After my dropping my aunt and uncle off at PDX for their month-long stay in Utah at the start of this month, my uncle came back at the beginning of this week to take care of some business he needed to be back in Oregon for (he tends to break up his month-long stay in Utah with a week back in Oregon regardless). This morning, I had to take him back to Portland so he could catch his flight back to Utah. It was a clear, yet freezing morning and my usual spotting location was closed due to ice being a slipping hazard. There wasn't anything notable to chase down in terms of spotting, so I only stuck around long enough until my uncle's outbound flight departed before leaving myself.
Portland (PDX)
Preview:
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| Hawaiian Airlines Airbus A330-243 (N392HA) airborne off of 10R as HAL25 for Honolulu. |
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| The lucky passengers on this flight are definitely going someplace warm! |
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| American Airlines Airbus A321-231 (N900UW) airborne off of 10R as AAL2577 for Dallas/Fort Worth. |
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| Ameriflight Beechcraft C99 Airliner (N81820) airborne off of 10R as AMF1926 for Newport. |
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| Ameriflight Embraer EMB-120RT Brasilia (N201YW) departing on 10R as AMF1906 for Redmond. |
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| Haven't photographed a Brasilia in a while... |
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| Empire Airlines (d/b/a FedEx Feeder) Cessna 208B Super Cargomaster (N863FE) airborne off of 10R as CFS8692 for Redmond. |
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| Alaska Airlines Boeing 737-990/ER (N278AK) airborne off of 10R as ASA1210 for Puerto Vallarta. People escaping the frigid cold for a warmer vacation destination! |
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| Allegiant Air Airbus A320-216 (N209NV) arriving on 10R as AAY1591 from Provo. The plane that would take my uncle back to Utah in. |
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| Empire Airlines (d/b/a FedEx Feeder) Cessna 208B Super Cargomaster (N940FE) airborne off of 10R as CFS8686 for North Bend. |
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| Empire Airlines (d/b/a FedEx Feeder) Cessna 208B Super Cargomaster (N788FE) airborne off of 10R as CFS8669 for Newport. |
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| Empire Airlines (d/b/a FedEx Feeder) Cessna 208B Super Cargomaster (N859FE) airborne off of 10R as CFS8678 for Medford. |
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| Ameriflight Beechcraft C99 Airliner (N193SU) airborne off of 10R as AMF5133 for La Grande. |
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| Alaska Airlines Boeing 737-990/ER (N236AK) airborne off of 10R as ASA1209 for San José del Cabo. Yet another Alaska flight going someplace warmer! As it turns out, Alaska Airlines serves more Mexican destinations out PDX than any other carrier at the moment and takes advantage of the market during the winter season. |
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| Spirit Airlines Airbus A320-232 (N611NK) arriving on 10R as NKS2228 from Las Vegas. |
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| Atlas Air (d/b/a Amazon Air) Boeing 767-36N/ER/BDSF (N1013A) airborne off of 10R as GTI3850 for Baltimore. |
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| Ameriflight Beechcraft 1900C-1 (N1568G) airborne off of 10R as AMF1994 for Klamath Falls. |
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| N209NV airborne off of 10R as AAY1600 for the return-trip to Provo. My uncle's on board this aircraft! Formerly JA02VA with Vanilla Air, a defunct ultra low-cost subsidiary of All Nippon Airways - ANA that was started in June 2013 by the parent company after Malaysian low-cost carrier AirAsia withdrew its investment of AirAsia Japan. |
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| In 2018, ANA announced that Vanilla Air would be merged with another one of their ULCC subsidiaries, Peach Aviation and Vanilla Air officially ceased operations in late-2019. With Peach Aviation picking up newer A320neo aircraft, the older A320ceos were re-allocated elsewhere. This airframe briefly flew for All Nippon Airways before it left Japan for delivery to Allegiant at the end of 2021. |
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