Civilian Aviation

For the December competition here's something slightly different, a photo of an aircraft with at least two of the four letters X,M,A & S anywhere in the registration, so it could be in the prefix e.g. XA- or in the remainder such as G- AXNS so that's three of the four letters (come on Mike what sort of aircraft is G-AXNS?) - I'll give a bonus point if you can enter one with all 4 letters in the registration e.g. Argosy G-ASXM! As always it must be a civilian registration and NOT military.

The closing date will be 23.59 on 7th January 2025

The full rules are available here: viewtopic.php?f=237&t=51350

- get searching!
Andy

PA-32RT G-XMAS at Shoreham in the early Eighties.

Happy Christmas to all.
Pete.


PA-32 G-XMAS Shoreham

Trident G-AZXM at LHR in 1978.
12a BA Trident G-AZXM, Heathrow 1978 by Ian Pursey, on Flickr

Had a choice of two with three of the four letters.

Went with this one.

IMG_1735 by Laurence Bean, on Flickr

What is better than Disneyland at XMAS!
N318AS Boeing 737-990 Alaska Airlines St Louis Lambert 27 September 2012

N318AS St Louis Lambert 27 September 2012 by ACW367, on Flickr

Enjoy ACW367

Navywings' Seafire XVII G-KASX/SX336 at Shuttleworth's Race Day in October 2023...
Supermarine Seafire XVII (SX336) by Professor M, on Flickr

(A few more from that show here: viewtopic.php?f=73&t=48360)

XA-AMX landing at Heathrow on 10 October 2022.

XA-AMX by wokinghampaul, on Flickr

D-AXGA Dub 2 by Paul Harvey, on Flickr

D-AXGA at Dublin

well, I've found three with all 4 letters now , I searched my photos for SX- to see what Greek aircraft I had and this came up in the results, B.737 SX-MAI of Air Mediterranean departing Stansted in December 2017:

SX-MAI B.737 Air Mediterranean Stansted 02-12-2917 1459 by Andrew Goldsmith, on Flickr

I also found it's sister ship SX-MAH taken a week later and SX-NAM, A321 of Aegean taken at Heathrow in September 2023 - I was surprised that I had them- memory is failing
Good luck everybody and thanks for your support for the photo comps in 2024

I also know another regular on the forums and competition entrant who stood next to me when I took this so he has some of it as well - I wonder if we will get a second pic of it (or SX-MAH)

Andy

South African Airways A330- 343E ZS-SXK Landing runway 27L from JNB
ZS-SXK LHR 2.7.19 by Mike stanners, on Flickr

Beagle Pup G-AXNS after a landing accident at Gamston about 35 years ago............................

Mexicana B727-200 on short finals to MIA in September 1996 - XA-MXJ

Mexicana B727-200 by Denis Noonan, on Flickr

Denis.

XMAS: Not all of the letters - and not all of the aircraft. ZS-MAD at Lanseria in November 2014.

ZS-MAD F28-4000 by Ian Tate, on Flickr

entries are now closed and the voting poll is open here: viewtopic.php?f=110&t=51704

thanks to everybody who entered
Andy