727-200 due to Dublin

stopthepanic · 31-03-2014 12:21pm #1

HZ-SND, which may have been in storage since 2011, as I can find no later pictures, is due to Dublin for painting tomorrow, 01/04/14.

http://img2.jetphotos.net:8080/img/2/7/3/3/10734_1306509337_tb.jpg

Due at 1700 from Heraklion.

BonkeyDonker · 31-03-2014 5:35pm

I'd love to be able to get out and see it - but it is a bit to early in the day for me.

jamo2oo9 · 31-03-2014 5:57pm

BonkeyDonker wrote: »

I'd love to be able to get out and see it - but it is a bit to early in the day for me.

At 5pm in the afternoon...?

arubex · 31-03-2014 6:52pm

Last air test I've seen *logged* from 'SND was over Bahrain in December 2012!

70,000 hours total time seems rather high for someone to be buying it though; I think the 727 fatigue frame only went to 60,000.

But she was definitely up for sale ( as of July 2013 or so ). In the starboard profile shot you can see one of the white-livered 727s behind:

http://skyquestinternational.com/listing/1976-boeing-b727-223-sn-20994-registration-hz-snd/

Some gorgeous shots here, apparently from this month! *confused*

http://forums.airshows.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=58598

AlekSmart · 31-03-2014 7:01pm

stopthepanic wrote: »

HZ-SND, which may have been in storage since 2011, as I can find no later pictures, is due to Dublin for painting tomorrow, 01/04/14.

http://img2.jetphotos.net:8080/img/2/7/3/3/10734_1306509337_tb.jpg

Due at 1700 from Heraklion.

Jan...Feb...March............... ?

stopthepanic · 31-03-2014 7:32pm

arubex wrote: »

Some gorgeous shots here, apparently from this month! *confused*

http://forums.airshows.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=58598

I should have done a little more research. It does appear to have just finished flying for DHL in Bahrain. Looking very well I might add.

stopthepanic · 31-03-2014 7:42pm

AlekSmart wrote: »

Jan...Feb...March............... ?

if you are implying 'april fool's' then you are wrong.

I would have been a bit more extravagant with the aircraft type for an April fool's joke.

folbotcar · 31-03-2014 9:24pm

Back in 96. I worked for Hunting cargo Airlines. 727s were a routine sight. Hard to believe they're a novelty now. I always made a point of 'checking' their paperwork to get out of the office. Just so I could sit on the flight deck and dream.

Madpaddy79 · 01-04-2014 2:16pm

Anyone got an ETA?

billie1b · 01-04-2014 2:19pm

Madpaddy79 wrote: »

Anyone got an ETA?

I've been looking on flight radar, can't find nowt

stopthepanic · 01-04-2014 4:47pm

She will be here at 1813ish (local).

Nonoperational · 01-04-2014 4:51pm

Love the 727. Flew to Faro on one a while ago, noisy but great.

b757 · 01-04-2014 4:55pm

http://www.flightradar24.com/3049f6e

Just over VATRY now @ FL240..

BonkeyDonker · 01-04-2014 5:00pm

jamo2oo9 wrote: »

At 5pm in the afternoon...?

Some of us do not have the luxury of just sitting around all day waiting for aircraft. 17:00 is about the earliest I could have left to head out there - then getting to the airport across town that time of the day is a hassle in it self. So yes - it was a bit too early at 5pm in the afternoon of a weekday.

stopthepanic · 01-04-2014 5:15pm

stopthepanic wrote: »

She will be here at 1813ish (local).

landed 1814

b757 · 01-04-2014 5:20pm

stopthepanic wrote: »

landed 1814

Thanks for the heads up! Didn't manage to get up to DUB though.

Great April fools joke!

billie1b · 01-04-2014 5:57pm

Right, who now knows when she's leaving?

