Built in 2002, this airframe served with Canal Air as N397U till April 2011, when it became another EMS helicopter for BC Ambulance, operated and maintained by HeliJet. Waiting here for another EMS mission on a cold and rainy winter day.

It took me 3 years to get permission to photograph this sole Madagascar AF Super Rallye, about the history of which I was not able to find much despite a big research effort (so any information would be appreciated). Also, I have never seen it flying between 2002 and 2005 (when I stayed in Madagascar), even though the batch behind the cockpit says "Sécurisation", revealing the aircraft's main role would be restoring law and order, mainly by fighting "cow chiefs", a common and huge problem in remote places of Madagascar. Fate of this airframe is unknown.

For a few years starting around 2008, Wamena airport became the "Eldorado" for BAE-146 cargo airplanes. That was after the Trigana and Merpati F-27's were phased out and before the Boeing 737's were allowed to land in this remote airport. PK-VTA is a 1984 built airframe and flew in Indonesia as from September 4, 2009. It had previously been registered in the UK as G-5-01, G-DEBN and G-MABR, in the US as N461AP, N568BA and N146AP, in Mexico as XA-RST and in Spain as EC-971 and EC-GEP. Left the Manunggal fleet in early 2014 to become RP-C8538 with Sky Jet Airlines in the Philippines.

In high demand of transport capacity, Indonesia took over nine of the twelve ex-RAAF surplus C-130H's (of which the first four were donated). They carry TNI-AU serials A-1330 through A-1338, and while most TNI-AU Herk's have a camouflage livery, A-1330 through A-1335 actually got this overall grey paint scheme during refurbishment in Australia (prior delivery to Indonesia). All have now been repainted to the camo style so I was lucky to catch this one while it was still grey. It is assigned to the 3rd (new) C-130 Skadron Udara 33 at Makassar, along with A-1315, A-1323, A-1330 and A-1338.

A total of 3 AW139 were procured by the Malaysian Coast Guard, officially known as the "Agensi Penguatkuasaan Maritim Malaysia" or "Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency" (MMEA). All are based at Kuala-Lumpur's Subang airport and supplement three AS-365 Dauphin helicopters and two Canadair CL-215 fixed-wing aircraft. With a total of just 8 aircraft, the agency is relatively small, considering how much coastline and watersurface they have to cover. Picture taken during a crew training flight shortly after the AW139's were delivered to Malaysia in early 2011.

Indonesia's IPTN-Nurtanio aircraft facility in Bandung is mainly known for co-producing fixed-wing aircraft with Spain's CASA, such as the C212 Aviocar, the CN235 and the C295. However, it also built under licence different MBB, Bell and Aérospatiale helicopters for the local civilian and military market. Some 26 Super Pumas, of which at least 12 went to the Indonesian AF, were built locally since the mid 1980's. The one pictured here is assigned to VIP Sqn 45 based at Halim, and has since been repainted in an attractive white/red paint scheme (representing the national colors of Indonesia).

First flew as F-WWEL on September 12, 2008. Delivered to irish operator Aer Arann as EI-RER but it appears it was on the irish register for just one day. Became SE-MDB on December 11, 2008, flying for Golden Air, Braathens Regional and danish Alsie Express, who now leases it to Lübeck based Lübeck Air. Besides other destinations in southern Germany and Salzburg, Bern-Belp in Switzerland is also served twice a week since July 1, 2021, a connection planned till early October 2021.

Built in 1987, this airframe first served with the then Soviet Air Force as 1904 before being registered OK-SDL in 1999. After just one month, it went to Africa, first flying in Uganda as 5X-UAG, then in Tanzania as 5H-PAN with Precision Air Services and finally to Kenya where this picture was taken. A few month later, on February 16, 2007, it was sold to South Africa and registered ZS-PNI, where it remains active at the time of upload.

This 1977 built Corvette has been re-registered a few times. It started in France with test registration F-WNGS before becoming F-BYCR. Then between June 1982 and March 1983 in Denmark as OY-ARB (in full "Sterling" colors), from where it went to Sweden as SE-DEE. It became F-GKGD (with "Gallic" titles) on October 29, 1991, went on to Morocco in August of 1998 (becoming CN-TCS) before making it to Madagascar in September 2001. It has been stored in Toulouse/Blagnac since 2005, probably broken up by now.

