDE/ILD)
Very nice photo report!