Finkenwerder 3rd April 2023.

[billsamuels]

Evening Guys.

Haven’t been able to get on many Airbus visits over the past 6 months but had this one booked for a few months. You’ll have to excuse this log, I’ve lifted it straight from my hand written logbook - so not in any order, just as I saw them…

Anyone who has not been to XFW it’s where you see mainly the narrow bodied new builds. Occasionally you see one of the bigger Airbus’s but on todays visit we only saw some partial airframes of the 330/350’s…. 

The actual ‘on-site’ tour has been somewhat restricted (due to some non-spotting groups who misbehaved) and therefore we cannot get into some of the larger hangars which remain out of bounds to all visitors… But you do get up close and personal to almost everything…

Here’s most of my log.

Reg: Con number:  Type:  Airline:
D-AVYW 11388 A321NX Wizz Air (to become 9H-WDJ)
D-AVXT 11325 A321NX Vistara
D-AVZU 11328 A321NX Spirit (to become N702NK)D-
D-AVXU 11016 A321NX Wizz Air
D-AVVC 11251 A320N Go First
D-AZAP 11314 A321NX Xiamen
D-AVWW 10455 A321NX Sichuan
D-AZYX 11318 A321NX Xiamen
D-AZYR 11334 A321NX Indigo
D-AVYH 11249 A321NX Anadolu Jet (all white)
D-AZXE 11290 A321NX Korean Air
D-AZWV 11136 A321NX China Southern
D-AZWK 11113 A321NX Air India
D-AZJK 11334 A321NX Indigo
D-AZXN 11267 A321NX Lufthansa
D-AZXQ 11264 A321NX Juneyao
D-AZAG 11179 A321NX Cathay Pacific
D-AZYD 11371 A321NX Xiamen
D-AZXJ 11259 A321NX Frontier (bear scheme)
EC-NYF 11377 A321NX Vueling
D-AVYD 11243 A321NX Gulf Air
D-AZXT 11207 A321NX Delta
D-AVZS 11353 A321NX Turkish
VH-OFW 11380 A321NX Jetstar Australia
D-AVWZ 11398 A321NX Wizz Air
D-AZXV 11200 A321NX Saudia (to become HZ-ASAA)
D-AZAF 11296 A321NX Korean Air
D-AUBA 11163 A320N Go First
VN-A527 10317 A321NX Viet Jet
D-AVWP 10607 A319N Tibet Airways
D-AVYY 11312 A321NX Anadolu Jet (all white)
D-AZAD 11241 A321NX Cathay Pacific
JA210P 11284 A320N Peach
D-AXXL 11477 A321NX Wizz Air
D-AYAZ 11397 A321NX JetBlue
D-AZYH 10880 A321NX Sichuan
D-AXXW 11115 A321NX Juneyao
D-AVWY 11341 A321NX Egyptair
D-AZWZ 11291 A321NX Wizz Air (to become 9H-WDP)
D-AVXC 11268 A321NX Wizz Air
D-AZXS 11385 A321NX Indigo
D-AZYI 11373 A321NX Pegasus
D-AZXG 11323 A321NX Vistara
D-AVXG 11275 A321NX Volaris
D-AZYO 11298 A321NX Swiss (to become HB-JPC)
D-AVYP 11305 A321NX Indigo
D-AZYG 11342 A321NX JetBlue
D-AZXY 10778 A321NX Sichuan
D-AZYN 11411 A321NX Wizz Air
D-AZXX 11352 A321NX Egyptair
D-AZXH 11260 A321NX Air India
D-AVXA 11316 A321NX Viva Aerobus
TC-RDI 11360 A321NX Pegasus
HL8511 11208 A321NX Asiana

So that’s it for what we could positively identify. There are quite a few others where we got either partial reg/con number and owner which needs further investigation….

Anyone who’s been before will know you generally get inbound or outbound into Hamburg, these are easy to identify either with bins or VR. There’s also a few other’s that were on the ground were….

OY-RUO ATR42 DAT
16+08 Hansa Jet (preserved, now in the open)
D-HYAF H-145 ADAC
B-2422 B747-4F SF Airlines (OTT)

Pretty good day out, next one’s booked for October.

Cheers.

Bill

[zz]

Thanks Bill, looks good.
Looking forward to the October trip- still looking at flights and wondering whether I can combine it with a day in Frankfurt!
Cheers

[billsamuels]

Apr 6, 2023 13:52:55 GMT zz said:

Thanks Bill, looks good.
Looking forward to the October trip- still looking at flights and wondering whether I can combine it with a day in Frankfurt!
Cheers

Hi Phil,

Why not, sounds a great idea. HAM is very quiet in comparison to FRA, I only made 12… 

We had booked a round trip to HAM with BA, then they cancelled the inbound and offered an alternative which we’d have missed, as it was too early. So we plumed for the 18:00 Eurowings back to LHR… They were both fine.  We’re thinking about a night-stop for October and maybe do a few fields in the area… Plenty of time to decide….

Hopefully see you before October.

Bill