Highlights 2017 at Madeira
Last year has been marked by the disappearance of 3 major visitors at Madeira Airport: Monarch, Air Berlin and Niki so, the first highlights should be definitely to these airlines that flew the Madeira skies for so many years...
Monarch A321 with sharklets G-ZBAM landing on runway 05 More on Monarch HERE |
Air Berlin A320 special Etihad livery D-ABDU departing from runway 23 More one Air Berlin, HERE |
More on Niki, HERE |
In February made the firsts (and only) shots to Hawker 900XP of Madjet after its complete refiting.
This plane used to be based at Madeira...
Check all pics HERE
In March we had a premiera from down under... :)
First time I got a Royal Australian Air Force plane and also first time we got a C-27 Spartan at Madeira, on a technical stop. Check HERE
A34-004 departing from runway 05 |
CS-TKN and CS-TGU |
In April, Brussels Airlines made its first flight to Madeira:
A319 OO-SSM being received with the water salute on the airline's first flight to Madeira. check HERE |
D-ABUI, check HERE
Continuing in April, finally made a few shots to Easyjet's Shakespeare special livery, G-EZBI. Check HERE
In May, we had an Air Tractor and a couple of helicopters for some aerial fire fighting tests at Madeira...
Spanish EC-LNT, during the take-off for the tests:
More of the Air Tractor, HERE |
Check HERE
In June we had, for the first time, Air Europa's B737, with a series of charter flights from Spain.
Check HERE
EC-MKL departing from runway 23 with 30th aniversary special sticker. More, HERE |
In July, Aerovip brought another Jetstream to ensure the inter-island route while the usual CS-DVQ went to the mainland for a deep maintenance...
Swedish registration SE-FVP arriving for the first time at Madeira. Check HERE |
Also in July, Arke (Tui Nederland) made a few flights with something diferent: A canadian registration (Sunwing) B738 with a Tui Family Life special livery:
C-FTOH lining up to runway 05. More, HERE |
Check HERE
Now the flights are beeing made with an ATR-72, by Swiftair, which has already flew several cargo flights to Madeira, with the B737 and ATR-42 |
In August, a UEFA competitions provided us another premiere...Ukranian Wind Rose came for the first time at Madeira, with Dynamo Kiev, to play to local team C.S.Marítimo. Check HERE
There was another premiere regarding the UEFA championship but didn't manage to get it...an A319 of the Bulgaria Government. |
In September, a birdstrike in the nose of Tuifly D-ATUH provided us another nice traffic, although not for the first time...Ukraine Air Alliance An-12 UR-GCV had to bring another nose to the grounded plane...Check HERE
Also in September, got another Arke from Sunwing...C-GOWG, more HERE:
In October, Brussels Airlines finally started flying to Madeira with the A320 opening the possibility of getting some special liveries...and it did...first A320 flight was made with OO-SNA (Red Devils livery). Check HERE
Also in October, and due to the backrupt of Air Berlin, Eurowings started flying to Madeira. The first flight was made....with an Air Berlin plane........
More, HERE
A320 D-ABFC |
October was a really nice month, regarding highlights... :)
at the end of the month we got, for the first time, a Royal Canadian Air Force C-130, on a technical night-stop. Check HERE
130613 landing on runway 05 |
More HERE
In December, finally got my first pic of a Eurowings plane..Check HERE
A319 D-AGWD landing on runway 05 |
Also in December it was time for Brussels Airlines "Magritte" to visit us...(there are still a few special liveries to come....hello!!! Brussels!), check HERE
OO-SNC landing at runway 05, on a dull day... |
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