General Aviation Photos and News at Grantley Adams International

This P3-Orion turned up at the Grantley Adams International Airport this afternoon. I believe it belongs to the Customs and Border Protection of the United States.

A C-130 from the U.S Coast Guard came as well...

On the night of the 22nd of August, this Avianca Airbus A330-200 -in Star Alliance livery- diverted to Barbados because of a medical emergency. It was flying from Barcelona (Spain) to Bogata (Columbia).

The weather isn't ideal here today. Rain, low visibility, light light winds and blowing slightly from the other direction. So we have a couple aircraft doing 27 landings. Our Runway is 09/27. Planes land and take off from the 09 side usually when conditions are normal. Today, it's from the 27 end for now.

Again, the wind is blowing out of the WSW even varying to the West...so 27 landings and take offs have been going on...from the morning... today. I may drive up to the airport to take some shots to update here with.

A shot of British Airways 777-200ER BAW2155 from Gatwick taxiing after landing

New livery American today. I photographed her going back out to JFK. She's a Boeing 737-800WL.

A photo by me of Air Canada service AC966 from Toronto Pearson (CYYZ) about to touch down at Adams....

Reducing the photos to 800 seems to be taking away from the quality...

British Airways service BAW2155 from Gatwick on short final.

More of my photos to come later today.

Thomson is expected to fly a Boeing 787 Dreamliner during the winter here.

London Gatwick – Barbados 15DEC13 – 13APR14 1 weekly
London Gatwick – Cancun 03NOV13 – 23APR14 Up to 2 weekly
London Gatwick – Holguin 11DEC13 – 17APR14 1 weekly
London Gatwick – Male 03NOV13 – 20APR14 1 weekly
London Gatwick – Mombasa 04NOV13 – 21APR14 1 weekly
London Gatwick – Montego Bay 07NOV13 – 21APR14 1 weekly
London Gatwick – Phuket 05NOV13 – 22APR14 1 weekly (Previously reported)
London Gatwick – Puerto Plata 13NOV13 – 19APR14 1 weekly
London Gatwick – Punta Cana 01NOV13 – 22APR14 1 weekly (2 weekly from 10DEC13)
Manchester – Cancun 02NOV13 – 16APR14 3 weekly
Manchester – Punta Cana 02APR14 – 23APR14 1 weekly
Newcastle – Cancun 01APR14 – 22APR14 1 weekly

We had an IL76 Cargo yesterday, not often those pass through here but when they do it is usually on fuel or rest stops. Didn't get any photos. Apparently it departed this morning.

Two Thomson Boeing 787-8s are on their way to Grantley Adams. It's the inaugural trip for the 787 to our island under a carrier. Of course the 787 testbed was here testing in 2011 as well as the 747-8I/F.

Last week Friday we had the inaugural of the Thomson 787 flights started by G-TUIA and G-TUID. This week, the other two are flying here. G-TUIB which landed about 12 min ago and G-TUIC is about 20 min out. Thomson are expected to get four more 787-800s.

This 737-300 flew into the airport late tonight. Seems to be from an African airline, probably doing a fuel stop here.

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