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Civil Aviation => Modern Civil Aircraft => Topic started by: smudge on February 06, 2015, 10:07:19 PM

Title: How many of these have flown over...
Post by: smudge on February 06, 2015, 10:07:19 PM

...Nothern Ireland and the neightbouring airspace?

Per my logs, number seen as ratio of number delivered to date

A380:  108 / 169 
747-8: 49 / 94
787-8: 81 / 223
787-9: 5 /14

The 787-9 is interesting; in addition to the three Virgin examples, there was Boeing's demonstrator N789EX last July and on 17 October UAL5 was operated by N38950.

Incidentally I'm surprised that N789EX was permitted to use callsign BOE787. Hearing ATC addressing 'Boeing 787' could, you'd think, be confusing.

Title: Re: How many of these have flown over...
Post by: Merlin on February 06, 2015, 10:48:14 PM

I'm actually more surprised by the A380 tally.

I didn't think so many of the total fleet had flown over NI given that, if memory serves, Emirates has the largest fleet currently and from looking at their route map the majority of them operate from Dubai to either Europe or Aisa.

Out of the remaining operators, who flies over NI?

My guess is:
BA
Air France
Lufthansa
Singapore
Thai

Does Korean Air Lines?

Don't think Etihad or Quantas do but I may be wrong  :)

Title: Re: How many of these have flown over...
Post by: smudge on February 06, 2015, 10:58:44 PM

Good question! I'll do a query tomorrow to break-out by operator...

Title: Re: How many of these have flown over...
Post by: smudge on February 07, 2015, 07:00:35 AM

A380

Distinct airframes by operator callsign

Code: [Select]

AFR 10
BAW 08
DLH 12
KAL 02
MAS 06
QFA 05
SIA 19
THA 04
UAE 42
   ===
   108
The Korean, Malaysian, Thai and QANTAS ones were surprising!  Bear in mind these are all direct Mode-S reception from Ards, not shared through Planeplotter or whatever.  Those ones were all on Heathrow services.

I'll do some plotting and see where they were...