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A selection of photos from the "viewing wall" at Malta's Luqa airport


Alitalia's MD82 I-DATA landing with flight AZ886 from Rome Fiumicino

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Swiss International Air Lines Airbus A340 HB-JMD was performing "touch and go" circuit training all day, impressive, but it got boring after a while, it managed 16 takeoff/landings in the 4 hours I was there.

Taxiing off the stands.......

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Holding whilst Fokker F27-500 I-MLUT lands with MiniLiner/Farnair Europe flight MNL357 from Rome Ciampino

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Taking off

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A short flight around the Island at 2000 feet

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.....and landing.......

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....and taking off again

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Air Berlin's D-ABBK, a Boeing 737-800, flight AB1348 from Nuremberg

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Stored at Medavia's overhaul and repair facility was 5N-BBQ a BAC 1-11 new to Court Line in 1970, it later flew for Dan Air and British World Airlines before passing to Nigeria's Albarka Air Service

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I-DATA rotates with flight AZ885 to Milan Malpensa

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Lufthansa's Airbus A321 D-AIRA lands with flight LH4106 from Frankfurt

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Air Malta's Airbus A319, landing with flight KM513 from Vienna

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Libyan Arab Airlines 5A-DIH, a Boeing 727-200, delivered in 1978, lands with flight LN144 from Tripoli and taxis to the stands

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Last one....

Air Malta's 9H-ADI, a Boeing 737-300, lands with flight KM613 from from Rome Fiumicino

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Cheers,

Andy.

Nice photos!

Great photos Andy.
The comments/bit of history was nice too.