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lijk604
2006-05-07, 07:27 PM
While BBQing dinner tonight I heard a strange bird fly overhead. It was about 1815-1820 local, and it sure as hell looked like it had 4 tail mounted engines. Now where I live aircraft are transitioning from BOS Center to NY Approach, approx 12000 agl, 250 kts. just NE of the ROBER intersection. This aircraft was definitely headed to JFK, it was on the same track as all other European arrivals, and was well too high to be doing a wierd arrival into ISP. So I ask...were any of you guys still at JFK around 1830-1840 when this visitor would have arrived?

John
Patchogue, NY
eric8669
2006-05-07, 07:56 PM
It was an IL-62 arrived on 13L, we where at Bayswater when it landed.
Tom_Turner
2006-05-07, 09:00 PM
It was an IL-62 arrived on 13L, we where at Bayswater when it landed.

ouch! Eric, tell me it was only Russian Govt.
lijk604
2006-05-07, 09:33 PM
I knew it! I knew I wasn't totally crazy.

Thanks Eric!
SengaB
2006-05-07, 10:05 PM
State Transport Company of Russia "Rossia"
It flew in from ADW -it had been there for several days. Flew back shortly after arriving.
http://www.jetphotos.net/viewphoto.php?id=5645568
One nice sounding aircraft.

Senga
eric8669
2006-05-07, 10:29 PM
This is what we got from Bayswater

RA-86712

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y95/southpaw8669/ra-86712_IL62.jpg
Tom_Turner
2006-05-07, 11:21 PM
This is what we got from Bayswater
RA-86712

Nice airliner there.

Two Virgin Atlantics I see together also... maybe thats been normal for a while but can't recall that before.
Iberia A340-600
2006-05-08, 07:39 AM
Nice shot across the bay. I have never seen Air Jamaica parked at the B gates before!
727C47
2006-05-08, 07:46 AM
Bayswater, I have never spotted from there, looks like a good spot, on my last excursion in early,'05, I hit Meadowmere Pk. for the 31L/31R arrivals, and the Crossbay starbucks upper deck, for the 13L/13R arrivals. I havn't seen an Il-62 in years. I used to love CSA 's OK jet livery on the'62.