Something that you don't notice unless you look closely- this American Eagle ERJ is an ERJ-140LR, a long range version of the ERJ-140 which itself was a simple shrink of the ERJ-145 that seats six fewer passengers for a total of 44 passengers instead of 50. American Eagle operates the majority of the ERJ-140s built but they're also used in smaller numbers by other airlines.
Eagle's internal documents and the FAA, however, refer to the ERJ-140 as the ERJ-135KL. Go figure. This particular aircraft, N809AE, is the ninth Embraer ERJ-140 built, having beend delivered to American Eagle in October 2001.
The size change to a 44-seat regional jet was driven by having to meet scope clauses with American Airlines as well as other US carriers. As a result the ERJ-140 is primarily unique to the US market.
Nose tight shot of another American Eagle ERJ, this time it's N654AE, an Embraer ERJ-145LR that was built and delivered to the airline in May 2001. I tried experimenting with a higher ISO to get a faster shutter speed in this shot and ended up with a grainier shot. Oh well.
Gotta work in a 757 shot somewhere in this set. This is N619AA, built and delivered to American back in March 1990. Back when some of us sported Flock of Seagulls haircuts. Yikes. But I digress.
N290AS was at one time a tail number assigned to an Alaska Airlines 727, but today it's used by a Beechcraft King Air 300 belonging to the fractional operator Executive Airshare (hence the AS in the tail code). This was the first of two King Airs from Executive Airshare, the other one on a 2 mile final behind this one. This King Air was built in 2000.
This is the second of two sequential King Air arrivals at DFW that afternoon- this is N291AS, a Beechcraft King Air 300 with the Executive Airshare fractional operator. Gotta wonder what's going on that got two King Airs from the same fractional arriving one after the other at DFW. This particular aircraft was built in 2001.
Fine, I'll take a picture of a Ubiquitous-80. This is N7509, an MD-82 built and delivered to American in December 1989.
This is one of small handful of American Eagle "blue tails" in the fleet- notice that the eagle on the tail is all blue instead of red/blue as is standard for the fleet. This particular aircraft, N604AE, appears to have been N604DG at one time with a regular red/blue eagle on the tail, then went to Trans States as N817HK where it wore the blue tail and then back to American Eagle as N604AE. It was built and delivered originally in May 1998.
The blue tails were used on the Trans States ERJs that flew with American Connection titles instead of American Eagle since Trans States wasn't part of AMR. When they went back to Eagle, the tails stayed the same but the titles reverted back to American Eagle.
"Speedbird 193 Heavy, cleared to land 18-Right....."
It's a Boeing 777. What's not to love? This is G-VIIE, a Boeing 777-200ER that was built and delivered to British Airways back in February 1997. In those days it wore the classy Landor scheme and around 2000 or so was repainted in the Chatham Dockyard tail colors that amongst BA's World Tails, became the standard livery for the British Airways fleet after some time.
Wider shot of G-VIIE as it comes in over the numbers on 18R.
A nose shot from a different angle on G-VIIE only seconds from touchdown.
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