Iron Maiden 757

Astraeus Air's 757-23A that's painted in the special Iron Maiden livery is in town as AEU666. The flight arrived around midnight from Nadi.

The jet named "Ed Force One", G-OJIB (c/n 24292), is taking the band on its "Somewhere Back in Time World Tour 09". Lead singer Bruce Dickinson is also a 757 captain, and is reportedly piloting some of the flights.


Amusingly, this is the 666th post for the HNL RareBirds blog ... kinda appropriate huh?


A big mahalo to team member Aeros for taking the photos above.

Mokulele Jets To Kahului

Mokulele Airlines began flying their E170 between HNL and OGG on February 1st. N870RW (msn 1700138) is shown arriving today as Flight 214.

SunState Airlines' C-FUOI

QantasLink's SunState Airlines is taking delivery of C-FUOI, a DHC-8-402Q (msn 4238). It's arriving here from YYZ via YYB, GRR, and CCR, later today.

Lion Air's PK-LFT

Lion Air International is taking delivery of PK-LFT, their next 737-9GER(W), and will be making its stop at HNL today as LNI001.