10 Years Ago....

...Sata was making the inter-island flights with the British Aerospace ATP :)

It was those kind of planes that (in my opinion) was really ugly but definitely makes some memories :)

CS-TGX taxiing to runway 05 for the trip to Porto Santo.
Since then, Sata had the Dash Q200 on this route, beeing replaced by Aerovip, with the Dornier 228 and the BAe Jetstream.
Currently the route is beeing made (since June) by Binter, with the ATR-72

Recordando o ATP

Continuando numa senda de memórias esquecidas...ao tratar a foto do A310 da TAP (ver AQUI), reparei noutra pequena pérola que tinha ficado por tratar, de tão habitual que era na altura mas, que hoje em dia é uma bela recordação: o BAe ATP da Sata, CS-TGX, que fazia os voos inter-ilhas Madeira-Porto Santo...

Podem ver mais algumas fotos destes aparelho AQUI e do ATP AQUI

Cargueiros na rota Lisboa - Madeira - Lisboa

Com a saída da West Air Sweden (West Air Europe) e dos seus ATP's dos voos de carga Lisboa-Madeira-Lisboa, decidi fazer uma pequena retrospectiva dos aparelhos/companhias que têm vindo a efectuar esta rota e que deverá ter um novo aparelho, com o regresso da Swiftair à linha...

EC-KDJ da Flyant descolando da 23.

Parelha da Flyant, EC-KDJ e EC-JUV
A companhia espanhola acabaria por fechar no final desse ano (Dezembro 2008)

Com umas cores bem mais interessantes (opinião pessoal) veio depois a igualmente espanhola Swiftair
EC-KLR

A Europe Airpost também marcou presença por cá na versão carga, além dos já habituais voos de passageiros (F-GIXR)

Este aparelho da Saicus Air não esteve por cá muito tempo e apenas o apanhei uma vez quando saia da Região e o  EC-KDJ estava ali ao lado. Por curiosidade, este aparelho já tinha andado por cá, com as cores Flyant.

EC-KRA da Swiftair, em versão frigorífico....

Entretanto a Agroar sempre utilizou um aparelho com títulos seus nesta operação, o ZS-SMJ da Sul-Africana Safair

Tivemos igualmente o "Pepsi-Cola", TF-BBE, da Bluebird, com umas cores bastante interessantes.

e, por fim o ATPs (Aka Patinhas de Cachorro) , que foi um corte com os já habituais Boeing 737 e motivo de algumas piadas e dúvidas relativamente à operação por parte de um aparelho deste tipo para cá....
LX-WAE da West Air Europe, que depois passou a ser West Air Sweden e agora, aparentemente, passou a outra coisa qualquer e que fez o último voo de carga para cá na semana passada....

Week Photo: Farewell to the ATP

Looks like West Air Europe's ATP last cargo flight to Madeira was made last week.
Next week we should have another company/plane carrying through the daily cargo flights between Lisbon and Madeira...

West Air Europe's LX-WAE ATP taking off from runway 23 to Lisbon.
Still one of my fav pics of this plane...

Nova foto da semana: ATP de Carga

Apesar do ATP não ser propriamente o turboprop mais bonito que por aí voa, é sem dúvida uma referência na aviação inter-ilhas portuguesas, pela sua passagem/utilização por parte da Sata quer nos Açores quer na Madeira, na rota Madeira - Porto Santo.

Suponho que sejam cada vez mais raros os exemplares deste aparelho da British Aerospace pelo que o voo diário de carga entre Lisboa e a Madeira, assume um papel importante na manutenção do espírito/permanência do ATP entre nós.

Fica a fotos da semana, num registo já de Fevereiro, com a descolagem do LX-WAE da West Air Europe no regresso a Lisboa.

ATP de Carga

Por hoje fica apenas este registo, já de Fevereiro deste ano, da chegada do ATP LX-WAE da West Air Europe, que efectua os voos diários de carga entre Lisboa e a Madeira.

German CitationJet

On the day of Volotea's premiere (check HERE) there was also the departure of this german bizjet that had been around here for a couple of days: D-CHRC

on the back West Air Europe's BAe ATP LX-WAE was unloading the cargo from its daily flight from Lisbon.

The departure of the german Cessna C-525C CitationJet

West Air Europe

Despite it's a daily flight, it's allways nice to get some pics of the cargo West Lux (after all, this was only the second time I got it this year....)

Runway 23 was in use once more and despit the last take off as more interesting (check HERE), still was very good to see the old ATP getting up in the air....

