Ignoring the fact that I did a spotting trip to Portland just three days ago, I still had an objective towards redemption that could only be spotted on Sundays! Late last month,
I tried to chase down a Kalitta Air Boeing 767 freighter but I missed it by a matter of minutes! Since then, I kept an eye on FlightRadar24 at the Sunday morning arrival and departure trends, and lo and behold, the Kalitta Air 767 that I've been wanting to photograph has been making runs up and down the west coast on Sundays! So once again, I set out to catch this rare sight and I'm happy to say that this Sunday morning go at PDX was much more successful!
In addition to Kalitta Air's 767, I was also pleased to catch a few special liveries. I also finally got to see Sun Country Airlines' newest livery for the first time. I also got to photograph one of Jazz Air's Dash 8s after being absent for a few months due to COVID-19 restrictions.
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| American Airlines Boeing 737-823 (N941NN) departing on 28L as AAL2216 for Dallas-Fort Worth. |
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| American Airlines Airbus A321-231 (N578UW) in the US Airways heritage livery taxiing for departure as AAL1929 for Charlotte. Very pleased to finally catch the US Airways heritage livery! As the merger between American Airlines and US Airways was wrapping up, this airframe (originally for US Airways) was painted in the final US Airways livery, but was given the American Airlines title and logo straight out of the factory. So technically, this A321 actually never had the US Airways name painted on its fuselage when it was delivered. |
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| AAL1929 departing on 28L for Charlotte. |
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| Southwest Airlines Boeing 737-800 (N8577Z) airborne off 28R as SWA1135 for Denver. |
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| Delta Air Lines Boeing 737-932/ER (N810DN) departing on 28R as DAL2266 for Salt Lake City. |
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| Delta Air Lines Boeing 737-900/ER (N891DN) airborne off 28R as DAL1199 for Minneapolis/St. Paul. |
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| Southwest Airlines Boeing 737-8H4 (N8323C) airborne off 28R as SWA1637 for Sacramento. |
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| Learjet 60 (N29LJ) airborne off 28R. |
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| SkyWest Airlines (d/b/a Delta Connection) Embraer ERJ-170-200LL E-175LL/E-175SC (N270SY) airborne off 28R as SKW3511 for Los Angeles. |
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| Southwest Airlines Boeing 737-7H4 (N931WN) taxiing to the gate after arriving on 28R as SWA1137 from Denver. |
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| Frontier Airlines Airbus A320-251N (N309FR) "Weston the Woodpecker" arriving on 28R as FFT791 from Denver. |
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| Kalitta Air Boeing 767-3P6/ER/BDSF (N764CK) arriving on 28L as CKS1917 from Seattle-Tacoma. My first time photographing Kalitta Air! On Sundays, Kalitta Air does a west coast run on the behalf of DHL doing a Los Angeles-Seattle-Portland-Los Angeles run. On weekdays, Kalitta bypasses Portland and does a Los Angeles-Seattle-Vancouver-Seattle-Los Angeles run. |
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| Airframe first delivered in May 1994 as A4O-GY for Gulf Air. It then flew for Transaero Airlines as EI-UNB from January 2008 until the Russian carrier ceased operations in 2015. Kalitta Air took possession of the airframe in January 2017 and had it converted for cargo in Mexico City a year later; conversion was completed in June 2018. |
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| United Airlines Boeing 737-924/ER (N75432) in the Eco-skies livery taxiing for departure as UAL390 for San Francisco. |
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| UAL390 departing on 28R for San Francisco. |
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| Boutique Air Pilatus PC-12/45 (N111WG) airborne off 28R as BTQ352 for Pendleton. |
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| Spirit Airlines Airbus A320-232 (N608NK) taxiing for departure as NKS2806 for Las Vegas. |
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| NKS2806 airborne off 28R for Las Vegas. |
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| American Airlines Airbus A319-112 (N767UW) taxiing for departure as AAL2298 for Chicago O'Hare. |
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| AAL2298 departing on 28L for Chicago O'Hare. |
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| Delta Air Lines Boeing 757-351 (N595NW) taxiing for departure as DAL503 for Atlanta. It certainly has been a while since I last saw a 757-300! |
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| DAL503 airborne off 28R for Atlanta. |
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| Sun Country Airlines Boeing 737-83N (N831SY) arriving on 28R as SCX293 from Minneapolis/St. Paul. My first time seeing the newest livery by Sun Country Airlines! |
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| Previously registered as N860AM with Aeromexico. |
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| Sun Country unveiled this livery in mid-2018 after conducting a vote among its employees. While it is a bold and visually appealing livery, many have referred to this color scheme as the airline's "Tide Pods" livery, which was an unfortunate coincidence because the livery colors are the same as Tide's laundry detergent pods that became the center of an Internet meme, which involves a dare to intentionally consume the pods known as the "Tide Pods Challenge" from late-2017 to mid-2018. |
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| Frontier Airlines Airbus A320-251N (N335FR) "Jo Jo the Grizzly Bear" arriving on 28R as FFT2171 from Las Vegas. |
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| Jazz Air (d/b/a Air Canada Express) Bombardier DHC-8-402 Dash 8 Q400 (C-GJZN) airborne off 28R as JZA8120 for Vancouver. Air Canada resumed flying between Portland and Vancouver earlier this month. While the border between the U.S. and Canada is still closed to normal travel due to COVID-19 restrictions, these flights are in place to transport essential workers. Either way, it's nice to see some Canadian presence in PDX after a five month absence. |
