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New Air India Aircraft To LHR On Tuesday

B747-437B From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR:
Posted (5 years 1 month 1 day 11 hours ago) and read 2838 times:

Air India's new adopted baby of the fleet will visit LHR again on Tuesday.

The B747-4B5 has been christened "Sanchi" and is registered VT-AIC. She will be operating AI 112 JFK-LHR-DEL-BOM and will be in Heathrow from about 0700hrs to 0845hrs in case any spotters want to check her out or photograph her.

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Jaysit From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR:
Reply 1, posted (5 years 1 month 1 day 9 hours ago) and read 2566 times:

Sanchi?

lets hope no Buddhists will get into a snitch that a second hand aircraft was named after a stupa !

Whats the next 744 going to be named?

WindowSeat From United States, joined Sep 2003, 1257 posts, RR: 56
Reply 2, posted (5 years 1 month 1 day 8 hours ago) and read 2521 times:

B747-437B,

any chance of her visiting EWR?

cheers

I'm all in favour of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with keyboards.

B747-437B From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR:
Reply 3, posted (5 years 1 month 1 day 5 hours ago) and read 2440 times:

I snapped this picture of her at LHR yesterday as she was en route to New York.

The family resemblance with her other siblings is quite remarkable! Big grin

Vimanav From India, joined Jul 2003, 1380 posts, RR: 14
Reply 4, posted (5 years 1 month 1 day 2 hours ago) and read 2365 times:

A hearty welcome to Sanchi to the Centaur fleet. So AI maintains its tradition of naming 744s after temples and historic cities. Only the registration sequence is rather new. I believe the 3rd B744 from KE joins the fleet end December 03. Maybe they'd name her Vijaynagara or Hampi or Mamallapuram.

rgds//Vimanav

SM777 From India, joined Nov 2003, 132 posts, RR: 0
Reply 5, posted (5 years 1 month 1 day 1 hour ago) and read 2354 times:

B747-437B,

How come it's AIC ?? Is this the start of a new series ?? I guess this is ex KE (the -B5 tag) ??......is it on long lease or what ?

Makes sense anyway ......AI for Air India.....followed by A B C D etc.

Cheers
SM777

Mog From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR:
Reply 6, posted (5 years 1 month 1 day 1 hour ago) and read 2335 times:

The DGCA website has had a list of available call-signs for Indian aircraft up and running for some time now. So, who has VT-AAA, and its not the obvious, who already have VT-ATA and VT-TAT . . .

TG992 From New Zealand, joined Jan 2001, 2585 posts, RR: 10
Reply 7, posted (5 years 1 month 1 day 1 hour ago) and read 2326 times:

Hehe.. that red nose is just sooo darn cute Big grin

B747-437B From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR:
Reply 8, posted (5 years 1 month 23 hours ago) and read 2203 times:

So, who has VT-AAA, and its not the obvious, who already have VT-ATA and VT-TAT . . .

I know that VT-TAT and VT-TTA are the Tata corporate jets, but haven't heard of VT-ATA though.

The most appropriate registration IMHO is TISCO's King Air which is registered VT-JRD.

Mog From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR:
Reply 9, posted (5 years 4 weeks 5 hours ago) and read 1987 times:

VT-AAA flies Reliance colours, and I forgot what aircraft it was, I think it was a Gulfstream.

N754pr From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR:
Reply 10, posted (5 years 3 weeks 1 day 10 hours ago) and read 1766 times:

A good source is 99% sure he saw VT-AID on a remote stand in seoul last night, so thats a third ex Korean -400 for AI.

B747-437B From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR:
Reply 11, posted (5 years 3 weeks 1 day 3 hours ago) and read 1600 times:

How come it's AIC ?? Is this the start of a new series ??

Looks like it. I believe the 2 ex-SQ A310s coming this month will bear VT-AIA and VT-AIB. As N754pr says above, the third KE 744 will bear VT-AID.

Donder10 From Canada, joined Oct 2001, 6649 posts, RR: 17
Reply 12, posted (5 years 3 weeks 1 day 2 hours ago) and read 1518 times:

B747-437B,
any idea when -AIC will be back into LHR?

B747-437B From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR:
Reply 13, posted (5 years 3 weeks 1 day 2 hours ago) and read 1507 times:

any idea when -AIC will be back into LHR?

No clue. With current question marks over DEL w/x operations and 3 daily westbound 744 launches (JFK/ORD/EWR), the rotations are changing so often that it is impossible to keep track. The only sure way is to keep an eye on LHR traffic to see if she headed westbound to ORD/JFK - you then know she will be back the next day heading eastbound.

B747-437B From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR:
Reply 14, posted (5 years 2 weeks 5 days 2 hours ago) and read 1322 times:

Someone finally got a picture of her for the database.

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B747-437B From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR:
Reply 15, posted (5 years 2 weeks 4 days 2 hours ago) and read 1193 times:

I believe the 3rd B744 from KE joins the fleet end December 03. Maybe they'd name her Vijaynagara or Hampi or Mamallapuram.

To further update this discussion, VT-AID named "Kaziranga" is supposed to be arriving in Mumbai tonight. She will make her revenue service introduction later this week giving an active fleet of nine 744s.

[Edited 2003-12-22 11:39:11]

Sabena 690 From Belgium, joined Feb 2002, 6332 posts, RR: 51
Reply 16, posted (5 years 2 weeks 4 days 1 hour ago) and read 1109 times:

I spotted VT-AIC at December 7 above Belgium, was glad to see a new AI registration!

AI passes over here several times a day, always a pleasure to look at...

Frederic

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