STP Airways is the national airline of Sao Tome and Principe. At the moment they do not have their own airplanes. For the weekly flight from the island nation to Lisbon they use a Euro Atlantic Boeing 767 and for the local flights between Sao Tome and Principe they use this Sevenair Jetstream CS-DVQ. The Airplane is scheduled for 2 to 3 round trips 5 days a week. The flight takes about 45 minutes.

Cavok Air suffered a birdstrike on the left engine during the take off run on 29 July 2017. The take off was aborted after V1 at a speed of 220 km/h and the aircraft was unable to stop, and dropped of the end of runway 29. A detailed summary of the crash can be found on the Aviation Safety Network website. Now 7 years later the airplane still remains on the ground at Sao Tome. From this angle the ripped of cockpit and left outer wing can clearly be seen.

This B737 Max-8 was originally delivered to Chinese airline OKAir in 2018. But after only 4 months of flying it was stored at Tjianjin. The Max was grounded worldwide after two crashes and OKAir returned both their Max to leasing company AerCap. They remained on the ground in China until both were leased to Asky in 2023. ET-BAR is seen here just after landing on runway 11 and turning towards the terminal at Sao Tome.

ASECNA, The Agency for Aerial Navigation Safety in Africa and Madagascar (L'Agence pour la Sécurité de la Navigation aérienne en Afrique et à Madagascar) is an air traffic control agency based in Dakar, Senegal. They provide Air Traffic Control services, both local and area, in 18 African countries, covering 15 million square kilometers of airspace. They use this Sovereign for calibration flights for landing and navigational aids. Even though the nation of Sao Tome and Principe is not covered by ASECNA, their Ce680 6V-CEV visited the islands to calibrate the navigation beacons on both islands.

This Global Express of BestFly had arrived the previous night from Kinshasa and departed early afternoon for a direct flight to Horta in the Azores. BestFly is based in Angola, but has a lot of the business Jets they manage on the register of Aruba. The also have airline operations under this name in places like Cabo Verde and Angola.

Afrijet Business Service connects their home base in Libreville (Gabon) with both Sao Tome and Principe twice a week. They also have traffic rights to sell tickets on the domestic flight between the two islands.

On Sunday morning Asky has a flight from Libreville (Gabon) via Sao Tome to their hub in Lome (Togo). Here it is seen backtracking on runway 29 for a west bound departure. This 737 was originally delivered to Oman Air as A4O-BAH in 2017, but after Corona found a new home in Lome.

Guerima in the State of Vichada about 90 minutes flying east of Villavicencio. Guerima has a 4000ft dirt runway 04/22 and is located at N3°37'48" W70°19'23". There are about 50 families living in and around Guerima. Most are now in a government sponsored project called 'From Coca to Cacao'. Trying to build a small cacao industry in this part of the jungle.

Morelia airfield services the Morelia Oil plant in eastern Meta Province. It is about 60 minutes flying east of Villavicencio, or a 6 hour drive to the nearest paved road near the town of Puerto Gaitan (Meta). From there it would be another 12 hour drive to Bogota. The location is at 3°45′00″N 71°27′22″W.

Smartlynx Malta

Landing runway 18R

There is already a market for secondhand A321Neos. This is ex Novair SE-RKB, who had it for 6 years. Taken up by Uzbek operator MyFreighter, who flies it for passenger airline Centrum Air. It was delivered on 19 July 2024 and after a few domestic flights in Uzbekistan the new A321Neo was subleased to FlyOne from Moldova.

N127FE was previously used on a Fedex B727-100, that airframe is now an instructional airframe at Winnipeg. N127FE is now a B767 delivered new to Fedex in September 2015 and named HaileyAnna.

Air France' second A350 was delivered on 6 September 2019 and named after the French city of Lyon.

Ex Garuda Indonesia Max 8, only flew as PK-GDA for about 1 year. Now one of the many all white European charter aircraft. This one operated by Smartlynx Malta for A-Jet, departing to Istanbul.

Just above the airport fence along runway 06 in the early morning.

45 Year old (!) Learjet 35, now in use as an Ambulance aircraft. The airplane had just arrived at the General Aviation Terminal, with awaiting ambulance and crew transport.

this jet arrived earlier today, route was from Taipei via Bangkok and Trabzon to Amsterdam. Total travel time aprox 20 hours.