Yorkshire Spotters

WEEKLY SUMMARY DURING LOCKDOWN 22nd - 28th  May

DUE'S TUE 26TH with credit to Del B

D-IBAR BE20 0900/1130
OO-LUM FA7X 1000/1030 BAF90
C-FEMC LJ45 1130/-
G-SICB BN2P 1330/-    DCT02

Credits for all movements and photos that are supplied on the blog pages go to each of our kind members on the YS email group.

Until things improve it is our intention to summarise the week in a basic bullet point format owing to the low level of activity at the airport, we still appreciate every input from our members and this will be added to this page as the week unfolds. Thank you as ever for your continued support. Stay safe Mark & Danny

Monthly review in motion 2020 selected highlights only

LBA will now only be open on Tuesday and Wednesdays and alternate Fridays from 0800-1600. Helicopter movements will be allowed from Multiflight from 0700-1900. All other times PPR via ATC.

Friday 22nd - For a change it was just that little bit busier with Austrian Cessna Mustang OE-FZB making the first of two visits arriving from Geneva at 0815 c/s GAC589U and departing 25 minutes later to Lille using GAC478V. PA28 G-THKE departed at 0925 to Eshott near Alnwick. Beech 90 M-TSRI arrived shortly after 10am from Newcastle and remained here until 1605 when it left for Chester Hawarden. RAF C17 ZZ171 joined the hold above Leeds at 1345 it stayed with us until 1425 making only 1 full ILS approach at 1420. OE-FZB completed the days events with its second visit ariving as GAC478W from Lille and an hou later departing to Paris Le Bourget.

RAF C17 ZZ171 over Horsforth By Neil

Globemaster ZZ171 Backlit over the LBA By Jeff

In the hold above the airport RAF C17 ZZ171 By Jeff

Saturday 23rd -Nil

Sunday 24th -Nil

Monday 25th -Nil

Tuesday 26th - A Bumper day here at Leeds.
Morning The first inbound movement of today was King Air D-IBAR arriving from Dusseldorf at 0910. Jet2s PA31 G-IFIT departed at 0815 to Dublin and returned later at 1255 prior to an engineering fleet arrival mentioned later in todays news. Another King Air in the form of G-IASB c/s MDI8 made the short hop down from Durham at 0915 and took off againat 1010 on a local area flight before landing once again at 1035. Next up joining the overhead at approximately 1025 was Belgian Air Force FA7X OO-LUM c/s BAF90 conducting some hold patterns before landing at 1042 and taking off at 1110 for Newquay. As the morning wore on SR22 N590SD left Multiflight engineering at 1050 toward Sherburn and  G-IASB departed at 1130 back to Durham and at 1135 the German King Air D-IBAR departed back to Dusseldorf.

Afternoon Midday saw the arrival of the Canadian Learjet 40 C-FEMC from Keflavik. Jet2 made a couple of swaps as recorded in the fleet list below, but one addition was B733 G-GDFL EXS051F returning to us from Dublin landing at Leeds at 1349. Another fine example of a Britten Norman Islander arrived from Aberdeen as G-SICB touched down at 1415. PA28 G-LTFB made an ILS approach at 1530 before heading to Leeds East. Finally French Citation 525 F-HBTV c/s ASJ724 was our final caller arriving from Le Bourget at 1540 and departed in the opposite direction at 1605.

FA7X OO-LUM By Ian S

King Air G-IASB By Ian S

Wednesday 27th -Quite another busy day for Leeds as first out of the blocks was Canadian Learjet C-FEMC leaving for Keflavik at 0950. Cessna 404 G-BWLF arrived from East Midlands at 1010 and returned there leaving us at 1420 c/s REV4LF. For a second day in a row Belgian FA7X arrived at 1020 for a brief stop departing at 1040 for Dublin c/s BAF91. Islander G-SICB took to the skies at 1150 and remained in the local zone for a short time before heading towards Gamston, it later returned to Leeds landing around 1335.
A number of g/a movements included G-ROLY C172 arriving from Netherthorpe at 1300, DA42 G-HAKA departing Leeds to Gamston at 1310 c/s DCT07 and a couple of touch and goes at 1500 and 1510 by PA28's G-AVRK  and G-BODE respectively.

FA7X OO-LUM departing By Mark Dobson

OO-LUM taxies for Multiflight by Mark Dobson

Thursday 28th -Nil


Current Storage at Leeds
B738 G-DRTZ remains at Leeds as inactive undergoing service entry maintenance and arrived here on 7th Dec 2019.

Reg	Type	Date Arrived	Date Departed	From	To
G-GDFB	B733	15/03/2020		Faro
G-GDFN	B733	17/03/2020		Amsterdam
G-GDFO	B733	16/03/2020		Nice
G-GDFK	B733	19/03/2020		Manchester
G-GDFM	B733	21/03/2020		Faro
G-GDFV	B738	21/03/2020		Alicante
G-JZHJ	B738	21/03/2020		Leeds
G-JZHT	B738	21/03/2020		Antalya
G-JZBM	B738	21/03/2020		Gran Canaria
G-DRTC	B738	21/03/2020		Lanzarote
G-GDFT	B733	21/03/2020		Faro
G-JZBL	B738	21/03/2020		Alicante
G-LSAJ	B752	21/03/2020		Fuerteventura
G-JZHK	B738	21/03/2020		Malaga
G-JZHC	B738	23/03/2020		Newcastle
G-GDFZ	B738	13/05/2020	26/05/2020		Stansted
G-GDFL	B738	26/05/2020		Dublin