Unusual find in Karachi

kashan · Post by **kashan** » Fri Mar 06, 2009 11:31 pm

I came across a balloon wala selling those pool toys that you fill with air and he had an Arkia Israel Airlines 757 model, was selling it for Rs.170.

ConnieMan · Post by **ConnieMan** » Sat Mar 07, 2009 2:45 am

Did you buy those B757s from him then?

Post pictures if you did and does he have more of them??

PK777 · Post by **PK777** » Sat Mar 07, 2009 3:00 am

haha,... Ive seen Kuwaiti, Saudi, PIA as well as Virgin!! lol

Nadir Ali · Post by **Nadir Ali** » Sat Mar 07, 2009 4:00 am

What's Arkia? Never read or heard of it. Only Israeli careers Im farmiliar with are El Al and israair.

ConnieMan · Post by **ConnieMan** » Sat Mar 07, 2009 6:39 am

Nadir Ali wrote:What's Arkia? Never read or heard of it. Only Israeli careers Im farmiliar with are El Al and israair.

It's another charter/ low fare carrier flying in Israel.

http://www.airliners.net/search/photo.s ... humbnails=

Nadir Ali · Post by **Nadir Ali** » Sat Mar 07, 2009 11:43 am

Israel is so small do they have so many destinations domestic?

kashan · Post by **kashan** » Sat Mar 07, 2009 11:21 pm

I didnt buy it and he just had one, anyways it was a very crude interpretation of a 757 not literally like it infact I wouldnt even call it a 757 just a jet aircraft like thing in Arkia livery, but still an interesting item to be here in Pakistan.

ConnieMan · Post by **ConnieMan** » Sun Mar 08, 2009 5:07 am

kashan wrote:I didnt buy it and he just had one, anyways it was a very crude interpretation of a 757 not literally like it infact I wouldnt even call it a 757 just a jet aircraft like thing in Arkia livery, but still an interesting item to be here in Pakistan.

Well good effort but good to pass on too...

kashan · Post by **kashan** » Sun Mar 08, 2009 8:57 pm

I went looking for the guy again luckily he was roaming the same area so I bought it last night for Rs.100, its quite odd looking part 757-300 part A321 small wings and tail, 777 style huge APU area, miniscule engines but like I said a nice find, seems to be official souvenier with Arkia website address and actual registration 4X-BAW of one of their 757-300 on it too, wonder if whole seller knows its illegal to import these.

As a kid I recall seeing Saudia and Pan Am 747s of such type but not PIA.

ND707 · Post by **ND707** » Wed Mar 11, 2009 6:51 am

tut, tut..
mossad working under cover in Khi ..

ConnieMan · Post by **ConnieMan** » Wed Mar 11, 2009 8:55 am

ND707 wrote:tut, tut..
mossad working under cover in Khi ..

Don't be a pot stirrer on here!!

ConnieMan · Post by **ConnieMan** » Wed Mar 11, 2009 8:56 am

kashan wrote:I went looking for the guy again luckily he was roaming the same area so I bought it last night for Rs.100, its quite odd looking part 757-300 part A321 small wings and tail, 777 style huge APU area, miniscule engines but like I said a nice find, seems to be official souvenier with Arkia website address and actual registration 4X-BAW of one of their 757-300 on it too, wonder if whole seller knows its illegal to import these.

As a kid I recall seeing Saudia and Pan Am 747s of such type but not PIA.

Post it's picture or two, lets see this mixed creation....

Nadir Ali · Post by **Nadir Ali** » Fri Mar 13, 2009 1:51 am

ConnieMan wrote:
ND707 wrote:tut, tut..
mossad working under cover in Khi ..
Don't be a pot stirrer on here!!

he had to be sarcastic on that one

Nadir Ali · Post by **Nadir Ali** » Fri Mar 13, 2009 1:54 am

kashan wrote:I went looking for the guy again luckily he was roaming the same area so I bought it last night for Rs.100, its quite odd looking part 757-300 part A321 small wings and tail, 777 style huge APU area, miniscule engines but like I said a nice find, seems to be official souvenier with Arkia website address and actual registration 4X-BAW of one of their 757-300 on it too, wonder if whole seller knows its illegal to import these.

As a kid I recall seeing Saudia and Pan Am 747s of such type but not PIA.

I once bought a plastic A330-200 model in Karachi from a Bangladeshi guy selling stuff on the street. he sold it for RS 50.

It was actually a realstic 1:200 scale but the landing gear under the wings was fake and the fesalage was mad eof tranparent plastic-glass but ootherwise it was real in scale & shape. When i compared to my Emirates A340-500 model in the same scale it's the same comparison between a real A330-200 and A340-500

kashan · Post by **kashan** » Tue Mar 17, 2009 9:58 pm

Ran into balloon guy again and he had more of the Arkia planes so its not a rare item.