Plain White 747-300 at Sydney

[David W]

Hi,

I was at Sydney airport on the 06/12/2009 to catch a flight to Christchurch and I noticed while driving towards the international terminal that there was a plain white 747-300 just about to take off it was around 6.00am-6.30am. Does anyone no where this plane was going or any information on it.

Thanks,

[Mark W]

The system here at work shows a movement of a MAS6207D at 0620 on the day, which is a B742 registered TF-AAA.

That is probably your bird. It was going to MEL having come from KUL.

I can't attest to its color - they all look the same where I work! :D

[Rick G.]

Greetings David W.,

Last week, I observed a plain white 747 taking off from Dubai International Airport, in the UAE. I was not close enough to see any registration numbers.

There is probably more than one plain white 747 plying the skies of the world however.

Rick G.

[NickN]

Dubai Air Wing have plain white 747's from memory. They use them to collect racehorses from Oz on occasion.

[phil.l]

That aircraft would be A6-GDP.

[Nigel C]

And that would make it a -200, not a -300.

[Matt_L]

Nigel's right,

it was a 200 and it was at cargo yesterday at around 1130am

[NickN]

To the untrained eye, or even if you just catch a glimpse of a plain white 747-200 it wouldn't be hard to confuse it with a -300. Either way the guy was just looking for some info and asking a question lets help him out without going into semantics once more.

[David W]

Thanks, for the reply's guys. It must have been a 200 then I didn’t get a long look at it as I was driving and it had already taken off by the time I got into the international Terminal. It looked quite dirty though.

On another note while I was waiting for the aircraft I was on (Jetstar A320 VH-VQA) to leave the gate I noticed that there was an Emirates A330 that had to wait on the taxiway for well over 25 minutes maybe even longer as it was still waiting as I was departing out. When we passed it I noticed they had shut down one of the engines.
I know Sunday mornings are extremely busy at Sydney airport but I would be surprised if this was a regular occurrence, having to wait that long for a gate. I’m sure the passengers must have been frustrated.

[matthew mcdonald]

Are you positive that it was an EK A330 as they only fly A388's, 77W's and 772LR's to Sydney.

[David W]

Off the top of my head i thought it had winglets on it but i may have been seeing things and it probably was a 777.

[andrew evans]

This is the bird.TF-AAA
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2723/4186339205_704343d0f4_b.jpg

[Greg McDonald]

that is one UGLY plane....

[Mark W]

Its sister is coming in this morning TF-AAB, as Malaysian 6203, due 1120 from KUL.

Once again, I can't attest to its colour, someone will have to go outside and look, but its data says its a B742 :D

[David W]

Yep that looks like the one i saw as i said it was pretty dirty. Thanks for posting the picture great shot.

[Dave Powell]

Must have had the titlkes painted out quite recently - here she is at YSSY on 14 November

cheers

Dave