Hope everyone had an enjoyable Christmas in spite of the ongoing challenges, limitations, and restrictions that have been at the forefront of an equally challenging, dumpster fire of a year that's 2020 (it's almost over thankfully!). While I missed any potential Christmas-time/peak season highlights this month due to lousy weather and a busy work schedule, a spotting trip to Portland today was still worthwhile and I'm going to make it my last major outing for the year. Highlights to this trip include catching two Airbus A320neos, one of which was from Volaris in their old livery. I also got to see another Airbus A319 in the new United Airlines livery. And best of all, I got to see another heritage livery from American Airlines, namely the old TWA retro jet!
Preview:
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| United Airlines Airbus A320-232 (N429UA) taxiing for departure as UAL2214 for Denver. |
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| United Airlines Airbus A319-132 (N874UA) taxiing in to the gate after arrival from Denver as UAL242. Formerly B-6021 with China Southern Airlines. My second time seeing the new United livery! |
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| Omni Air Transport Learjet 45 (N340SR) taxiing for departure as DRL34 for New Braunfels, Texas. |
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| DRL34 departing on 10L for New Braunfels. |
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| American Airlines Boeing 737-823 (N915NN) in the TWA heritage livery departing on 10R as AAL29 for Dallas-Fort Worth. I am absolutely thrilled to finally photograph one of the most iconic airline liveries in aviation history! |
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| American added the TWA heritage livery (along with other airlines they absorbed) after completing their merger with US Airways, which started the trend of painting retro liveries on their jets to pay homage to their heritage. Glad to see American carry on the tradition! |
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| Alaska Airlines Boeing 737-900/ER (N275AK) departing on 10L as ASA332 for Fort Lauderdale. Alaska only just recently started flying to Fort Lauderdale from Portland just a few months prior. |
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| Delta Air Lines Airbus A321-211 (N385DZ) arriving on 10L as DAL743 from Detroit. |
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| DAL743 taxiing to the gate. |
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| Learjet 60 (N252RP) taxiing for departure to Teterboro. |
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| N252RP departing on 10L for Teterboro. |
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| Southwest Airlines Boeing 737-7H4 (N229WN) arriving on 10L as SWA573 from Phoenix Sky Harbor. |
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| Pilatus PC-12/47 (N220JP) departing on 10L. |
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| Alaska Airlines Boeing 737-990/ER (N403AS) departing on 10L as ASA606 for Phoenix Sky Harbor. |
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| American Airlines Boeing 737-823 (N819NN) taxiing to the gate after arrival on 10R as AAL1220 from Phoenix Sky Harbor. |
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| Frontier Airlines Airbus A320-214 (N216FR) "Cliff the Mountain Goat" taxiing to the gate after arrival on 10R as FFT793 from Denver. |
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| NetJets Cessna 680A Citation Latitude (N639QS) taxiing for departure as EJA639 for Bozeman. |
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| EJA639 departing on 10L for Bozeman. |
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| Cessna 501 Citation I/SP (N70NB) taxiing for departure to Salinas. |
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| N874UA taxiing for departure as UAL1888 for Houston-Intercontinental. |
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| N70NB departing on 10L for Salinas. |
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| UAL1888 departing on 10L for Houston-Intercontinental. |
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| Volaris Airbus A320-271N (N529VL) arriving on 10L as VOI956 from Guadalajara. Glad to see a Volaris A320neo in the airline's older livery with the black engine nacelles instead the new magenta ones! |
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| VOI956 taxiing to the gate. From what I can gather, there are only a handful of A320neos that were delivered to Volaris in this livery before they added some color and larger, billboard titles. |
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| Spirit Airlines Airbus A320-271N (N927NK) arriving on 10L as NKS765 from Las Vegas. |
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| NKS765 taxiing to the gate. |
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| Frontier Airlines Airbus A321-211 (N705FR) "Ferndale the Pygmy Owl" arriving on 10L as FFT2171 from Las Vegas. |
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| FFT2171 taxiing to the gate. |
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