The women basketball team UMMC Jekaterinburg arrived for their recent match with Good Angels in Košice aboard two Fokker 100 twinjets. Both bear Austrian registration (OE-IIB and OE-IIC) and are operated by the International Jet management Company (IJM), which was founded in 2003 and is based at Vienna Schwechat airport. Fokker 100 OE-IIB has construction number 11403 and it made its maiden flight on June 24, 1992 (bearing Dutch registration PH-EZO). Some two weeks later the palne was delivered ...
Administrator Kosice Airport
Tuesday, March 20, 2012 6:26:15 PM CET
You do not see very often the Fairchild Metro III turboprop aircraft standing here on our apron. But sometimes you do – recently a Metro III in the colors of the Spanish company Aeronova paid a visit to our airport. Aeronova, which was founded in 1996 and is based in Valencia, uses six Fairchild Metro IIIs – the full type designation is Fairchild SA-227AC Metro III. The aircraft interior is specifically designed to permit configuration changes between 18 passengers (plus toilet) or a full cargo ...
Administrator Kosice Airport
Thursday, February 23, 2012 1:10:18 PM CET
Many airlines have custom to paint one of their aircraft in so-called retro livery which the company used on all its aircraft some decades ago. This is usually done to commemorate some special event in the history of the company. Czech Airlines now belong to such companies, too, since they had one of their B737-500s aircraft (OK-XGB) repainted in the livery, which was first used on the first jet aircraft of the then Československé aerolínie - on the Tu-104 aircraft bearing the registration OK-LD...
Administrator Kosice Airport
Saturday, February 11, 2012 5:52:07 AM CET
When you are frequent flyer you probably have flown aboard one or another version of the Boeing 737 twin-jet airliner. Currently produced versions of the popular seven-three-seven belong to the 737 NG (Next Generation) family. However, these planes slowly become – mainly due to the progress in the engine efficiency – obsolete. Therefore Boeing started, in 2006, to ponder the development of a brand new family of aircraft (internally named Boeing Y1). However, when Airbus launched the improved Air...
Administrator Kosice Airport
Friday, February 3, 2012 6:26:27 AM CET
