Antonov 225 in YYC March 11th

Lowjack · Post by **Lowjack** » Fri Mar 09, 2012 1:33 pm

The Calgary Airport Authority tweeted that the 225 will be arriving on Sunday, March 11th at 1230. Scheduled to depart at 1815 that evening.

I believe this will be the first visit of the 225 to YYC.

Beefitarian · Post by **Beefitarian** » Fri Mar 09, 2012 1:44 pm

I love that thing. Have not seen it since it was at an airshow in Namao. I thought it came here to grab Safety Boss' fire fighting equipment back when Saddam lit up a bunch of his wells but it might have only been the little 124.

I'm going to have to drag the kids to the airport I think.

Lowjack · Post by **Lowjack** » Fri Mar 09, 2012 2:01 pm

Arrival time updated to 1215, as per the YYC twitter feed.

Beefitarian: I remember the Safety Boss flights, it was two 124's if memory serves.

Beefitarian · Post by **Beefitarian** » Fri Mar 09, 2012 2:06 pm

Acording to Airliners.net it was put in storage in 1994. I can't remember for sure but the Safety Boss thing might have been while that was going on.

http://www.airliners.net/aircraft-data/ ... ain?id=389

I think it was recently down for a while. I'm pretty excited it's back in action.

BTyyj · Post by **BTyyj** » Fri Mar 09, 2012 2:23 pm

Cool

I am going to have to head over there and check it out. Thanks for sharing!

Beefitarian · Post by **Beefitarian** » Fri Mar 09, 2012 7:02 pm

I wonder if this will work on Sunday?

ybwflyguy · Post by **ybwflyguy** » Fri Mar 09, 2012 8:13 pm

Just heard it's delayed until Monday now, haven't heard an ETA yet.

Beefitarian · Post by **Beefitarian** » Fri Mar 09, 2012 8:48 pm

I meant this. http://flightaware.com/live/aircrafttype/A225

Lowjack · Post by **Lowjack** » Sat Mar 10, 2012 7:17 am

Rescheduled from Monday with an ETA of 2030.

Sucks for us photographers...

wee_in_yyc · Post by **wee_in_yyc** » Sat Mar 10, 2012 3:28 pm

It arrived earlier today in EGPK as ADB148F.

Darkwing Duck · Post by **Darkwing Duck** » Sat Mar 10, 2012 8:27 pm

It was a C5 Galaxy from USAF that took the Safety Boss stuff to Kuwait after Saddam blew all the wells. Wish I could get a look at that 225. Oh man that would be a Mriya come true.

wee_in_yyc · Post by **wee_in_yyc** » Sat Mar 10, 2012 8:54 pm

Heading to CYYR now from EGPK as ADB1248.

Beefitarian · Post by **Beefitarian** » Sat Mar 10, 2012 9:07 pm

wee_in_yyc wrote:Heading to CYYR now from EGPK as ADB1248.

http://flightaware.com/live/flight/ADB1248

Beefitarian · Post by **Beefitarian** » Sun Mar 11, 2012 6:17 am

It's going to KMSP Saint Paul International right now. They must be almost ready for a nap soon.

Anyone know what they are going to be doing in YYC?

BTyyj · Post by **BTyyj** » Sun Mar 11, 2012 12:04 pm

Just heard the flight may have diverted to CYMX due to gear problems.

Beefitarian · Post by **Beefitarian** » Sun Mar 11, 2012 12:17 pm

Flightaware has it's arrival status unknown.

benoit.baril · Post by **benoit.baril** » Sun Mar 11, 2012 12:28 pm

Parked in Mirabel

Untitled by Patcard, on Flickr

Beefitarian · Post by **Beefitarian** » Sun Mar 11, 2012 12:47 pm

Flight aware is updated now to diverted landing there at CYMX.

oldtimer · Post by **oldtimer** » Sun Mar 11, 2012 1:00 pm

I watched that monster do a flight demo at the Abbotsford airshow. Almost pranged when the pilot got too aggresive in a turn right over the US/Canadian border.
An interesting point, if the airplane crashed right in that small no-mans land between the border, which country would be responsible for doing the autopsy on the survivors?

lownslow · Post by **lownslow** » Sun Mar 11, 2012 1:01 pm

So where do you all figure it will go next? Wikipedia says it has the range to go direct YYC but I suppose they might stop somewhere along the way to stretch their legs. YWG maybe?

LnS.

FlyGy · Post by **FlyGy** » Sun Mar 11, 2012 2:01 pm

Ahhhh, photoshop. lol.

If they wanna stretch their legs they can just take a stroll to the tail and back, that'll be about a km.

BTyyj · Post by **BTyyj** » Sun Mar 11, 2012 2:38 pm

oldtimer wrote:An interesting point, if the airplane crashed right in that small no-mans land between the border, which country would be responsible for doing the autopsy on the survivors?

Hopefully they would bring the "survivors" (

)up to Canada so they wouldn't have a ridiculous bill if they needed to be hospitalized.

I bet the flight will continue down to KMSP. They probably needed to do something down there besides stretching their legs, as it wouldn't have made sense otherwise as a stop-over between YYR and YYC.

The Hammer · Post by **The Hammer** » Sun Mar 11, 2012 2:53 pm

I am guessing they went to MSP vs YWG due to fuel prices. It would make a big difference on that bird.

PS If it really had as many engines as the photoshop picture it would have been British (using glorified APU's and still underpowered)

wee_in_yyc · Post by **wee_in_yyc** » Sun Mar 11, 2012 9:04 pm

ADB1248 is sked to depart YMX now @ 0440am to continue onto MSP.

Mostro · Post by **Mostro** » Sun Mar 11, 2012 9:12 pm

Beefitarian wrote:It's going to KMSP Saint Paul International right now. They must be almost ready for a nap soon.

Anyone know what they are going to be doing in YYC?

It's picking up some natural gas plant equipment from my company, Enerflex. I'm one of the engineers on the project and couldn't even get a tarmac pass. Our execs took all the passes

.

It's final destination is Nigeria.

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