SkyStef's aviation page
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SkyStef's aviation page |
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11/1997 Location: BRU/EBBR Photo: collection Skystef Description: this A330 of Sabena arrived at Brussels on July 30 1997 as "F-GMDB", entered the Belgian register the same day and became operational on August 2. |
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27/08/1999 Location: BRU/EBBR Photo: Skystef Description: here captured in its second (of two) color scheme(s) adopted in march 1999, it was active for the carrier till one day before its demise on November 7 2001. |
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13/10/2005 Location: BRU/EBBR Photo: Skystef Description: after a 5 month period of storage at Bordeaux, it arrived again at Brussels on April 23 2002, this time in SN Brussels Airlines markings with tiny "Birdy Airlines" titles, latter was the new operator but conducting flight for SN Brussels Airlines. Its first commercial flight took off three days later. On October 27 2004, SN Brussels Airlines absorbed Birdy Airlines and the only change was the erase of the tiny "Birdy Airlines" titles and it's such depicted |
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30/07/2006 Location: BRU/EBBR Photo: Skystef Description: on June 3 2006, it arrived from Zurich (after overhaul) in the new jacket. |
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26/04/2007 Location: BRU/EBBR Photo: Skystef Description: since March 25 2007 known as Brussels Airlines, first months the only differences of its jacket were "SN" painted out and the internet address changed. |
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10/02/2008 Location: BRU/EBBR Photo: Skystef Description: on October 17 2007, after maintenance at Zurich, it arrived with a modified tail c/s. |
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03/06/2013 Location: BRU/EBBR Photo: Skystef Description: the airframe changed to the full color scheme and became such operational from February 5 2011 onwards. |
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21/08/2013 Location: BRU/EBBR Photo: Skystef Description: decorated with Tomorrowland stickers (see also with OO-SFU and OO-SSA), a three day music festival in Belgium between July 26-28 (of edition 2013) of which Brussels Airlines was the official carrier. These stickers were adopted mid July 2013 and it would carry some music fans in a couple of flights from Basle. |
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21/08/2013 Location: BRU/EBBR Photo: Skystef Description: detail. |
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21/08/2013 Location: BRU/EBBR Photo: Skystef Description: detail. |
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01/09/2013 Location: BRU/EBBR Photo: Skystef Description: by the end of August 2013, the butterflies/logo were/was removed. A week later, on September 9, the rest was removed as well. |
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17/07/2014 Location: MUC/EDDM Photo: collection Skystef Description: in 2014 it was repeated with slightly different stickers, which were added for a couple of weeks on the left side only. See also with OO-SFM |
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31/07/2015 Location: BRU/EBBR Photo: Skystef Description: repeated in 2015 for a couple of weeks end of July with again some different stickers on the left side only. |
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01/08/2016 Location: BRU/EBBR Photo: Skystef Description: repeated in 2016 for a couple of weeks in July with again some different stickers on the left side only. |
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01/08/2016 Location: BRU/EBBR Photo: Skystef Description: detail front side. |
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01/08/2016 Location: BRU/EBBR Photo: Skystef Description: detail aft side. Final flight was on October 29 2018 (from New York - JFK) and after a short period of storage, it left for Marana on November 13 arriving there one day later where it was broken up later. |