The AW139 makes up the bulk of Westar's helicopter fleet, with 9M-WAG being among the first entering service in the first half of 2011. Among the 33 Leonardo helicopters the successful Malaysian operator owns are also a few AW169 and AW189. One AW139 (9M-WAJ) was written off after a hard landing in Subang on June 30, 2011.

Built in March 2005 and registered 5B-CKS, but not taken up by it's owner in Cyprus. So it became HB-FMQ in June 2005, just to be sold to the US as N327SC. Purchased by Adventist Aviation Indonesia in November 2015. Still based in Papua province at time of upload.

ex HB-FQO, then briefly VH-ZKM but always with Yajasi since being built in 2007. Only two PC-12 are used by christian Mission Aviation Services, one of them being PK-UCG based in Sentani-Jayapura, Papua. The other PC-12 (c/n 243 and registered 5Y-MAF) is operated by Mission Aviation Fellowship and based in Nairobi-Wilson, Kenya.

Built in 1978 by Mitsubishi under licence, this Phantom was one of a total of 140 fighters procured by the JASDF between 1971 and 1981. In addition, 14 Recce Phantoms were bought as well in 1974/75.

Built in 2008, this Pilatus Porter carried registration HB-FNG before being delivered to Yeti Airlines in Nepal as 9N-AIU in May of 2009. Already in September that year, it went on to Tara Air (still in Nepal with same reg). Yajasi Indonesia then bought it in July 2012 to replace the ill-fated PK-UCE and operated it in the original Yeti Airlines colors as can be seen in this 2014 picture. Has since been repainted to Yajasi's blue / white color scheme.

Corendon Airlines is an Antalaya based Turkish low cost carrier with ties to the dutch and maltese Corendon group. Founded in 2004 and starting operations in 2005, it now serves many destinations throughout Europe and the Middle East, currently using 12 B737-800 and one B737-8 Max, with 3 more of the latter on order. This particular airframe was built in 2014 and first flew as VT-JFW with Jet Airways in India.

When ordering PC-21 aircraft in late 2019 / early 2020, the Spanish Air Force became the 10th operator of this advanced training system. The airframe pictured here is the first of 24 on order and had it's first flight on December 20, 2020. It is currently used to train the spanish flight instructors. None of the currently six flying spanish PC-21's have been delivered at the time of upload. The PC-21 fleet will be based at Murcia/San Javier (LELC) some 80 kilometers south of Alicante.

In a rather unconventional move in the aviation industry, St Gallen Altenrhein Airport started to operate its own airline in 2011. The name "People's Airlines" is derived from the airport's brand "People's Airport". OE-LMK - currently the airline's sole aircraft - is based in Altenrhein from where it mainly flies scheduled flights to Vienna. However, charter flights are also offered if the schedule allows. For a while, People's actually operated a second EMB-170 registered OE-LTK but had to let it go in 2020 due to the Covid-19 situation.

On July 21, 2021, Swiss airline Chair started to wet-lease a Boeing 737-800 from Polish carrier Enter Air (which owns 49% of Chair). The aircraft operated its first revenue flight - with Chair titles applied - to Skopje that same day and is seen here arriving from Pristina a day later. Chair Airlines so far operated three A319-100's, but now needs additional capacity after one of it was damaged beyond economical repair during a maintenance mishap in 2020. Rumors have it that Chair will soon wet-lease two more of Enter Air's B737-800's.

This particular airframe first flew on August 7, 1997 and was delivered to Garuda Indonesia on December 26, 1997. It served with that airline till it was scrapped in March 2013, after a ground collision with A320 N620SC at Jakarta International during maintenance work a few days earlier, causing a damage beyond economical repair (BER).

ex USAF FY # 76-1669, delivered to the RTAF in 1978, starting service with SQN 102 (coded 10221) and then with SQN 711 (coded 71121). Between January 2000 and January 2009, it flew with SQN 701 out of Surat Thani in Southern Thailand, as code 70121/SRT pictured here reveals. The last code it wore was "70141", still with 701 SQN, before being retired in June 2012.