Glasgow Airport Movements 2018
November
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November 2018
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Intro*
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Autumn colours at the adjacent Paisley Moss Local Nature Reserve.
This Remembrance Day, Sunday 11 November 2018, had extra significance as it marked the centenary of the end of the Great War (1914-1918). A series of special events throughout the UK took place to honour those who made the ultimate sacrifice including a procession of 10,000 people to the Cenotaph in Central London. This was the first time that members of the public chosen by ballot had been given the opportunity to pay their respects at the national memorial in Whitehall and they filed past after the serving personnel and veterans.
In Scotland, before sunrise, pipers around the country played the traditional Scottish lament, The Battle`s O`er. People gathered at ceremonies of remembrance at war memorials in cities, towns and villages to pay their respects and observe a two-minute silence on the 11th hour of the 11th day of the eleventh month, one hundred years on from when the guns finally stopped. No matter how small or remote, there was hardly a community left unaffected by the four years of unprecedented, bloody carnage, most of which took place along the Western Front of Belgium and France. (add text)*
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The Menin Gate in Ypres, Belgium, is one of four British and Commonwealth memorials to the Missing in an area of Flanders that was known as the Ypres Salient during the Great War. Ypres is also known by its Flemish name of Ieper but was referred to by the Tommies who fought there as `Wipers`.
The memorial, commissioned by the British government and designed by Sir Reginald Blomfield, was unveiled Field Marshall Plumer on 24 July 1927. The lion that surmounts the Menin side of the gate was designed by William Reid Dick who sculpted many famous figures including that of David Livingstone which stands overlooking Victoria Falls. |
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The Menin Gate memorial records the names of almost 54,400 officers and men from the UK and other Commonwealth Forces (apart from New Zealand and Newfoundland) who fell, in what was one of the most heavily contested areas during the conflict and have no known grave. The Menin Gate was not large enough to hold the names of a further 35,000 troops of whom no trace remains. They are commemorated at Tyne Cot Cemetery. Menin and the Memorial to the Missing at Tyne Cot combine to record a staggering total of casualties (excluding burials) for a what is a relatively small section of the Western Front.
The belfry of the town`s famous Cloth Hall is visible through the memorial`s archway and was an iconic sight during the Great War when, despite intense shelling, its skeletal remains stood defiantly above the rubble. The simple but highly moving Last Post Ceremony takes place under the memorial every night at 20:00 hours. After a policeman stops the traffic, the buglers, often six in number and usually members of the town`s fire department, sound the haunting call which reverberates under the arches.
The belfry of the town`s famous Cloth Hall is visible through the memorial`s archway and was an iconic sight during the Great War when, despite intense shelling, its skeletal remains stood defiantly above the rubble. The simple but highly moving Last Post Ceremony takes place under the memorial every night at 20:00 hours. After a policeman stops the traffic, the buglers, often six in number and usually members of the town`s fire department, sound the haunting call which reverberates under the arches.
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The Thiepval Memorial to the Missing, designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens, bears the names of over 73,000 British and South African men who fell on the Somme between July 1915 and 20 March 1918 and have no known grave. This total does not include identified burials, nor the tens of thousands of casualties from Australia, Canada, India, Newfoundland and New Zealand who are commemorated elsewhere. Unveiled on 31 July 1932 by HRH Prince of Wales, the Thiepval Memorial is the largest British war memorial in the world.
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The Arras Memorial takes the form of a wall and encloses the Commonwealth section of the Faubourg d`Amiens Cemetery which was begun in March 1916, behind the existing French military cemetery. It continued to be used by field ambulance and fighting units until November 1918. The cemetery was enlarged after the Armistice when graves were brought in from the Somme battlefields and from two smaller cemeteries in the vicinity. Almost 36,000 names of the Missing from the various battles in and around Arras during the Great War are inscribed on the wall and the cemetery contains 2,650 burials.
Just inside the entrance, in a space occupied by the remains of French soldiers, stands the Flying Services Memorial. It takes the form of a globe on top of a column with a flight of doves following the path the sun took around the earth on Armistice Day, 11 November 1918. The memorial carries the names of almost 1,000 airmen of the Royal Naval Air Service (RNAS), Royal Flying Corps (RFC), the Australian Flying Corps (AFC), and Royal Air Force (RAF) either by attachment from other arms of the forces of the Commonwealth or by original enlistment, who were killed on the whole Western Front and who have no known grave.
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In 1940, during the Second World War, in the wake of the German advance, British forces evacuated the town on 23 May. Arras then remained in German hands until retaken by Commonwealth and Free French forces on 1 September 1944. The 1939-1945 War burials number eight and comprise three soldiers and four airmen from the United Kingdom and one entirely unidentified casualty. A special memorial is inscribed with the words "Believed to be buried in this cemetery" and commemorates an officer of the United States Army Air Force (USAAF) who died during WW2. In addition, there are 30 war graves of other nationalities, most of them German. Both cemetery and memorials were designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens.
