Location: DUS / Dusseldorf, Germany

Date: 8 March, 2005

First visit to this spotter-friendly airport in Germany. Excellent views from the terminals at either end of the airport despite some pretty gloomy weather.


  • Alitalia Express use a number of Embraer types. This is I-EXMF, an ERJ-145.

  • TC-AAB is a B737-800 of Turkish airline Pegasus.

  • Largest visitor of the day was A6-ERO an Emirates A340-300.

  • Atlas Air's B747 freighter N808MC was damaged in a landing accident some weeks before.

  • Lufthansa Regional ATR42, D-BPPP.

  • A320 EC-HDY of Iberia.

  • Another Airbus; this is VP-BWA an A319 of Aeroflot.

  • D-ABAK B737-400 operated by Air Berlin.

  • A320 D-ALTC of German airline LTU.

  • A6-ERO departs Dusseldorf.

  • D-ABBP has the distinction of being the first ever B737 without the upper cockpit windows.

  • BA CitiExpress ERJ-145 G-EMBY.

  • Austrian Arrows CRJ-200 OE-LCR.

  • B737-700 D-AHIC from Hamburg International.

  • Luftwaffe Challenger 1204 visited during the afternoon gloom.

  • Alitalia Express was one of the first European customers for the ERJ-170. EI-DFL is pictured.

  • D-ACRF, a CRJ-200 of Lufthansa Regional.

  • BAE146 D-AEWB and A319 F-GRHU wait to depart.

  • Yet another Lufthansa Regional CRJ-200. This is D-ACRG.

  • A319 F-GRHU prepares to leave as A320 D-AIQD taxies to the hold.

  • Lufthansa Regional CRJ-700 D-ACPT.

  • Police MBB/Kawasaki BK117 D-HNWP.

  • European Air Express ATR42 D-BCRS.

  • Special-schemed D-ACRF.