Emirates Airline have completed painting 40 aircraft in their special livery to promote Expo 2020 in the UAE. A bold move as the livery does not include the name of the airline.
20 Airbus A380s and 20 Boeing 777s have been painted in one of three variations of the livery.Watch our fleet of 40 Expo2020 Dubai-themed aircraft fly around the world spreading awareness and capturing global attention around the much-awaited Expo 202...
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British Airways finally brought all four retro liveries together, alongside the current colours. Shame the weather didn't play ball.The skies may be grey, but our heritage-liveried aircraft are certainly standing out in their first ever picture together... They'll be back in action this afternoon, flying our customers to Belfast, Cape Town, Las Vegas and New York!
A significant milestone for the Historic Helicopters team.
Navy Wessex
Success
G-WSEX comes into land having successfully completed her test fly program
We now await the issue of her full permit
When Robinson R44 G-ILLD was registered last month, it might have just appeared to be another Robinson. But this example marked a significant milestone for importers Sloane Helicopters, as explained below.
Sloane Helicopters have been honoured by Robinson Helicopter Co at Heli-Expo 2019 in Atlanta with a particular mention by Kurt Robinson, president and son of the company founder Frank Robinson, as the first distributor to sell 500 Robinson helicopters. The landmark aircraft R44 Raven II MSN 14297 is registered G-ILLD after arriving from the factory in Zamperini Field, Torrance, CA on the outskirts of Los Angeles.
The collaboration of Sloane and Robinson predates the FAA certification of the R22, forty years ago this month. The company originally was run with a sales office in Fulham, a training school in a Portakabin at Cranfield and maintenance support by Helitech at Luton. In 1989 Sloane Helicopters established its current facility at Sywell, with the opening ceremony performed by Frank Robinson. Star of the show was G-OSHL, which had only just been registered by the CAA and was the landmark 1000th R22. In November 2019 this aircraft passed 10,000 airframe hours. They also have a maintenance base at Enniskillen in Northern Ireland.
The total of 500 is made up as follows
R22 - 300
R44 Cadet - 1
R44 Astro/Raven I - 103
R44 Raven II - 83
R66 Turbine - 13
The photo of G-OSHL comes from our ABPIC site and was taken by Derek Heley at Sywell on July 8 1990
