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Boeing BBJ Just landed at Baldonnel

  • 03-06-2011 4:38pm
    #1
    Moo1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25 ✭


    Just saw a white 737 BBJ Touch down in Baldonnel 5 mimutes ago. Any ideas of it's origin or destination.
    All I saw where green stripes on the side.


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  • #2
    SNAKEDOC
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 943 ✭✭✭SNAKEDOC


    charter for the rest of the troops heading for the leb, (Best of luck fellas do us proud)


  • #3
    N7777G
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 701 ✭✭✭N7777G


    It was US Air Force C-40C 02-0201 - callsign "Boxer 40".

    http://flic.kr/p/9Q5R3J


  • #4
    Moo1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25 ✭Moo1


    I must admit my first instinct was US military. Why would it be in Baldonnel and for how long?


  • #5
    Blue Punto
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 834 ✭✭✭Blue Punto


    N7777G
    Your intel sources seem to be on the money everytime

    Nothing seems to go into Dublin or Baldonnel without you being there to get a pic


  • #6
    SNAKEDOC
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 943 ✭✭✭SNAKEDOC


    us government planes use bal as the airport of choice for diplomat flights and military brass coming and going. i spotted this while up there a while back.

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/antospics/4936757113/in/photostream

    this fella is used for domestic flights as well as over seas flights. it transports the first lady when travelling without her husband. and also ambassadors and the like.


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  • #7
    N7777G
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 701 ✭✭✭N7777G


    Moo1 wrote: »
    I must admit my first instinct was US military. Why would it be in Baldonnel and for how long?

    It departed Baldonnel @ 1205 and is going to Shannon.


  • #8
    FreudianSlippers
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,397 ✭✭✭✭FreudianSlippers


    SNAKEDOC wrote: »
    us government planes use bal as the airport of choice for diplomat flights and military brass coming and going. i spotted this while up there a while back.

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/antospics/4936757113/in/photostream

    this fella is used for domestic flights as well as over seas flights. it transports the first lady when travelling without her husband. and also ambassadors and the like.
    That looks pretty similar to the old Presidential Livery they used on the 707s... or were all government planes using that livery then?


  • #9
    Blue Punto
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 834 ✭✭✭Blue Punto


    FreudianSlippers wrote: »
    That looks pretty similar to the old Presidential Livery they used on the 707s... or were all government planes using that livery then?


    that was the standaed VIP livery

    And its still very close today


  • #10
    vicwatson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,404 ✭✭✭✭vicwatson


    It was US Air Force C-40C 02-0201 - callsign "Boxer 40".

    http://flic.kr/p/9Q5R3J

    Why are there foreign military aircraft landing at Baldonnel though?


  • #11
    testicle
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,429 ✭✭✭testicle


    vicwatson wrote: »
    Why are there foreign military aircraft landing at Baldonnel though?

    Because they want to?


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  • #12
    vicwatson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,404 ✭✭✭✭vicwatson


    Ok Testicle !

    Good answer, but not really the reason.


  • #13
    SNAKEDOC
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 943 ✭✭✭SNAKEDOC


    they land there so they are safer and not many people know they are there. they could be there every few weeks and nobody would be any the wiser except the avid spotter, WESTDUB i'm talking about you, if they land in dublin everyone knows the yanks are here and the crustys would be out where as the army can be closer to the plane in bal. Also if they are military why not land in a military base instead of a civilian airport.


  • #14
    westdub
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 690 ✭✭✭westdub


    vicwatson wrote: »
    Why are there foreign military aircraft landing at Baldonnel though?

    There are lots of reasons foreign aircraft visit Bal, some are on training flights and use Bal for a stopover or refuelling and some are for reasons you will never find out....
    Any details on the day to day operations in Bal are covered by OPSEC and wont be discussed on a open forum.
    Not by anyone that really knows .....;)


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