The planes at the airport site are thought to be among more than 120 unassembled Spitfires buried at at least three different sites in Burma.
There could be up to 36 buried planes at the end of the airport's runway in Mingaladon and up to 124 aircraft in total, it is thought.
Traces were also found on two planes at Heathrow airport, at the British embassy in Moscow and at a flat in Hamburg, Germany, linked to Mr Kovtun.
Customs officers stationed at the airport monitor planes as they taxi in, then board as soon as the engines shut down to inspect passengers.
Light aeroplanes at Cardiff International Airport were turned over and pushed around while planes at airports around the UK were grounded, stranding thousands of passengers.
The assets also include two of the airline's helicopters, buses used to ferry passengers between planes, and the terminal and other machinery at the airport, Mr. Acharya said.
Both planes were greet at New York's JFK Airport by the city's Mayor, Rudolph Giuliani.
On Sunday, the pace of assistance picked up as three U.S. Marine KC-130J cargo planes carrying water and supplies became the first flights to land at Sendai airport since it closed after the earthquake struck.
There were no problems reported at the airport in the capital, Banjul, with planes taking off and landing as scheduled from the afternoon of 1 January.
In Boston, at Logan International Airport, where two of the hijacked planes originated, the usually busy runways were silent as airplanes remained still, marking a moment of silence when the first jetliner crashed into the World Trade Center.
It is planning further excavations at Rangoon international airport, where it believes 36 planes are buried, and in the central city of Meiktila.
Thirty-six hours of heavy rains paralysed aid deliveries in the south on Thursday and on Friday morning, with all helicopters and planes at Maputo airport grounded.
In 2004 two suicide bombers boarded two separate planes at Domodedovo and managed to kill 88 people after being briefly detained and then released by the airport police.
Ms Yeoh was also seen talking to Aung San Suu Kyi and her younger son Kim Aris at Rangoon airport on Tuesday as both the actress and Mr Aris were waiting to board planes to leave the country.
The Terminal Manager at Lagos's Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Olutayo Oginnie, said some of the abandoned planes were seized for transporting smuggled goods.
Earthquake-induced cracks appeared in the runway at the nearby airport, so it is now being expanded and may be ready for larger planes and better access this year.
There are about a dozen cargo and passenger planes at what workers call the "graveyard", an overgrown field at the far north end of the runway at the airport, which is a major transport hub for West Africa, AP reports.
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