UK - Scotland Aviation News

Joint Warrior 2012

3rd October 2012, 13:42 CET, UK - Scotland, 2051 views

Portfolio of pictures from the second part of Exercise Joint Warrior from Full Member Liam Paul McBride...

Leuchars Air Show

19th September 2012, 22:32 CET, UK - Scotland, 1438 views

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Emirates starts second Glasgow Dubai flight

2nd June 2012, 08:14 CET, UK - Scotland, 1577 views

Emirates Airlines have started their second daily Glasgow to Dubai flights in grand style with a water cannon salute from the Air port Fire Service.

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2012 Exercise Joint Warrior gets underway

14th April 2012, 13:47 CET, UK - Scotland, 4246 views

The Royal Navy will test its ability to deal with major events, such as a terrorist attack on the Olympics, in a major exercise two week exercise.

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Antonov delivers the goods for Elgin

8th April 2012, 13:27 CET, UK - Scotland, 1507 views

Engineers preparing an operation to stop the gas leak on an offshore platform have welcomed the arrival of specialist equipment key to the plan.

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French rugby charters at Edinburgh

24th February 2012, 17:25 CET, UK - Scotland, 1979 views

The Scotland v. France rugby match brings in a good number of French fans, The charters kicked off early with the arrival of a Slovakian registered B737. Lots...

Heathrow weather diversions at Prestwick

5th February 2012, 22:18 CET, UK - Scotland, 1867 views

Heathrow Airport has canceled approximately third of 1200 flights on Sunday, due to heavy snow. Up to 10cm (4in) of snow fell on Saturday night.

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Loganair - Scotland's Airline celebrating 50 years

30th January 2012, 17:00 CET, UK - Scotland, 1450 views

Loganair began in 1962 as the air taxi service of the Logan Construction Company Ltd, operating a single Piper Aztec from Edinburgh. Almost immediately, it was...

Giant Pandas arrive to Edinburgh in a special-liveried FedEx 777

4th December 2011, 17:11 CET, UK - Scotland, 3160 views

Edinburgh Zoo's got new Giant Pandas Tian Tian and Yang Guang from Chengdu, China. FedEx named the Boeing 777-200F, registration N892FD, a Panda Express...

British Airways Cargo 747-800F

7th November 2011, 20:04 CET, UK - Scotland, 2690 views

Global Supply System took delivery of their first Boeing 747-800F freighter aircraft, registration G-GSSD. it is leased from Atlas Air and is operated by...

Canadians head home

2nd November 2011, 18:04 CET, UK - Scotland, 1565 views

The Canadian Armed Forces deployment as part of the NATO operations in Libya has come to an end and they are on their way home, staging though Prestwick....

Afghan Air Force Ce182s delivered through Prestwick

26th September 2011, 21:14 CET, UK - Scotland, 2826 views

The second batch of Ce172s transited through Prestwick Airport on their delivery flight to Afghanistan. Photos from Full Member Bob Logan...

British Airways go Polar

2nd September 2011, 04:09 CET, UK - Scotland, 1526 views

The British Airways maintenance facility at Glasgow Airport has taken over the former Polar hangar at Prestwick Airport in an effort to ease their maintenance...

KLM celebrates 65 years of flying to Scotland

18th August 2011, 09:48 CET, UK - Scotland, 1863 views

On 2nd June 1946 a DC-3 of KLM first landed in Scotland. To celebrate this the airline sent the C-47 Skytrain PH-PBA on a tour of the country visiting Glasgow,...

Loganair - possible expansion and new routes?

28th July 2011, 16:27 CET, UK - Scotland, 1639 views

An unconfirmed source has indicated that following the purchase of the former ScotAirways Dornier 328s from from Suckling Airways that Loganair intend to...