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AndyMarden wrote:The other two J-20s should therefore be 30101 and 30114.

That ties in nicely with the list on the museum's website (or is that the source of the information?)

Roy

The contents of the storage compound were checked on 01Sep12. There have been some new arrivals - four J-20s - but otherwise they are much the same as they have been for many years. Comments about replacements below relate to the information in Jurgen’s very helpful post from 2009: http://forum.scra...

Here's Part 2 , the civilians: C-FTNB Bell 419 (57002) [07-15] C-GIAZ CRJ900 (15277) for China Express Airlines [07-13] C-GOCX DHC-8-402 (4417) for Eurolot as SP-EQE [07-13] D-CNEU Do228-212 (8206) [04-17] ES-TLC/8 L39 (533223) Breitling Jet Team [12-15] with ES-TLF/5 (132114), ES-TLG/4 (131849), ES...

OK, here's what I think is a full list of Farnborough participants. The figures inside [ ] are the arrival and departure dates. Part 1 : military 1004 C-130H (4964) FAC/Esc 811 [09-16] 2446 T-90 Calima (7?) FAC/Esc 712 [09-16 on board C-130H] MM62127 MC-27J (4033) [06-16] CSX81798/15-42 HH-139A (314...

Otis52 went to Farnborough to sweep up the three V-22s there.

Roy Blewett

SP-YVE at Le Bourget was at the time reported to be going to Mexico. Not sure if it went though...

Roy Blewett

The air show website has been updated with a map of the 'showground', but no news yet on participants. The Serb language site includes an outline programme for the weekend, the Google translation of which is given below. In brief, it's arrivals on Friday; press day and display practice on Saturday; ...

Air show departures have so far included: C-GIAZ CRJ9 earlier today F-WWAJ A388 11th F-WWIQ A320 11th F-WWPB EC175 earlier today G-SVEY P68 12th ZK317 Typhoon 11th (swapped with ZK330/EZ) ZZ403, ZZ405, ZZ407 Wildcats 11th (handed over to RN that morning and flown out) HL8248 B739 12th I-AWIT AW139 1...

In reply to Freekiev's question, there is no Il-76 present. I assume this fell off when the Russian Knights pulled out, but no-one told the webmaster.

Roy

A few more of those missing callsigns: XX318 "Pirate10" ZK450 "Cranwell65" ZJ262 "Shawbury13" ZK333 "Cannon" ZE116 "Marham50" ZF374/ZF269 "Vista" XW233 "Vortex026" ZA105 "Sierra37" 38+28 "German Air Force R05" ...

NavyGm from LMML,

Pity those of us that have to live in it!

Roy

According to the Musee de l'Air website, the reserve collection will be open for inspection during the 2012 Aeropuces, on 20/21 Oct. More information here: http://www.museeairespace.fr/aeropuces/aeropuces-2012.html . Note that the reserve collection will not be open during the Journees Patrimoine in...

Scramble airfield guide available for members at http://www.scramble.nl/databases/airports/getairport.php?airportid=497 . Spots 2 and 3 will be enthusisastically patrolled by private security companies and so will for all intents and purposes be unavailable. Also note there will be no parking at spo...

No mention of the Russian Knights on the Farnborough website. In fact, no mention of any 2012 participants at all: the earlier list has been taken down and replaced by a list of aircraft participating in 2010.

Roy

A rather sparse list of participants has appeared on the Farnborough International website (a site which must win a prize for being one of the most hideous sites to look at and unfriendly ones to navigate; it assaults the ears too, so you may want to turn the sound down before visiting http://www.fa...