Aircraft Flying Overhead [OTT]

[mullion]

You did I think it was UR-CAJ An-12 which is decending in to Prestwick

 

[oldendays]

Thanks mullion.

 

[leedslad]

On my return discovered they have just filled a few patches, no major difference sadly.

 

[oldendays]

Has an Antonov just passed overhead ? I heard a heavy-sounding prop at 1.37pm.

 

[twevsmiff]

At 1335 today heard heavy propjet noise overhead and rushed but could see nothing even though it was partially clear skies.
Checked on radar and just passed directly overhead the airport:-

Lockheed CP-140 Aurora 140116 showing cruising at 28000' heading North.
Canadian Air Force operated version of the P-3 Orion, A classic aircraft.

 

[oldendays]

Thanks twev.

 

[BarnsleyHolidays]

Just visiting Otley this morning and heard what sounded like an Antonov 12 in the overhead around 1000hrs. Researched this one and found 'TUAF401', a Turkish Air Force C130E, reg 6313188, north westwards.

BH

 

[oldendays]

Morning all. I saw what looked like a 737 fly overhead southbound at about 6.15 this morning. At about 4000 feet. I thought it might be inbound but it wasn't. Any ideas ?

 

[jw2k]

Morning all. I saw what looked like a 737 fly overhead southbound at about 6.15 this morning. At about 4000 feet. I thought it might be inbound but it wasn't. Any ideas ?

Not sure if this is what you saw, but I just had a look on FR24 playback and there was a Cathay Pacific flight (CX219) from Hong Kong descending into Manchester at that time, which passed directly over LBA at 9000 feet, heading SW. Might have been that? It was an A350, but at a higher altitude than your estimate, so could make sense.

 

[oldendays]

Could well have been that. There was nothing else that I could see at the time. A widebody Airbus at 9000 ft probably looks much the same size as 737 at 4000.

On a nice course to intercept the 23R localiser but the intermediate approach routing strikes me as odd.

 

[LBA4EVER]

Due to where I live I always hear the late eve aeromexico flights pass over,one out of heathrow and the other from paris both to mexicocity. I guess they pass this way due to the curve of the planet

 

[twevsmiff]

Passing directly over the airfield at 1325 was Citationjet 3 N320CJ(ex D-CEFD), which had departed Doncaster on delivery back to USA.

 

[lbaspotter]

Not something you see everyday around these parts, But we have a Sun Country Airlines Boeing 737-800, N821SY about to pass overhead the airfield at 40,000ft heading North West as "SCX8978"

 

[a300boy]

Too cloudy for a spot !

 

[Finger66]

Sun Country in a Cloudy County then

 

[a300boy]

Good un !

 

[oldendays]

Sun Country is a name from the past. Dan-Air often used to lease a 727 or two to them during their winter downtime.

 

[a300boy]

Yes they did more or less every winter in the 80s !
I never got to take one over the pond but my colleagues informed me they were escorted from the airfield after arrival by the local pilot union reps to make sure they could not fly internally within the United States.

 

[twevsmiff]

Army Wildcat ZZ393(Valiant 61) routing just East of airfield(1705) virtually in formation with Chinook ZH892(Vortex 410) anf ollowed by another Wildcat ZZ385(Valiant 62) aprrox 5 minutes behind

 

[twevsmiff]

1300-
Just entering the zone from South is Robinson R.44 D-HBAM, to overfly the field inbound to Coney Park