Friday, November 14, 2008

Recent visitors

It was a case of the old and the new at Shannon today. This morning saw the departure of Bombardier Challenger 605    TC-SAB on delivery to Doysa VIP Air of Turkey, who currently operate one other aircraft, a Hawker 850.
The aircraft arrived on delivery last night, Thursday November 13 at around 9.00pm. It is pictured departing this morning just before 10.00am. The hexcode is 4BCC22. The msn tie up will no doubt appear in due course.
TC-SAB was in fact the second bizjet to be ferried through Shannon Thursday. Earlier in the day at 01.00am, Hawker 750XP HZ-KSRD arrived on delivery to Saudi Arabia. 71020B is the hex code.
The old was represented today by a visit from Gulfstream 2 registered N718JS, operated by JHS Leasing of Tampa Inc. The aircraft, which has an immaculate exterior is msn 66 and was built in 1969. It's first owner was IBM corporation who registered it as N720F. Pictured above, N718JS is about to touch down on R24. The aircraft is notable not having the upgraded wing with winglets fitted, or the 'bean can' silencers on the engines.

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