After what seems to have been a long time since my last visit down south to London Heathrow I was tempted for an early morning run down to catch a very unusual visitor,
I set off in the very early hours arriving near the 27 Left Approach shortly before 6am, I only had to wait a few minutes for my main target!
Arriving just after 6am was Nigeria's Air Peace B777-300 5N-BWI operating a charter,
Luckily the sun was shining for me!
Another hour or so in that location saw a few more interesting subjects pass by,
Air Canada's C-GFAF was my first sighting of one of their A330's in the latest scheme.
United Airlines B787-10 N13013 wears their new scheme,
and my first British Airways A350-1000 as G-XWBF arrived as the cloud started to roll in!
I made my over to another spot as the sunlight was starting move around,
My first chance to catch a photo of an Aer Lingus A321LR with EI-LRA
My first acceptable shot of a Virgin Atlantic A350-1000 as G-VPRD arrived,
Sadly the sun went in to hiding as my first Air China A350-900 arrived!
Cargojet B767-300 Freighter C-GYAJ caught some sun!
Alitalia A321 EI-IXH wears the newer scheme,
My first Turkish B787-9 Dreamliner as TC-LLD arrived in a sunny patch against dark skies!
British Airways took delivery of their first B787-10 as G-ZBLA arrived just before noon, sadly the sun avoided this one!
A6-EQO, my last required Emirates B777-300 arrived at lunchtime, great to have finally fleeted those!
With very little else of interest due I decided to make my way back home via a couple of storage areas for some required frames, short stops at both Lasham and Kemble were rewarding with a couple of 727 frames along with a 737-200 and 717 hitting the book!
A very enjoyable day out with some nice new additions to the photo library along with 42 new numbers in the log book!
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