G650 with a great paint job

G650 N650RR (6019) seen recently at Savannah. Photographer anonymous for obvious reasons.

G650s in service

With only 6 Gulfstream 650s in service, it was a surprise to see 3 of them in Zurich last week. N100A (6010), N524EA (6012) and N762MS (6008) all arrived for the World Economic Forum.

First G650 delivered

More than 3 years after the first flight of the G650, the first one has been delivered. As expected, N711SW (6007) was the first one leaving Savannah this morning heading for Sun Valley (KSUN) in Indiana where owner Steve Wynn has a home.
http://flightaware.com/live/flight/N711SW

The 2nd one was delivered a few hours later. N100A (6010) departed to East Texas (KGGG)

Sad sight at St. Lucie



Steve Smith has kindly sent me these shots taken at St. Lucie in Florida at the end of October. Although complete, trackers show G2 N125DC arrived here in December 2011. G2 N117JJ arrived here in March 2010 and is being slowly dismantled. Older readers may remember this one as PJ-ABA (LGW 2/77)

Latest G550s at LGB



Michael Carter has sent me these shots of new build G550s at Long Beach recently.

B-8268 is believed to be 5387 and XA-MAV to be 5393

First G650 delivery soon?

N607GD (6007) was seen recently at Yuma before heading for Long Beach. Will then be delivered to Las Vegas as N711SW for flying the high rollers. Photographer unknown.

G650 receives FAA type certificate

Gulfstream Aerospace received certification of the G650 on 7th September. See www.gulfstream.com for more details.

G280 certified by FAA and CAA of Israel

Gulfstream's new mid-size jet has received FAA certification. N280GD was pictured at EBACE earlier this year.

See www.gulfstream.com

First overseas customer for the G650?

Jose Barbosa spotted this new G650 at Savannah on 26th August sporting the colours of Airfix. N606GD (6006) will presumably appear on the Finnish register in due course.

Rare G4 visits Luton

It's not often that the arrival of a Gulfstream 4 causes excitement but when the Ivory Coast one landed at Luton last night, the boys started jibbering. TU-VAD is an early build machine (con 1019) and probably last visited the UK in the early 90s.

She departed this evening to Nice using the callsign Ivory Zero Three.

See also http://www.flickr.com/photos/bob-holland/7832297384/

Another Turkish delivery

G450 TC-MZA (4249) was delivered today from Savannah to Istanbul via Luton. For Zorlu Air.

More pics at the following links;

TC-MZA departure and TC-MZA static