Ultra Rare visit of Mahan Air Airbus A310 to Mumbai Airport

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The Airbus A310 is a medium- to long-range twin-engined wide-body airliner that was developed and manufactured by Airbus. It was developed from Airbus’ first Airliner, the Airbus A300.

The Airbus A310 first flew on 3rd April, 1982 and entered revenue service in April, 1983 with launch customer SwissAir. It was in production from 1983 till 1998 and a total of 255 Airbus A310s were built.

As of October 2019, around 30-35 Airbus A310s are still active. (6 Air Transat, 8 Mahan Air, 3 FedEx, 2 Iran Air, 1 Taban Airlines, 3 ULS Cargo, Yemenia 1 and a few with Governments and Air Forces)

With the arrival of new fuel-efficient airplanes, most airlines have already retired or are in the process of retiring these Classic Airbus A310s. It is rare to spot an A310 these days, but even rarer to spot its passenger version.

On this day (19th July, 2019), I was very lucky as Mahan Air’s A310 came to Mumbai Airport out of the blue. She was operating on behalf of Iran Air and this was her first ever visit to Mumbai Airport.

I’m a big fan of these A310s and I hope to photograph them many times before they’re gone forever.

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