Apart from B727-200 TC-AJV, who became w/o after a runway incident, Torosair had another B727. This B727 saw the light in 1968 while starting her operational live as N7278F at Frontier Airlines. Braniff, Pride Air, Arrow Air, World Airways, Air Atlanta Icelandic, and Cayman Airways operated this B72...

Hello Guido, very interesting text and picture. But there must have been at least a second Drenair Corvette because I have a picture of EC-DUE taken in 1988 at MST (btw one of only two Corvette photos in my collection!) Greetings, Hannu Hi Hannu. The source I took the info from said Drenair had 2 j...

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No doubts about Air Bridge Cargo. Not MST but Liège will become the ABC flights from Amsterdam.

Once the singing legend Prince had a song called "Little Red Corvette". Now, little she is, the Aérospatiale SN 601 Corvette. But I'm sure Prince had something else in mind instead of an airplane. Yes, the Spanish airline Drenair had a fleet of small aircraft, doing business charters, but ...

Sultan Air was a Turkish charterairline operating a bunch of Boeing 737's, established in 1991 after the bankruptcy of Torosair. No doubt about it, Sultan Air operated in the first place between Turkey and MST only with a leased B737 ( SE-DKG, lateron SE-DKH too ) from Transwede, wich was actually a...

Hahn and Liege have the infrastructure and personnel! Are the customers of ABC willing to pay the add. roadcosts in Germany ( Maut fuer LKW ) for their cargo ? How about permission to drive at week ends with trucks ? ( week end rijverboden vrachtauto's ) Toll taxes for Germany in between the Nether...

Late winter 1991 we became the information that LTU purchased a former Eastern Airlines Boeing 757. Rumours said the 757 should be repainted at GPA-Expressair at MST. Now that was nice because a few months earlier Eastern Airlines went bankrupt. So we waited patiently untill the rumour came true by ...

The first IL-76's at MST belonged to the Swiss/Russian airliner Metro Cargo in the spring of 1991( See further down in the MST-Aviation column ). In the summer of that year Aeroflot started with the, so called, Sea-Air flights from Maastricht to Vladiwostok. As the IL-76's mostly appeared during wee...

When the announcement came that the 1991 Eurotop was held in Maastricht, we all got curious of what about to come to MST. In those years it was usual that the country of presidency organized the Eurotop of EEC leaders by the end of the country's presidency, wich was after a half a year. And the 1991...

A sunny Saturday in February at MST... A Saturdaymorning full of fog in AMS... When minding my own business at home I received a good old phonecall from a friend, telling me that I had to hurry up, as there were a couple diversions at MST diverted from AMS. Being curious what kind of diversions were...

Yes, as I have most of them. Cannot post them all together because my column would looked like a dry well soon.
So stay tuned and you will see them passing by every now and then.

Were you there? Were you at MST when the good old T2 Aviation B727-200F paid a visit to MST? If so you must had love to see such a good old hardware as a Boeing 727 on the tarmac's of Maastricht in 2017. I was there and I loved it! Feeling the old vibrations of aviation from long, long ago, when Boe...

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The last few weeks we've got really spoiled by our last new MST 747 operators, Sky Gates and Silkway. Once again a 747 seemed to be a common plane on our cargo apron(s), after the lost of Cargolux. But who was the first scheduled 747 operator ever on MST? As we all know Flying Tigers operates the ve...

Man o man, what some lovely passed weeks we had at MST/EHBK, hadn't we? A B737-200, B727-200, a nice Airbus A340, smoking Antonovs and so on and so on... And what more is have come in the future? Let's hop back in time when a B737-200 was a common thing. In this episode What if...the Virgin Viscount...

Well done Leo and Jan!

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Great job on that good old classic, you all!

As from the early Eighties XP Express Parcel Systems had MST as homebase for their parcel flights towards Europe. Several airlines operated with small aircraft for XP during nighttime. XP itselves leased several F-27's for their parcel flights. One of them was this PH-FKT who was based at MST. The F...

Torosair was in 1988 a new Turkish airline, operating flights from Turkey to several destinations in Europe. Maastricht was one of them. Their first plane was this Boeing B727-200 TC-AJV. Torosair flew twice a week to Beek with this bare metall Boeing. However, things went not so well for this 727 a...