Gallery Update: Pak West Metro 23 in Salem!

Another casual look at FlightAware and FlightRadar24 showed me that another one of Pak West/Sierra West Airlines Fairchild Metroliner variants (a Metro 23) flew into Salem today. So naturally, I decided to take my camera and get a few ramp shots of it! This is the third time this year I got to see a "Texas Lawn Dart" in Salem!

Salem (SLE) 32

Preview:

Pak West Airlines (d/b/a Sierra West Airlines) Fairchild SA227-DC Metro 23 (N852DR) parked on the ramp. Arrived from Twin Falls as PKW830. Always a novelty seeing a Metroliner in Salem!

Airframe first delivered to Belgian courier TBC Halbart Aviation operating on the behalf of Spanish airline Ibertrans Aérea as EC-421 before being re-registered as EC-GLI during the mid-1990s. It then flew for the now-defunct Big Sky Airlines as N453LA during the late-1990s into the early-2000s. It was then acquired by Canadian charter carrier Sunwest Aviation as C-GMWW starting in 2010 before Sierra West acquired the airframe.