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Icelandic Coast Guard Airbus H225LP (reg. TF-EIR) // Source: Flugblogg

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What is the hidden upgrade for the Icelandic Coast Guard

The newest helicopters for Icelandic Coast Guard look identically as previous. The main differences are hidden from eyes under shiny metal. Flugblogger has looked inside and found out what Icelandic…

Airbus Helicopter H130 (reg. OE-XCF) will be exclusively available for Circle Air during the summer 2019 // Source: Circle Air

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3 min

How Circle Air expands with rotary-wing rounds

North Iceland based charter and Tours Company Circle Air is expanding its service. On the way to its goal, they made an agreement with Austrian- based helicopter lessor Heli-Austria. Flugblogger…

Keflavik airport terminal // Source: Isavia

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9 min

Back to the future. Why Keflavik paxflow drops to the lowest in two years (updated 22.february)

After the record paxflow in 2018, Keflavik faces disappointment. Fewer passengers in the main Icelandic airport will affect tourism in Iceland, which became the main country´s industry for the past…

Air Iceland Connect Bombardier Dash 8 Q200 TF-FXK is departing from Ísafjörður // Source: Pilot Pirks

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Most impressive aviation photos 2018

The 2018 year was interesting and full of events for aviation in Iceland. Here we present complex view on major events from aviators point of view through the photos contributed…

DC-3 reg. TF-NPK // Source: Flugsafn Íslands (Hörður Geirsson)

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How “DC3 Þristavinir” rescue the plane

The last flying Icelandic DC-3 could be ruined in days when a group of aviation enthusiasts rallied around the plane. They convinced the state-owner to let them take care of…

Hallgrimur Jónsson and DC-3 TF-NPK // Source: Flugblogg

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8 min

One story for two: the pilot and the airplane

There are two veterans going to face anniversary together. Both were born during World War II, one in Iceland and second in the US. They had met in 1962, flew…

The "Eagle Air" Dornier 328 (reg. TF-ORI) // Source: Flugblogg

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8 min

New wings for the “Eagle”

Icelandic regional airline “Eagle Air” has put its Dornier 328 on commercial flights for the first time. This is the biggest aircraft for the whole history of the private company,…

Bell 407 in Reykjavik airport // Source: Helo

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How helicopters tours in Reykjavik were chilled by coldest summer

The summer of 2018 in Reykjavik was officially named the coldest one for the past century. Gloomy weather became another bad factor for Icelandic tourism, together with strengthening krona and…

Reykjavik Airshow 2018 from the cabin of flying Icelandair DC-3 (reg. TF-NPK) // Source: Flugblogg

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Reykjavik Airshow 2018 from the top: new aircrafts, banned militaries and rain

After 3 months of postponing the airshow finally has happened in Reykjavik. Crouching through nasty forecasts of the coldest Icelandic summer for past 100 years, the event brought most part…

Icelandair Boeing 757 is departing from Reykjavik airport // Source: Karl Georg Karlsson

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Why Icelandair wants to buy two Atlantic airlines-bankrupts (updated 31.July)

Icelandair group, which includes Icelandic national carrier Icelandair, in the middle of the process of purchase a significant shareholding in two airlines, which commercial situation is more than gloomy. Both…

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Icelandair has repainted the first plane with new livery ... See MoreSee Less

Icelandair has repainted the first plane with new livery

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Icelandic flag carrier Icelandair started to repaint its fleet with new livery. The plane was noticed in Norwich Airport...

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Ugly

It looks plain and boring like finnair 🤷🏼‍♀️

Fallegar flugvélar 🥳🥳❤️✈️

Nope

forljótt

It somehow lost that "premium quality " feel with the tail logo no longer being golden.

Looks low budget

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Loftrýmisgæsla Atlantshafsbandalagsins við Ísland hefst í vikunni með komu flugsveitar portúgalska flughersins hingað til lands. Þetta er í annað sinn sem Portúgalar taka þátt í verkefninu hér á landi en síðast annaðist portúgalski flugherinn loftrýmisgæslu á Íslandi fyrir áratug. Flugsveitin kemur til landsins með fjórar F-16 orrustuþotur og um 85 liðsmenn sem hafa aðsetur á öryggissvæðinu á Keflavíkurflugvelli. Gert er ráð fyrir að portúgalska flugsveitin geri aðflugsæfingar að varaflugvöllum á Akureyri og Egilsstöðum á tímabilinu 31. janúar til 7. febrúar en æfingarnar taka mið af veðri. Portúgalski flugherinn tekur þátt í verkefninu ásamt starfsmönnum í stjórnstöðvum Atlantshafsbandalagsins í Uedem, Þýskalandi (Combined Air Operations Center) og á öryggissvæðinu á Keflavíkurflugvelli. Framkvæmd verkefnisins er með sama hætti og áður og í samræmi við loftrýmisgæsluáætlun Atlantshafsbandalagsins fyrir Ísland. Eins og með annan erlendan liðsafla sem hér á landi dvelur tímabundið þá er í gildi viðbúnaður vegna sóttvarna meðan á dvöl portúgölsku flugsveitarinnar stendur og er framkvæmdin unnin í samvinnu við embætti landlæknis og aðra sem koma að sóttvörnum hér á landi. Landhelgisgæsla Íslands annast framkvæmd verkefnisins í umboði utanríkisráðuneytisins og í samvinnu við Isavia. Ráðgert er að loftrýmisgæslunni ljúki í lok mars.Mynd: Portúgalski flugherinn ... See MoreSee Less

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In the making …TF-KALPA-18Hækkandi sól og styttist í sumarið ... See MoreSee Less