United Nations VIP Week 2009 summary. Text and Photos

[SengaB]

Greetings,
Here is the yearly recap of what VIP aircraft showed up during the United Nations General Assembly.
This year was surely the worse VIP Week yet due to the number of planes that showed up during the day and also the quality of the aircraft. Those of us that have been doing this for several years now have seen less and less interesting aircraft and more Generic BBJ ABCJ and Next Generation VIP aircraft flying in place of what had been amazing plane just a few years back. Every year fewer "classic" aircraft like 707s, 727s B747-100/200s and Russian aircraft make it to the US for the UNGA. Since participating in this since 2002 things have changed so much. Unfortunately things were so disappointing this year I will have an abbreviated VIP Week summary of what came in. It doesn't make any sense to keep reposting the same planes over and over again in detail. Also I will omit the day and date of when planes showed up as my spotting was fragmented due to the lack of planes. Whether I do the UNGA again to the extent I have been doing it is in question and this will probably be my last recap. When I look back I can see how fortunate I was to have gotten the very tail end of the good stuff before it was replaced.
For those of you who assisted with making this easier...Thanks it was appreciated.

My one proud highlight for the UNGA this year was the very special Chad MD-87 TT-ABC.

New aircraft for me included:
Air Algerie A330-200
Croatian Challenger CL60
Chad Government MD-87
Swedish Gulfstream 5
Turkmenistan B767-300 (in new Colors)
Conviasa CRJ700
French Government (in new colors)
Mideast Jet 767-200 N767KS (in new colors)
Comlux A318 VQ-BDD
Afriqiyah A300
Gainjet B757-200

This list will also include the following aircraft that were spotting either at night or by other photogs. If you see any I missed or forgot to add please let me know.
Bulgarian T154 LZ-BTZ JFK
Mexican Air Force B752 TP-01 EWR
Equatorial Guinea Falconjet 3C-ONM EWR
Burkina Faso B722 XT-BFA EWR
Vietnam Airlines B772 VN-???? JFK
HiFly A310 CS-TEX JFK
Austrailian Air Force A36-00? HPN


VIP Week 2009 Log(click here)

VIP Week 2008 Log(click here)
VIP Week 2007 Log(click here)
VIP Week 2006 Log(click here)
VIP Week 2005 Log(click here)
VIP Week 2004 Log(click here)
VIP Week 2003-2002 Log(click here)


Please note: Some images posted may have been shot at an earlier date.

[santobonao]

AAll this planes is to transport the presidents to the ONU. On Thursday I saw Japan, Two planes from France and many others and it was so awesome to see this at JFK airport.

[SengaB]

What is the ONU?

Senga

[mirrodie]

Senga, I look forward to your review each year.

You are singlehandedly the most dedicated guy out there! THanks so much for sharing!

[Mayi757]

What is the ONU?

Senga

That's UN, in Spanish & Portuguese: Organizacion de Naciones Unidas. Portuguese: Organização das Nações Unidas

You included photos of the Burkina 727 and Vietnam 777. But I don't see them in your blog. When did they come in??


It'd be great to see a recap of what arrived by date and at what airport, like you've done in years past


-Mario

[moose135]

Thanks for the recap, Senga! It was great seeing you last week, and thanks for all the updates along the way!

[SengaB]

No problem John,
I will be sure to send the bill out to everyone for the cost of all the batteries I ran through on the three scanners I had with me! :)
Glad I could help.

Senga

[fly.mcs]

I really enjoyed looking at all of these Senga!!
Love the Iran Air 747SP and Obama's Air Force One.

[SengaB]

Thanks fly.mcs,
That one is an older shot of EP-IAD from 2 years back. IRA101 came in with little light this year. I was going to use my classic "dissed by Ahmadinejad" shot but decided to use the normal one. He left me down again- How many times can he do this to me?!. Yea I needed AF1 with Obama on it at least once.


Senga

[PhilDernerJr]

great recap, as always, Senga. And you know I love that Iran 707 thing. hahahaha

[Mayi757]

Senga, if you don't answer my question I'm telling Akmedinejihad to not send you a 707 next year either...

[SengaB]

Mario,
Sorry I didn't notice your post.
I left out the "spotted aircraft" as the intro was getting a bit long.
I did go back and re-add it now to you can see few movements that others reported that were not under my watch.
Here's the re-added part.

This list will also include the following aircraft that were spotting either at night or by other photogs. If you see any I missed or forgot to add please let me know.
Bulgarian T154 LZ-BTZ JFK
Mexican Air Force B752 TP-01 EWR
Equatorial Guinea Falconjet 3C-ONM EWR
Burkina Faso B722 XT-BFA EWR
Vietnam Airlines B772 VN-???? JFK
HiFly A310 CS-TEX JFK
Austrailian Air Force A36-00? HPN

Senga

[SengaB]

Phil, Heck yes,
I want that 707 so badly! I'd want it over the 747SP any day.
One day I will hear IRS instead of IRA on the scanner and I will be pleased.

Mario R,
The day I get that plane is the day I stop taking pix :lol:

Mario C,
Thanks for the compliments :)


Senga

[JZ1]

Senga, thanks a lot for your summary and lots of kudos to your dedication. For people like me who can only afford 1 trip to JFK and 1 trip to SWF, your summary is very valuable to have the whole picture of the UN week.
Thanks again.

[SengaB]

Thanks for the compliments Jiasong,
I'm glad I can contribute something that some people find the summary useful.

Senga