British Airways Airbus A319 registered G-EUPC arrived today in Athens to pick up the Olympic Flame for the 2012 Olympic Games in London. The plane is named "The Firefly" and is painted in a special livery for the occasion. This is the first flight of that plane on that livery, since it rolled out of the paintshop in LHR (London, UK) just today and departed as BAW2012 to Athens. It landed at 15:05L on runway 21R and it is parked in the satellite terminal until its departure back to UK on May 18th.
Im quite sure that the athletes are excited to ride “The Firefly.” Aircraft paintings and coatings are specialized paint the passed the testing and examination of aerospace authorities. Painting an aircraft is a maintenance event, which must be recorded in the aircraft logbook.
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It’s sad that I was not able to catch that event while I was in London. The plane was painted nicely!
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