Crete Heraklion/Kazantzakis sept 2015 CIV (and pres mil)

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Crete Heraklion/Kazantzakis sept 2015 CIV (and pres mil)

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While on holiday in Crete, I managed a few short visits to Heraklion /Kazantzakis. Though there is still military activity, I felt confident enough to take pics from the beach near the approach. Traffic can be hectic, or really, really slow at times.


First visit sept 17, I was quite happy with G-POWI A320 Titan, but later it turned out to be a regular.
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New Aegean with ''flaporen'', SX-DGZ, delivered only three months before I saw it.
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Loads of Thomson (737 , 767 and 787) like G-TAWD here.
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Still in Danish c/s, SX-LOS of Sky Express.
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Same airline, SX-ROD, landing on the cross-runway.
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Last year I saw their Mad Dog all the time, now this 737-400 flew for Blue Bird.
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Smartwings and Travel service fly to HER many times a day, this is OK-TVW.
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For me, Transaero was one of my main goals, and at that time I didn\t even know they were about to collapse... Here T7 EI-UNY.
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Another nice local, ASTRA with a nice deep blue ATR-72, SX-DIP
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Second visit, saturday September 19. A bit hazy, but still some nice catches.

First to arrive was LY-VEL, operating for Condor.
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Some italians this day, like NEOS 738.

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I somehow missed the fact that Primera used baltic serials.... :oops: like YL-PSH here.
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Really like their almost retro colours, Meridiana EI-FFK.
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A well known Embraer, HB-JVP used to be OE-IHE (NIKI)
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Just for fun sake...another Transaero, 767 EI-UND
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Short visit on sept 27, from 14.15 till 16.15. Turned out to be Smapp Planet day, six new planes (for me) of this airline!

Polish Planet SP-HAE, a former Chinese A320
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British biggy, Thomson 767 G-OBYH
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One of only a handfull Airbusses of this airline, OK-HCB
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Small Planet Baltic-bus LY-SPF
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On september 28 we drove to chania, we made a small detour for this museum in Chromonastiri.
Former Greek miltary Cessna U-17...
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..and this unknown UH-1. I did see the c/n-plate, but couldn't read the serial.... (anyone??)
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Small hit and run for the Thomson 787 a day later, and got a 717 as bonus!

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All good things end, and whilst on board our taxi back, I was able to get these..

OK-TVM travelservice
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D-ABKI former Air Berlin, now TUI
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OM-GTD, very white, for travelservice/smartwings.
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Did you happen to ID the Hellenic Air Force AB.205 on SAR detachment there during your time?
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for the 2 preserved aircraft check:
http://www.eurodemobbed.org.uk/location ... ation=8498

(please send in both pictures to update the Eurodemobbed site!)

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erik_kamphuis wrote:for the 2 preserved aircraft check:
http://www.eurodemobbed.org.uk/location ... ation=8498

(please send in both pictures to update the Eurodemobbed site!)

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Hi Erik,
thanks for your info. I had found that info as well, but also other contradichting info, that's why I tried to read the c/n plate. Some sources also claim it's actually ES633 (72-21496) which was dbr in 1994...
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Great set of pictures, thanks for sharing mr Polecat :wink:
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