Tuscany area

[mick]

Spent a non-spotting week in Tuscany for Babysitting duties for my wife and myself whilst our son and daughter in law attended a wedding.
We flew out of Heathrow on 22nd August to Bologna on G-EUUM A320 of BA arriving around 90 minutes later
The only thing of note for me at LHR was XA-FLY - Embraer ERJ-135BJ of FlyMex.

There wasn’t much on arrival at Bologna seen although I managed to scrape
9H-QCF Boeing B.737NG 8AS Malta Air
HA-LXR Airbus A321 231 Wizz Air

The following week was spent in and around Tuscany, we stayed in Bologna for a night before moving onto Firenze (Florence) for two nights before moving onto Montepulciano for the Wedding and Baby Sitting duties before driving to Pisa and home
Other than Bologna and Pisa no airports were visited but a few bits were caught OTT by way of ADU Have I seen it as follows
To be honest it wasn’t exactly exciting spotting wise with loads of Malta Air and a few biz. I suppose plenty of gap fillers.

23 August

I-KLIO Leonardo AW.169 69084 Babcock MCS Italia

25 August OTT Firenze (Florence)

EC-NBC Airbus A319 112 1884 Volotea
I-ADJY Embraer ERJ-195 200LR 19000300 Air Dolomiti
OO-WLP Bombardier Global 6500 60047 Luxaviation Belgium
9H-QAU Boeing B.737NG 800 44800 Malta Air
EC-MOX Bombardier CRJ 1000 NG 19053 Iberia Regional
OE-GDR Cessna Citation CJ4 525525C0118 Salzburg Jet Aviation GmbH

26 August OTT Tuscany

9H-QCW Boeing B.737NG 8AS 44745 Malta Air
9H-QDC Boeing B.737NG 800 44752 Malta Air
9H-QDF Boeing B.737NG 800 44755 Malta Air
9H-QDO Boeing B.737NG 800 44764 Malta Air
9H-QEF Boeing B.737NG 800 44824 Malta Air
9H-QEH Boeing B.737NG 800 44823 Malta Air
EC-MTL Airbus A319 111 2053 Volotea
EC-NQN Airbus A320 214 4675 Volotea
HB-JXO Airbus A320 214 8390 easyJet Switzerland
LZ-PRS Boeing B.737 4Y0 24686 VoyageAir
N979JW Dassault Aviation Falco184 S.C. Johnson & Son Inc
OE-LSM Airbus A320 251n 10142 easyJet Europe

27 August OTT Tuscany

9H-QCZ Boeing B.737NG 8AS 44748 Malta Air
9H-QDA Boeing B.737NG 800 44750 Malta Air
9H-QDW Boeing B.737NG 800 44772 Malta Air
D-BDCA Dassault Aviation Falco320 DC Aviation GmbH
EC-NTL Airbus A320 216 3846 Volotea
EI-HBB Bombardier CRJ 1000 NG 19049 Hibernian Airlines
F-HZUF Airbus A220 300 55149 Air France
HA-LJD Airbus A320 271n 10129 Wizz Air
HA-LVG Airbus A321 271nx 8997 Wizz Air
N652WE Gulfstream Aerospace G66483 Eric Schmidt / Google
OE-LSJ Airbus A320 251n 9110 easyJet Europe
SU-GFJ Airbus A320 251n 9473 Egypt Air
TC-JSE Airbus A321 231 5450 Turkish Airlines

28 August OTT Tuscany

9H-QBK Boeing B.737NG 8AS 44707 Malta Air
F-HMIX Airbus A350 1041 539 French bee

29 August OTT Tuscany

9H-QEJ Boeing B.737NG 800 44829 Malta Air
EC-NOY Airbus A320 214 2633 Volotea
HB-AYP Airbus A320 251n 10863 easyJet Switzerland

Driving on A1 by Florence going OTT
I-SWRS Airbus Helicopters H14520283 Babcock MCS Italia

29 August Pisa

Then at Pisa we dropped the Hire car off right next to the Biz jet centre and between arriving and departing, the following where captured:-

OE-FSA Diamond Aircraft DA42 T42.292 Private
YL-DAN Embraer ERJ-135BJ Legac14501183 Union Aviation
YU-SVJ Cessna Citation XLS+ 56560-6178 Prince Aviation
9H-VUG Boeing B.737MAX 8 200 65077 Malta Air
HA-LZK Airbus A321 271nx 10959 Wizz Air
ZA-AWB Boeing B.737 408 24352 Albawings

So if you look at the Airport from the front the Hire car and Biz jet centre are to your left and the cargo centre to the right.
Having a bit of time on my hands I decided to walk round the perimeter towards the Cargo area.
Here I turned left down Via Asmara (road) and found OY-SRL Boeing B.767 232BDSF of Star Air (later to be joined by LZ-CGQ Boeing B.737 3Y5F of Cargo Air)
A bit further along this road, to my surprise I found stored Fairchild Boxcar MM53-3200 of Italian Air Force.
There were at least 5 C130’s presumably of the Italian Air force parked up in the distance and one doing touch and goes (However I know the Italians are a little “touchy” ) As a result I didn’t try and read it off
If anyone knows the ID of the C130 buzzing about the airfield around 14:00 on 29th I would be grateful as it didn’t show on my flight radars.

picture from my mobile of the Box car 
E2A460A1-28A0-49EC-917C-3BD4CF7FD9E1 by Mick Childs, on Flickr


We then caught a rammed OH-LZU A321 of Finnair (subbing for a BA A320) back to Heathrow.

Log thanks to ADU

Not exactly riveting Spotting wise but a few gaps filled.

Regards Mick

[graham]

Thanks for the report Mick, I know there are a fair number of Italian AF C-130s and Agusta Bell 412s based there, some active and some in storage. Pisa is very close to where my company is based in the Lucca Valley inland from Pisa at Diecimo.