May 2012 Noteworthy Movements.
 

Morning all. VH-VZZ 737-800W QF entered service this morning as QF400 from MEL. She should be with you shortly.

Thanks to Andrew S for the info.

25 MAY AND 27 MAY you should have a BI 777 .

Lloyd,
Royal Brunei into SYD 25MAY12. BI4193 arrive from CBR 1700, BI4194 depart to BWN at 1800.

Back again on 27MAY12 as BI4195 arrive BWN at 1600 & BI4196 depart to SIN at 1715.
Ops by B772

Morning all,

Planefinder showing N380HA is operating HA451/452 tonight. 1st visit.

Aeropelican's newest Jetstream J32 was performed a test flight at Bankstown today and should be in SYD tomorrow afternoon and will enter service soon after.

VH-OTR (c/n 976).

Is it just a charter for those 2 days because it doesn't fly to Sydney anymore?
I might catch it on the Sunday ! :)

Yes Rory, its a charter just over those 2 days!

My info has it as B-KAF.

Parked at the GA this evening is a US Navy Grumman C-2 Greyhound arrived earlier this evening. I am not 100% on the reg as it was dark but according to the '42' marking on the front its 162178 (cn 58).

Tim, I saw this one on RadarBox earlier this evening .....

162178 2012/05/02 18:04:32 Grumman C-2C Greyhound G-123 (58) - US Navy - Mode S (AE0459)

Greyhound '42' is from the USS Carl Vinson.

Thanks Grahame, its in a very dark spot of the GA but photographable(if thats a word) in the afternoon.

EY454 is operated by A6-EHD A340-500 today (Thursday), will arrive around 18:10 tonight.

The US Navy Grumman C-2 Greyhound is apparently doing some flights in and out of Sydney.

Departs Friday at 1:30pm and arrives back at 5:00pm on the same day.

On Saturday it departs at 10:15am, unsure at this time if it will come back after that flight.

as always, subject to change.

This evening brings us Thai's HS-TGW as TG471/472. Not a first visit but it certainly is uncommon in recent times for the Star Alliance livery.

Here is the RAWHIDES C-2A

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7197/6...bc7d123a_z.jpg

Fantastic Jaryd!

The C-2 just departed 16L as 'Romeo Golf 01'

C-2 is down in Nowra and is scheduled to be back at 5:30

Tomorrows KE121/122 operated by HL7743 the 'New Horizons' which has visited several times in the past but not recently.

The C-2 departed 16L about half an hour ago.

Royal Brunei RBA4076 772 V8-BLD just overflew Sydney from Christchurch.

Did the C-2 come back this arvo? I would like to see it tomorrow.

Nope, not here now.

Chris, the only thing missing from your shot is the copious amounts of black smoke that bellowed from this thing, 8 blade props sure spun fast, so I'm not surprised you got easy prop blur.
It was interesting watching the start-up procedure for it yesterday. With about 6 ground crew front and back and sides, one guy gave all the funky aircraft carrier hand signals to the pilot (a lot of which I could keep up with, but many I had no idea what he was asking to check...:confused:), and after each procedure the aircraft was checked to make sure no leaks or faults were detected. Everything from the rear cargo door closing to the brake lines after 5m taxiing were checked prior to departure. It was a lengthy procedure but so slick to watch.

Cheers

Bet it couldn't beat the AN-12 Nigel. :D

I'm not sure if I've been rostered on for an An-12 departure :-/ Something to look forward to, you reckon?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQgsxj4YLLs

The same rego we got back in December. (UR-CAH) :D

(Skip to 4:30)

Also, does anyone remember the last time a C-2 visited Sydney? I seem to remember one departing off 34R back in the early 2000's.

Possibly when the USS Kitty Hawk came in 2007? I do remember seeing the last C-2 visit, but can't pinpoint exactly when. Too many night shifts clouding the memory I think!

I think it was more around the time when the USS Constellation came around ~2001. (Only a fuzzy memory now)

Ok it wins :)

Due in Monday afternoon is Falcon 2000 D-BFFB from NZ,this aircraft was in MEL last weekend.

Thai Airways Star Alliance 744 HS-TGW is back again operating TG471..

The only C-2 Greyhounds logged (by me) were the 2 at SYD on 2nd July 2005.
162169/27 and 162164/26 from the USS Kittyhawk. I have them as C-2A and was wondering when the later 8 bladed props (C-2C?) were introduced.

there may have been more since but I don't recall any.

just a note that a thai 747-400 is in at the moment wearing there special one world livery rego is HS-TGW

Sorry Callum but it's been mentioned and it's the Star Alliance not One World livery.

Pete If I remember correctly there was a C-2 around July 2007 can't remember which SQN but it had the rising sun art work on the tail, very much like the Sundowners scheme they had on there F-14's now F-5's.
Happy to be corrected.

Thanks for that and sorry for the mistake also i noted a c-17 globe master do a low flyover at home bush if anyone can tell me about this because a week ago i saw the same thing over newtown thx

It's the weekly USAF flight into Richmond AFB is was quite low today I noticed it from Sutherland.

thanks thought it was odd also am i right to say that the usaf used to fly there c-5 galaxy over here or has it always been c-17

and why does the USAF fly there c-17s here anyway do they have troops here in sydney

They fly supplies around the place as to why sort dunno troops would be on charter flights from different American Airlines, and I could be wrong but before C-17's, C-141's used to do the run with an occasional C-5/ KC-10-135 doing it but very rarely. We might have to create another thread Callum to discuss further since this is movement thread only....

Thanks maybe title richmond movements or something am new to forum and am unsure how but thanks

callum