When August rolled around, I finally had some time to start spotting again and holy crap, it must've been the hottest yet while spotting. Temps 100+ out at the airport and that's before tossing in the heat index. But it's all about planes man, so a middle finger salute to the heat and the heat haze, bastards that they are!
Skywest's CRJ-900 flying as Delta Connection on short final to 18R. This particular aircraft, N817SK, was orginally ordered as a shorter CRJ-700 but the order was switched to a CRJ-900 by Skywest and it was built and delivered in March 2007 to the airline.
First time to finally see it and there's more heat haze out there than can fit in that porta-crapper in the lower left of the shot. There were some workers doing some repairs on the perimeter road and they had quite possibly the most scenic place to go take a dump not far from the end of 18L and 18R.
But I digress.
This is Sun Country's N711SY, a Boeing 737-700 built and delivered to EasyJet in January 2002 as G-EZJJ, but then sold to Sun Country last year- repainted in Sun Country's colors in Southend in the UK before delivery to the airline's hub at Minneapolis.
Another Skywest bird, only this time it's a CRJ-700 in the colors of United Express. Built and delivered to Skywest in October 2004 and has been flying in the colors of United Express since then.
Here's Mexicana's Baby Buslet XA-UBW on the airline's daily early afternoon flight from Mexico City. This Airbus A318, XA-UBW, was built and delivered in June 2005 to aircraft leasing giant GECAS who in turn has had it leased out to Mexicana since then.
This is N804SY, one of Sun Country's Boeing 737-800s. This particular aircraft was built and delivered to leasing giant ILFC in July 2001 and they've had it leased to Sun Country since then.
Rolling out of the West Cargo complex for an intersection takeoff on 18R, this aircraft is HL7604, a Boeing 747-400F, built and delivered to Korean Air Cargo in October 2005.
Frickin' heat haze..........
Sailing in over the numbers on a charter flight from Cancun, here's Aeromexico Travel's MD-83 tail number N538MD. Originally built and delivered in January 1988 to Aeropostal of Venezuela as YV-39C, she was then sold to Aeromexico and a few years ago then passed on to the charter subsidiary Aeromexico Travel.
Heading out for an intersection takeoff on 18R, EVA Air Cargo's 747-400F tail number B-16482 was built and delivered to the airline in July 2001. In the background is an American Eagle ATR headed out.
Now arriving from Seattle, Alaska Flight 660...on time.....this Boeing 737-800 was built and delivered to Alaska in February 2006.
This is probably one of the newest planes I've shot at DFW- this TACA ERJ-190 was built and delivered to the airline just in June of this year and is arriving as TACA Flight 440 nonstop from San Salvador, El Salvador. Nice to see it on this side of the airport for a change, in the past I've had to go to the east side of DFW to get it.
Yet another Skywest CRJ, this time it's a CRJ-900 in the new Delta Connection colors. This particular jet was built and delivered to Skywest in January of this year.
My special catch for this particular day, a Ryan International Boeing 767-300 arrives on a military charter. This particular aircraft, N123DN, was built and delivered in September 1987 to Delta Airlines and you can see the basic underlying colors are still Delta's Deltaflot colors. There's even still a Skyteam logo between the forward pax door and the cockpit. She was then sold to Ryan International last year and has been operating trooping charters since then.
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