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    Welcome to our Trip Report Blog.
    Here we will post logs and pictures taken on aircraft spotting trips.
    Any info can be used for personal use, if passing on or publishing please credit SWAG.
    If you can correct or add any information please contact me here.

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    Header Picture: UP-MI602 Mil Mi-26T (34001212133) Kazakhstan Emercom at Boraldai, Kazakhstan on 08/07/19 (credit StuC)

    Updates 2022:
    26th May - Log and pics added for Private Flyer Show 14/05/22
    24th December - BAPC Register updated and 56 pictures added

    Wednesday 26 March 2014

    23-26/03/14 - Sierra Leone - Liberia

    Another exotic log from our roving African correspondent.

    23/03/14 - Freetown-Lungi, Sierra Leone

    9G-AEH Aerospatiale AS.365N Dauphin 2 (6065) IAS Helicopters
    (9L-LBN) Let L-410UVP Turbolet (851337) dumped, ex West Coast Airways. Mid-air collision with Mi-8T RA-22248 (6578) UNAMSIL 24/08/00 damaging tail and rudder. During subsequent forced landing at the airport the undercarriage partially collapsed. Abandoned and further damaged during the war.
    CS-HHI Aerospatiale AS.365N3 Dauphin 2 (6089) Heliportugal, red scheme
    ET-AQC De Havilland Canada DHC-8-402NG (4421) Asky
    OO-SFM Airbus A330-301 (030) Brussels Airlines
    Z-BAM McDonnell Douglas MD-11ER/F (48746) AV Cargo Airlines

    03-04/14 - Monrovia-Spriggs Payne, Liberia

    Based

    A8-ZXB Piper PA-34 Seneca (unknown) stored/wfu in hangar
    A8-ZXB
    EL-GID Piper PA-23-250 Aztec F (27-7654106) stored/wfu in hangar
    N146SP Bell 206L-3 LongRanger (51490) Samaritans Purse
    N146SP
    N188GV Cessna 208B (208B2038) Liberian CAA ?
    N188GV
    N4196V Cessna U.206G (U206-04091) stored/wfu in hangar "Lonestar Airways"
    N4196V
    N883SP Cessna 208B (208B0887) Samaritans Purse
    N883SP
    RA-22426/UNO-161 Mil Mi-8AMT (8AMT00643083901U) UTair Helicopter Services/United Nations ..badly damaged in heavy landing 22/04/14 after suspected engine failure soon after take-off from Spriggs
    RA-22426
    CS-HGG
    RA-22428/UNO-162 Mil Mi-8AMT (8AMT00643083903U) UTair Helicopter Services/United Nations
    RA-22428
    RA-22483 Mil Mi-8AMT (8AMT00643084007U) UTair Helicopter Services/United Nations ..arrived late April as a replacement for RA-22426
    ZS-HHI Aerospatiale 350B3 Ecureuil (4442) Sable Mining Company
    ZS-HHI

    Contract helos

    CS-HGG Eurocopter AS.350B2 Ecureuil (9085) Heliportugal
    CS-HGG
    CS-HGJ Aerospatiale AS.365N Dauphin 2 (6205) Heliportugal
    CS-HGJ
    CS-HHI Aerospatiale AS.365N Dauphin 2 (6089) Heliportugal ..arrived early April from Freetown
    CS-HHI
    OO-NHN Aerospatiale AS.365N3 Dauphin 2 (6783) NHV
    OO-NHO Aerospatiale AS.365N3 Dauphin 2 (6809) NHV
    OO-NHO

    Visitors

    C-GGXS/UN-159 De Havilland Canada DHC-7-102 (64) Trans Capital Air Ltd/United Nations ..visits daily
    C-GGXS
    ET-AQC De Havilland Canada DHC-8-402NG (4421) Asky ..regular schedule
    HS-JAS Boeing 767-336ER (25203) Jet Asia Airways, visited 01/05/14 on UN flight
    HS-JAS
    N106HS Bell 206B (1417) ..visited 17/04/14
    N282DB Beech E90 King Air (LW-209) ..visited 10/04/14
    N282DB
    ZS-MMJ/UN-157 Beech 1900D (UE-92) Balmoral Central Contracts SA/United Nations ..visits daily
    C-GGXS & ZS-MMJ

    24-25/03/14 - Monrovia-Roberts International, Liberia

    N747JX Grumman G-1159 Gulfstream 2SP (33) Atlantic Jet Holdings Inc
    N747JX
    N748JX Grumman G-1159A Gulfstream 3 (377) Atlantic Jet Holdings Inc
    RA-06277 Mil Mi-26T (34001212410) SKOL/United Nations
    RA-87260 Yakovlev Yak-40 (9311126A) dumped, ex Wesua Air Transport
    RA-87260
    083133AT/UN-171 Mil Mi-8MTV-2 (unknown) 56th Detached Helicopter Unit, Ukraine AF/UNMIL
    081772AT/UN-172 Mil Mi-8MTV-2 (unknown) 56th Detached Helicopter Unit, Ukraine AF/UNMIL
    081770AT/UN-173 Mil Mi-8MTV-2 (unknown) 56th Detached Helicopter Unit, Ukraine AF/UNMIL
    UN-173
    081960AT/UN-175 Mil Mi-8MTV-2 (unknown) 56th Detached Helicopter Unit, Ukraine AF/UNMIL
    UN-175
    Pictured at Spriggs-Payne on 04/04/14
    082071AT/UN-176 Mil Mi-8MTV-2 (unknown) 56th Detached Helicopter Unit, Ukraine AF/UNMIL
    ?/UN-177 Mil Mi-8MTV-2 (unknown) 56th Detached Helicopter Unit, Ukraine AF/UNMIL
    VQ-BID Boeing 737-45S (28477) UTair/United Nations
    ZS-MMJ/UN-157 Beech 1900D (UE-92) Balmoral Central Contracts SA/United Nations