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AO11912 wrote: A few people had a look and took some pix airside, this is mine

Thanks for posting, especially rare for perth! Would have been a bit weird to see in person in bet!

written_ficton wrote:Is the aircraft RAAF or USAF?

It was a RAAF, and there is another of their C17's here now too!

A Lockheed P-3 Orion is currently on bay 60 at the international, arrived from Diego Garcia last night at around 20:30 and is due to leave at 14:00 today.

Pretty rare sight here in PER!!

CASA cracked it big time when they moved that third one to Jandakot too. As a result they put a notice on the door of other two that they weren't allowed to be flown until CASA had approved. As for their fate, well they are for sale by the current owners Red Cloud Assets LLC based in the USA, but th...

written_ficton wrote:Virgin Australia's newest ATR72-500

Looks awesome, even with THAT livery!
But it begs the question... will any of them be painted up in Skywest livery??

Nafenn wrote:VH-XFA will be coming into perth around 1600 local today, and fly out about 0900 tomorrow morning

Is it painted in the full livery yet do you know?

Emirates A380 - A6-EDA dropped in a couple of hours ago due to a medical diversion operating EK412 DXB - SYD. Arrived at 02:45 local.

Incredibly quiet for the size of the beast!

Not sure if its a exceptional movement but I've not seen them here recently... Cargolux are operating a 747-400F due in to PER this afternoon (13/04) about 16:25L. Coming in from LUX via DXB then going out to PVG at 19:25L with a load of cars reportedly.

Were any of the regulars here lucky enough to get an opportunity to have a look on board XFA?

Also arriving this morning around 0730 (was driving under it as it went over the fence) 9V-SFM B747-412F from Cape Town as Sincargo 7343 with Cirque Du Soleil cargos An awesome sight as well! However I heard SQ Cargo were none to pleased when the aircraft got stuck here due to the main rwy closure ...

An Air China 747-400 carrying a VVIP arrived at the International bay 50, about 20:00 local 5th April, under tight security. Believed to be carrying an extremely important Chinese government official. Aircraft will be here until the 7th when it departs at 0800L Rare to see a 747-400 in these parts.....

... I'm more inclined to think knocking it down slow means they've found some asbestos in there, but that's just my guess. =D> Bingo, they have actually stopped work because of the asbestos too. But all that aside they'll be getting some serious pressure from Virgin to get it knocked down, due to t...

Nafenn wrote:

written_ficton wrote:Confirmed, ATR will be seen in the Virgin Livery!

I was right!

Care to provide some sort of source?

He may have discovered it elsewhere, however I sourced it out of the ASX report below.

http://www.asx.com.au/asxpdf/20110223/p ... shtl5s.pdf

Nafenn wrote:

AO11912 wrote:Was here today 23 Feb in the am, Bay 50

I started at 5am, and has been there since then, still there when i left at 3

Unfortunately it is AOG at the moment, for another 24hrs at least. Hydraulic Leak was discovered after it taxied out in the wee hours.

Helitak_670 wrote:well that has me buggered. I have spoken to a few safety officers and they have all said for the a330.

You're both correct, its to allow the A330 pushback tug to park with adequate repositioning room/GSE storage