LX-WAE departing to Lisbon

West Air Europe cargo flights

When Sata got rid of its ATP's I thought it was the last time I'd seen those kind of birds around...
With the dayly cargo flights beeing made by West Air Europe, we've seen the ATP's return and with quite a change of registrations...

These were taken on the same day of the EH-101 (check HERE)

LX-WAV taxiing to runway 05

Looks like that tail as seen better days...

Early take off, from runway 05, to Lisbon

A bit of Saturday afternoon...

Yesterday, despite the crappy weather, decided to go to the airport, to get Lufthansa's D-AILU, the Jetfriends.com logojet...
Air Berlin's One World livery D-ABME was also on its way, from Munich...

When I got to the airport, a bit of sun was opening, just in time for the unexpected arrival of the cargo flight, West Lux (West Air Europe) ATP LX-WAV (first time I got this registration)

For the landing of Lufthansa's D-AILU, and despite the sun at Ponta de S.Lourenço, the weather was already getting a bit dark....

Short final to runway 23

Not too fancy but still diferent and more interesting than just the regular livery

On runway 23 treshold, there were a few tourists that didn't seem to be the usual spotter type but still couldn't resist to make a few shots on this spot...
(Easyjet's G-EZBJ landing on 23)

Lining up on 23....

CS-TNM, from TAP also lining up on runway 23

After this, the weather was getting real dark, so decided to forget the Air Berlin's One World and headed home....

West Air Europe

Looks like the choice of West Air Europe is to keep on the Lisbon-Madeira-Lisbon cargo route...

On the day of the premiere of "Hans" at Madeira, Condor's retro (check HERE), I also got some shots of the cargo ATP, with a bit of wind strugling on final to 05...

LX-WAE

Memories - The white Cook and a few more memories

You realise your pics aren't that well organized when you take a really long time to find some pic...

Usually I hate white planes (fridges...) but some time ago, I remembered of a white Thomas Cook that I had photographed some years ago which looked quite nice, the problem was finding those pics...

Well finally got it. I still think this is a rather nice "fridge" and was the only time I caught one of these...

G-TCAC, a white Thomas Cook...

Browsing the other pics of the day, found some stuff worth remembering....

G-OOBJ, that is already on Thomson livery...

  

With the last one you realise that stuff really changes...
On the front G-SAAW, from FlyGlobespan, that went bankrupt.

On the push-back, G-BYAD, back then on Thomson, and now N901NV on service with Allegiant Air and finally old Sata's ATP CS-TGX, now replaced with the Q200 (and Q400)...

Getting the rudder back

A few days ago I wondered when would CS-TGL fly again?
Well, last Thursday, besides the interest of all the traffic that came to retrieve the passengers held by a few days of airspace closed due to the ashes, I had the luck to see the operation to mount the tail rudder back on CS-TGL.

Was told that it might leave tomorow to Ponta Delgada. If so, then these were the last pics I took of it, as tomorow I won't be going for sure to the airport....

Getting things ready behind the tail...

Meanwhile, just a few meters away, new generation of prop transportation was continuing the legacy of the old ATP...

When?....

When will it fly again?

Any news on the CS-TGL?

Domestic flights Premiere

Last March, 28th Transavia France made its premiere on domestic flights to Madeira.

It started the (Paris) Porto - Madeira - Porto (Paris) route.

A local newspaper stated that the first flight would be received by the Fire Dept. water canons so I decided to go to the area behind the apron...there would be plenty of days to photograph regular landings but a water canon "bath" is allways something special....

I got late and when I arrived at the area behind the apron, noticed that there wasn't going on any kind of movements from the Fire Dept. and realised that there wasn't gona be any "bath"...

Though of going for the landing but by then, the plane was already coming into final...no time for the landing...stayed there just for the record...planes slowly taxiing aren't really my favorites....
Landed on 23....

Lots of people on the balcony but at that time, TAP's A330 was preparing to depart to Caracas, which also brings a lot of people to the airport, for the last good-byes, so can't really tell if the Transavia brought many people to the airport...

Meanwhile, the Aeroclub's Piper was departing for a local flight...

(Looks like that door isn't fitting completly right....)

Old Sata's ATP was still waiting for the tail rudder....

Decided to wait for the departure of the A330 to Caracas but Transavia got ready first and departed back to Porto with an early take-off from runway 23....

And finnally, TAP departed to Caracas....

You can check a few more pics of the TAP's departure HERE, as it was already highlighted as Photo of the Week.