Air Livery Movements

[User0001]

As seen as the air livery and the Thomas Cook hangar are responsible for a large chunk of interesting visitors at MAN, I thought it a good idea to have a thread for these 2 hangars.


To start off:

Currently in Air Livery:

Lufthansa A340-600 D-AIHV. Due out 16th April.

Next into Air Livery:

Virgin Atlantic A340-600 G-VGAS. It has already arrived on 14th April.

Currently in Thomas Cook hangar:

Condor B767-300/w D-ABUK
Condor A321 D-AIAA

Next in Thomas Cook hangar:

Condor B757-300 unknown arrival.

 

[User0001]

Condor A320 D-AICN has now arrived for the Thomas Cook hangar.

 

[TheLocalYokel]

user001

Thank you for this thread. I shall find it of interest and I'm sure others will too.

When Air Livery moved from Filton to MAN in July 2009 was that to expand an existing Air Livery facility at MAN?

I've posted a link in the Fiton thread to the last six months' work at Air Livery, Filton in the first part of 2009 with further pages accessible showing the activity in the preceding years.

 

[User0001]

Hi there.

Thank you for your kind words.

When Air Livery moved from Filton to MAN, it was a new facility, as Air Livery had not previously owned a hangar at MAN.

The hangar they have at MAN was previously owned by British Airways, for maintenance on the MAN fleet of B737/B757 and B767's.

It went empty for a long time, only used on a 'rent by the hour' basis, and the only memory I personally have of the hangar used before AL was to fix a Dragonair B747-400 after a landing incident at MAN.

Air Livery now have the main repaint contracts for Lufthansa and Virgin Atlantic, with lots of other airlines coming in for a re-spray.

So far this year, off memory, MAN has seen for repaint:

RAF A330 (There have been 3, but 1 was last year, and 2 this year)
Virgin A340-600
Lufthansa B747-400 and A340-600 (the Lufthansa narrowbodies go to Norwich)
Ukraine international B737-800
Brussels Airlines A330-200
Vueling A320
Air Algerie A330-200

Over the time Air Livery has been at MAN, the visitors include:

Iberia A340-300
Virgin B747/A340-300/A340-600
Austrian B767-300
Skyways Australia A320
Orient Thai B747-400
Monarch A330-200

Air Livery is certainly a good source of visitors to MAN, and I daresay one of the best hangars in the UK for bringing in rare visitors.

Also, another due into the Thomas Cook hangar is:

Thomas Cook Scandinavia A321 OY-VKA on 24th April.

 

[TheLocalYokel]

Many thanks for the additional information in your latest post.

 

[User0001]

Air Livery:

Lufthansa A340-600 D-AIHV has now departed and Virgin A340-600 G-VGAS is now being towed into the hangar.

Thomas Cook:

Thomas Cook Scandinavia A330-200 OY-VKF is arriving at MAN in the next 10 minutes for the TCX hangar as VKG9716.

 

[Aviador]

Only just caught up with this thread after a couple of weeks spell away from the forum. Great idea for a thread User001. :hatsoff:

 

[User0001]

G-VGAS A346-600 of Virgin has now left the Air Livery hangar.

Austrian Airlines A320 OE-LBJ has now taken its place.

 

[User0001]

Another Air Livery movement.

D-AEAI A300 of DHL arriving 4th at 0800 as BCS020P.

An ex JAL domestic aircraft, so not a common airliner in the UK.

 

[User0001]

Been away for a few days but in the past few days, a brand new A330 MRT has been put into air Livery to receive its first ever paint job.

In the TCX hangar, a Thomas Cook Belgium A320 has recently gone on, reg unknown at this time.

 

[User0001]

D-ABUA Condor B767 has just arrived for the TCX hangar.

 

[User0001]

Next in for Air Livery:

D-AIHU A340-600 of Lufthansa. Due at 1535 tomorrow.

Currently in at Monarch Engineering:

RAF (air tanker) A330.

 

[User0001]

Air Livery:

D-AIHU A340-600 of Lufthansa has now gone.

Kazhak government A330-200 UP-A3001 has arrived after a retfit at Hamburg and now for a quick re-spray. A very very rare visitor to the UK.

Thomas Cook:

B767-300 D-ABUC has now arrived and is awaiting its turn for the hangar.

 

[TheLocalYokel]

Anything particularly noteworthy been in during recent times?

 

[User0001]

(add that it doesn't seem to generate much interest aside from 2-3 people).

 

[Ray Finkle]

Ooops I meant to quote the above post from user001 but in error I've edited it, I'm not sure I can restore it.

Apologies user001.

 

[User0001]

No problem.

To re cap the post:

Last in was Windrose Ukraine A330-200 painted in a rather bright scheme.

Currently in is G-VGOA A340-600 Virgin Atlantic painted into all white as its at the end of its lease.

Next in is apparently a Lufthansa B747-400 but unconfirmed at present.

 

[Aviador]

(add that it doesn't seem to generate much interest aside from 2-3 people).

This thread has over a thousand views so it's pretty popular. It's just a shame more don't post a response in appreciation to your contribution.

 

[Ray Finkle]

Agreed, I enjoy reading the comings and goings.

 

[User0001]

Next into Air Livery is now D-AEAD A300-600F for DHL.

Like the last DHL visitor, this is currently in basic JAL colours and was formerly a domestic frame.

Forgot to add it is due about 1300 tomorrow (wed)