N7777G · 01-04-2014 6:36pm

some photos of it arriving on runway 10:-

https://www.flickr.com/search/?q=hzsnd&ss=0&ct=0&mt=all&w=32190379%40N02&adv=1

Buffman · 01-04-2014 7:54pm

By pure chance I saw this on approach over Maynooth at around 18:10, looked very well in the sunshine.

JamieIsGod · 01-04-2014 8:34pm

A couple of shots of her after arrival here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/100789810@N05/

b318isp · 01-04-2014 9:00pm

Saw it on short finals on my way home. I couldn't believe I was seeing a flying 727 in Dublin! I nearly crashed the car trying to eyeball it to make sure.

Probably the last flying 727 we'll see in Dublin, or at least I will see.

I remember taking a RAM 727 to Morocco years ago too.

JamieIsGod · 01-04-2014 10:44pm

smurfjed · 02-04-2014 10:18am

I'm used to seeing that aircraft everyday

Now replaced by a B757.

Johnny901 · 05-04-2014 12:16pm

As Billie1b, I would also like to know when its due to leave. Does it normally take a week to ten days to paint an aircraft like this ?

homerjay2005 · 05-04-2014 1:52pm

seen it parked up, seems to be in the exact same position as the norweigan dreamliner was a few days ago.

stopthepanic · 05-04-2014 8:16pm

She's still in hangar 3.
I looked in yesterday and it was extremely WHITE.
Hopefully that was only an undercoat.
S5-AAG was in the area of the 787 but that's a Canadair Regional Jet

Mister Jingles · 06-04-2014 11:44am

Anymore info on when this departs ?

Kenny2012 · 06-04-2014 8:17pm

HZ-SND has emerged from the paint hanager this evening and it is all white.

DieselPowered · 06-04-2014 11:48pm

JamieIsGod wrote: »

Drooool..the dirty black smoke on approach and the loud noisy engines on roll out.It sounds like a proper aircraft should.

Oh how I miss the old BAC-111 days.:P

Mister Jingles · 07-04-2014 11:49am

Is there any website to find out when this is leaving ?

EchoIndia · 07-04-2014 8:09pm

Mister Jingles wrote: »

Is there any website to find out when this is leaving ?

Not that I am aware of.

N7777G · 07-04-2014 8:31pm

New info just to hand ....

The 727 is due to depart @ 04:15L tomorrow (Tuesday) en route to Gander.

Mister Jingles · 08-04-2014 12:34am

cuterob · 08-04-2014 12:43am

those 722's are supposed to handle better than the 738's i have heard, supposed to have been a great aircraft to fly

BZ · 08-04-2014 5:02am

N7777G wrote: »

New info just to hand ....

The 727 is due to depart @ 04:15L tomorrow (Tuesday) en route to Gander.

Wont be departing until 0915 now so a chance to see her in daylight!

Kenny2012 · 08-04-2014 6:21pm

A shot of HZ-SND departing to Keflavik this morning

https://flic.kr/p/mU9e5K

phonypony · 08-04-2014 6:23pm

A lovely, noisy buggar it was too!

Bsal · 08-04-2014 11:11pm

Here she is arriving at Gander

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tP_AynsSro

Nonoperational · 13-04-2014 9:00pm

Some more shots here. Beauty.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/n707pm/with/12208247475

Bsal · 20-04-2014 9:32pm

Departing Gander

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHaThFOgtKk

newcavanman · 21-04-2014 4:35pm

Kenny2012 wrote: »

A shot of HZ-SND departing to Keflavik this morning

https://flic.kr/p/mU9e5K

Cracking photo, sorry i missed her . Remember years ago, Iberia 727s, regular as clockwork, we just took them, like so many others , for granted

roundymac · 22-04-2014 9:22am

newcavanman wrote: »

Cracking photo, sorry i missed her . Remember years ago, Iberia 727s, regular as clockwork, we just took them, like so many others , for granted

I remember the DHL 727s coming into Cork in the early nineties, like you took them for granted, only once did I go to see it take off in the evening. First Air of Canada operated the route a few times as well.

727-200 due to Dublin

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