UK Trip Part 6 - Luton Airport

My last plane spotting stop was Luton Airport.   Luton used to be a hub for holiday traffic, being the base for Monarch, Britannia and Court Line, all of whom serviced the boom in package holidays to Spain in the 1970s and 80s.  Now it is a hub for low cost carriers and also for privately owned business jets.

Here is a view of one of the aprons with a few million dollars worth of aircraft parked up!

There were plenty of budget flights coming and going including Ryanair and easyJet, along with Privilege Style operating for Wizzair, SunExpress, FlyOne and Eastern Airways, operating for easyJet

While I was there a few charter flights operated, including a freighter from Turkey operated by MNG Airlines with an Airbus A300, a British Airways ERJ 190 to and from Liege and an Air Charters Europe ERJ 145 which also arrived from Liege.

There were many varied business jets in and out all of the time.   They included Falcon 7X VP-CIG, Cessna 560 G-LEAX,  Cessna 680 CS-LTX, Embraer Phenom 300 CS-PJB and Pilatus PC-12 G-LUSO

Embraer Legacy 650 D-AJET, Gulfstream 550 N550AA, Bombardier Global 7500s N186QS and G-HNEY and Learjet 60 SP-DOM

Other interesting aircraft were a San Marino registered Leonardo AW 139 helicopter (T7-LSS), a nicely painted Pilatus PC-24 D-CAPT, a German Learjet 60 Air ambulance D-CPMU and another San Marino registered plane, this time a privately owned Boeing 737. 

The executive jets kept coming, Challenger 300 N550XJ, Bombardier Global 6000 N543GL (owned by Skechers the shoe company), another Falcon 7X D-ATON, global 6000 C-GDIL and Falcon 8X N179C

Embraer Phenom 100 D-IAAW, Challenger 350 9H-VCC, a Moroccan Cessna 525 CN-TLB, Phenom 300 2-ZENP and Global 7500 9H-IBI.

The last few photos are of Global express OE-LCA, Falcon 2000 LX-MIC, Legacy 650 G-SUGR, Challenger 650 M-ABSX and Gulfstream 450 N463FX.