Identify the plane please!

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Wednesday 1st December 2010
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Just flown into BHX. Turboprop twin, high wing, bit of anhedral, quite a big tail (conventional, not T) with a long fillet thingy. Almost slightly Russian in appearance, about the size of a Dash 7. And noisy!

Bit snowy for a photo from the office window, sorry!

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Wednesday 1st December 2010
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Spot on sir!

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Thursday 2nd December 2010
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OK then stop press…another interesting aircraft in BHX today!

Also looks Russian, slight anhedral again. Apart from that it looks like the spitting image of a Herc, albeit a bit slimmer, and with more of the wheels visible due to longer oleos. White upper fuselage, grey lower, with a very obvious matt black anti-glare panel under the windscreen just shouts Antonov or similar to me. Can't give any more detail as I can only see it nose on.

Over to you Eric...

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Thursday 2nd December 2010
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Could be...but not sure I can see the "bombardier's" position!

It's running up now so I will see it properly in a mo...

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Thursday 2nd December 2010
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Spot on again!

Great looking aircraft, however it was throwing so much crap out of the engines on climbout I thought he was on fire!

So what's going on with all this interesting Russki stuff in BHX at the moment then?

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Thursday 2nd December 2010
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Perhaps I should have gone on Catchphrase.

"Just say what you see!"