Doha Intl (OTBD/DOH) 2012 MIL

[Le Addeur noir]

08th january visitor,

K3077 V IL-76MD Indian AF,(25)Sqn

[Borispole]

Saudi Tornados came through on a series of overshoots the first 4 days of January 2012:

01-Jan
8309 sand cols
6633 grey cols
7509 sand cols

02-Jan
8309 sand cols
8313 sand cols
7509 sand cols
6605 sand cols

03-Jan
8309 sand cols
8310 grey cols
7518 grey cols
6605 sand cols

04-Jan
8309 sand cols
8313 sand cols
702 sand cols
6605 sand cols

[Borispole]

Recent Doha military visitors:

03-Feb 555 Airbus A320 Royal Air Force of Oman 4 Sqn
05-Feb 556 Airbus A320 Royal Air Force of Oman 4 Sqn
06-Feb J-755 Gulfstream 4 Pakistan Air Force
08-Feb 1208 Piaggio P180 UAE Air Force
09-Feb HL7465 747-400 Republic of Korea Air Force
11-Feb 501 Lockheed C-130H Royal Air Force of Oman 16 Sqn
12-Feb 1208 Piaggio P180 UAE Air Force
12-Feb ZS-NAN Falcon 900 South African Air Force 21 Sqn
20-Feb 07-7186 C17A United States Air Force 437AW
26-Feb CN-AMJ Citation Excel S+ Royal Moroccan Air Force
26-Feb TC-GAP Gulfstream G4 Turkish Air Force 224 Filo
28-Feb A9C-BRN Gulfstream G550 Bahrain Amiri Flight
28-Feb QA95 Dassault Mirage 2000 5EDA Qatar Emiri Air Force 7th Air Superiority Sqn, flying again after not being noted for some time

[Borispole]

Worth mentioning is that the C130J's and the C17's of the Qatar Emiri Air Force are not based at OTBD/DOH, but at Al Udeid. The C17s moved over around Christmas/New Year whilst the C130Js arrived OTD/DOH on their delivery flights but then positioned over before starting operational service.

The new Doha International Airport is currently scheduled to open 12 December 12 (12/12/12) and the existing airport nearby is slated to be closed sometime thereafter. The schedule may slip as it has done several times before but there is definately no military facilty at the new airport which suggests that the QEAF may move totally over to Al Udeid at some point.

[Borispole]

visitors for the first half of March 2012

04-Mar MM62245 F900EX Ialian Air Froce 31 Stormo / 93 Gruppo
05-Mar 8T-CB C130K Austrian Air Force
05-Mar EX-00001 Tu154M Kyrghyzstan Goverment
05-Mar A6-HMS A320 United Arab Emirates Government
06-Mar C5-RTG IL62M Gambian Government
06-Mar 9K-AKD A320 Kuwait Government
06-Mar A4O-AA A320 Oman Royal Flight (also 15th Mar)
15-Mar QA96 Mirage 2000-5EDA Qatar Emiri Air Force noted flying with QA91, QA85, QA87
18-Mar CN-ANO Falcon 50 Moroccan Government
19-Mar MM62244 F900EX Ialian Air Froce 31 Stormo / 93 Gruppo

[Le Addeur noir]

2 of the 5 AW139 on the mil ramp were identified as QA70 and QA73 whilst taxying out on QR77 on the 6th April.

Toe word from Qatar Airways is that the new airport will open at some point in 2013,therfore missing the previous opening date of'triple twelve'.