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Jet Airliners
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Jet airliners visiting Glasgow International this November included Airbus A320-214 D-ABHC Eurowings (Air Berlin colours) (1st); Boeing 777-31H(ER) A6-ENR Emirates (Expo 2020 orange livery), Boeing 757-256(WL) TF-FIR Icelandair (80 years of Icelandic Aviation livery), Boeing 787-9 G-TUIM TUI (f/v - also first visit of the Dreamliner-9 series to Glasgow), Airbus A320-214 D-AIZS Eurowings and Airbus A320-214(WL) G-EZRW easyJet. Boeing 767-336(ER) G-BZHC worked BA1484 / BA1489 Shuttle flights, the last BA 767 to visit Glasgow pending the type`s imminent retirement (2nd);
Airbus A321-231(WL) HA-LTA Wizz Air (3rd); Airbus A320-232 SX-DGN Aegean Airlines and A319-112 D-AKNO Eurowings (4th); Boeing 757-256(WL) TF-FIU Icelandair (Aurora Borealis livery) (5th); Boeing 757-256(WL) TF-FIU Icelandair (Aurora Borealis livery) returned (6th); Airbus A319-112 D-ASTR Germania (7th); Boeing 737-8Q8(WL) OK-TSS Smart Wings and Airbus A319-111 D-ASTQ Germania (8th)... |
A distant view of Luxair Boeing 737-8C9(WL) LX-LGV on Stand 82, Monday 12 November 2018.
Air Transat A310 C-GTSH lifts-off for Toronto on Thursday 1 November.
Boeing 737-8C9(WL) LX-LGV Luxair, Airbus A320-232 SX-DGC Aegean Airlines, A320-214(WL) OE-ICU easyJet Europe and Fokker 100 D-AOLG Avanti Air (Ideal Tours livery) (11th); Airbus A320-214(WL) OE-INI easyJet Europe (12th);
Boeing 757-256(WL) TF-FIU Icelandair (Aurora Borealis livery) visited on 5 November, Guy Fawkes Day.
Eurowings Airbus A320-214 D-ABHC, which worked the Dusseldorf - Glasgow route on Thursday 1 November, is still in Air Berlin colours.
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Turboprop Airliners
Intro*
DHC8-4 2-CAUL US-based AeroCentury Corporation US-based AeroCentury Corporation Established in 1997, AeroCentury currently leases aircraft and engines to regional airlines in 15 countries.*
Biz-Jets
Corporate stop-overs from October were Gulfstream IV N156WJ, Falcon 2000EX N639M and Citation Sovereign N7777B. No new arrivals on the 1st. Gulfstream IV C-FDBJ, Embraer Legacy 500 G-ESNA and Citation Bravo OE-GPS Tyrol Air Ambulance (2nd); Bombardier Global 6000 9H-VJQ and Challenger 350 9H-VCF, both VistaJet (3rd); Citation XLS+ G-GAAL (4th); Bombardier Challenger 605 N600LS, Citation M2 G-CMTO, CitationJet CJ2+ G-TWOP, Learjet 45 LX-LAR and Embraer Phenom 300 G-PERG (5th); Challenger 604 N604AK (6th); Boeing 737-548(WL) 9H-MAC Maleth Aero and Cessna CitationJet CJ2 9H-ALL (7th)...
Dassault Falcon 7X M-CELT and Embraer Legacy 500 G-SUEJ (8th); Boeing 737-548(WL) 9H-MAC Maleth Aero (9th); Gulfstream IV-X N919AM, Bombardier Global 6000 9H-VJD VistaJet, Falcon 2000EX CS-DLF and CitationJet CJ2 2-GOLF (10th); Challenger 604 N637TF, Cessna Citation XLS G-LEAX, Citation Excel CS-DXL and CitationJet CJ2 9H-ALL (11th); Gulfstream VIs C-GNDN and VP-CYL, plus Gulfstream G550 OE-IPE (12th);
Challenger 604 N637TF and CitationJet CJ2 9H-ALL on the executive ramp after night stopping. Monday 12 November 2018.
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General Aviation
Piaggio P-180 M-ONTE was a stop-over from 31 October. King Air 200 G-WCCP and AW189 G-MCGT HM Coastguard (3rd); AW189 G-MCGT returned (5th) & (9th); Pilatus PC-12 D-FHRG and Robinson R44 Astro / Raven G-CBZE (10th); AW189 G-MCGT plus other dates (11th); King Air 200 G-WVIP (12th);
Military
Royal Netherlands Air Force Gulfstream IV serial number V-11 arrived on 1 November and stayed until the following morning then returned on the 5th.
Above: One from the archives. McDonnell Douglas DC-10-30 serial number T-235 is pictured here on the apron at Glasgow on 24 October 2005. This tanker/ transport aircraft was delivered to the Royal Netherlands Air Force in February 1995. The two Dutch KDC-10s currently performing this role are due to be replaced by Airbus A330-MRTTs (Multi Role Tanker Transport) sometime in 2020. The Netherlands is the lead nation in a NATO initiative intended to replace and pool existing Tanker/Transports, with the other countries in the programme being Luxembourg, Belgium, Germany and Norway, which between them will operate a total of eight A330 tanker aircraft. Five of these will be based at based at Eindhoven Airbase and three at Cologne.
CASA C-295M 021 Polish Air Force (2nd);** //
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Hawker Beechcraft T-6C Texan IIs N2859B and N2860B RAF (4th);*
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On Tuesday 6 November, one of the most unusual military aircraft to appear at Glasgow International over the past few years, Turkish Navy ASW (Anti-Submarine Warfare) ATR C-72 MPA (72-212A) CSX12296, call-sign `India 2296`, did two ILS approaches on Runway 05 between 11:15 and 11:30 hrs before heading up the west coast to Stornoway.
About 13:30 hrs on Saturday 10 November, Royal Air Force Airbus A400M-180 Atlas C.1 ZM401 could be seen several thousand feet above the airport, flying in a southwesterly direction as it made its descent into Prestwick.
About 13:30 hrs on Saturday 10 November, Royal Air Force Airbus A400M-180 Atlas C.1 ZM401 could be seen several thousand feet above the airport, flying in a southwesterly direction as it made its descent into Prestwick.
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November 2018
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December 2018
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