Friday, October 24, 2008

Recent visitors

Thursday of last week provided Shannon with two exotic visitors in the shape of B727 J2-KBA and Gulfstream 4 VT-DLF.
The Government of Djibouti B727-191 J2-KBA, msn 19394 fuel stopped on it's way to Canada with President Ismail Omar Guelleh who was travelling to Quebec City for the 12th Francophonie Summit. The Summit is attended by French speaking nations and at this year's event there were representatives of 55 nations present.
Following the summit, President Guelleh attended a UN Security Council meeting in New York which was called to resolve a border dispute with Eritrea, so as of today the aircraft should still be Stateside.
Pictured below by Trevor Mulkerrins, the aircraft has titles on the port side only.
A larger version can be viewed at J2-KBA
The second visitor of note on October 16 was Gulfstream 4 VT-DLF, msn 1231. On it's first visit to Shannon , it has visited Ireland before. During the summer it visited Cork with relatives of Air India 182 who attended a memorial ceremony before visiting Dublin. The aircraft is owned by DLF Universal Ltd which is the largest real estate developer in Delhi. The company is owned by Kushal Pal Singh, listed by Forbes as the eighth richest person in the world.
Pictured below by Trevor Mulkerrins, VT-DLF taxis for takeoff on Runway 24.
A larger version can be viewed at VT-DLF

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