Frontier's "Grace the Trumpeter Swan" just seconds from touchdown on 18R while a Delta MD-88 departs in the distance from 17R on the east side. This particular Frontier aircraft, N904FR, is an Airbus A319 built in August 2001 for leasing giant GECAS who in turn has it leased out to Frontier.
Just another hot-as-habaneros day as a UPS freighter heads out from the ramp adjacent to Founders' Plaza. This particular cargo bird, N128UP, is an Airbus A300F-600R built and delivered to UPS in December 2000. Looks like she got her new colors relatively recently. It would appear that both Airliners.net and JetPhotos.Net have photos of this aircraft only in the old colors.
Close up shot of the nose of Singapore Airlines Cargo Boeing 747-400F on short final, tail number 9V-SFK, built and delivered to Singapore Airlines in February 2002.
Singapore Airlines Cargo 747-400F (tail number 9V-SFK) plants it on 18R with the International Terminal in the background. [Homer drool]Mmmmmmm....triple slotted flaps.........[/Homer drool]
American Airlines Boeing 767-300ER late afternoon arrival to DFW....This aircraft I believe was coming from South America. N395AN, built and delivered to American in June 1998. This was one of the few times I've gotten to shoot in the late afternoon and the lighting was much easier to work with than the harsh early afternoon sun when I have done most of my past spotting.
Alaska's early evening arrival from Seattle sailing in over the numbers for 18R. This aircraft, N594AS, is a Boeing 737-800 built and delivered to Alaska in March 2008.
On short final in the evening light, here's N638AA, a Boeing 757-200 built and delivered to American back in February 1991 and recently retrofitted with blended winglets.
Another one of my obligatory shots of a UPS MD-11F parked next to Founders' Plaza. This particular aircraft, N296UP, was built and delivered as a passenger aircraft to Delta as N803DE back in December 1991. Delta then passed her on to World Airways who had her painted in their classic retro colors for their first flights into Vietnam since the end of the Vietnam War. From there she then was to be wet-leased to an outfit called Swiss Skies, but that fell through and she was picked up by UPS for conversion to a freighter. This was done in March of last year by Singapore Air Services Company at Paya Lebar.
N14324 is a Boeing 737-300 built originally in February 1986 for New York Air and subsequently folded into Continental's fleet (back when Frankie "Smooth Talk" Lorenzo was brushing up on his qualifications to get banned from the airline industry by an act of Congress). This flight was arriving from Houston- I think she was retrofitted with blended winglets just last year.
Damn you, heat haze. On a cloudy day, too! And the first time I get to catch Alaska Airlines' 737-800 in the special Dreamliner scheme. This aircraft, N512AS, was built and delivered to Alaska in July 2008.
Here's EVA Air Cargo's 747-400BCF (Boeing Converted Freighter) holding for an intersection takeoff on 18R. Built originally in January 1995 in passenger configuration for EVA Air, she was recently converted to freighter configuration by Israeli Aircraft Industries in Tel Aviv in April of this year.
Dang it, didn't get the tail number of this American 767-300ER as I was trying to get a close up shot of the nose. Usually I'll take a wider shot so I can make note of the tail number. Oh well. If I remember right, this particular arrival was coming from South America.
I love these colors. This is Aeromexico's Boeing 737-700 N842AM, built and delivered in October 2005 for leasing giant ILFC who in turn has had it leased to Aeromexico since then.
Screw you, heat haze....this is N838AM, a McDonnell Douglas MD-83 (sorry, I ain't gonna call it a Boeing MD-83) built in November 1986 originally for Braathens Sweden who then passed it to AirTran who then passed to Aeromexico who then passed it like a party bong to their charter division, Aeromexico Travel. Notice that it has an American Airlines MD-80 nose cone.
If was smart, I would have framed this aircraft with the Aeromexico 737-700 that arrived on 18R as this MD-83 positioned itself on 18L. But I was too busy cursing the heat haze.
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