Pictured about to taxy out to rw32L for departure back to Ashgabat.

T5 427 arrives from Ashgabat on rw27R.

Leased from and operating in Turkmenistan Airlines colours.

Built for Delta Air Lines in 1993, but sold to Turkmenistan the following year. To ATA Airlines of Iran in 2015 as EP-TAF.

Making a first ever visit to LHR as flight TUA3211/2, this Bombardier Challenger had been recently received by the Turkmen government, joining EZ-B022 delivered last August

A split second before touch-down on runway 24. Very unusual for a large aircraft such as this to be landing on this runway... It is primarily a take-off runway, and normally only the smaller aircraft use it for landings. By 2001 this aircraft had been withdrawn from use, and surprisingly it was offered for sale as late as 2012, with a total time of only 4382 hours. By 2015 it still survived in storage at Osh, Kyrgyzstan.

On a presedential visit but followed a few minutes later by the regular scheduled 757

Until recently TUA427 was operated with either 757 or 737 equipment but the 777 has been used a number of times lately