Sky Harbor International Airport, Arizona |
The solar-powered Solar Impulse flew from San Francisco to Phoenix on Friday, May 3, 2013 on the first leg of its flight across the United States. It was placed on public display during its visit to Sky Harbor International Airport.
Business Aero Tupolev Tu-204-300A visited Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport on August 6, 2012. It departed at 11:25 AM on August 7.
While I waited for the arrivals and departures of the baseball charters at Sky Harbor, I photographed the comings an d goings of other airliners. The bulk of air traffic at Sky Harbor is single aisle, twin-engine airliners.
A pair of charter airliners came to Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport to take the Seattle Mariners and Oakland As baseball teams to Japan for exhibition games an March 22. 777-246ER JA705J Japan Airlines Flight JAL8808 broght the Mariners back to Sky Harbor on March 30. It returned to Narita, Japan as Flight JAL8007 later in the day.
I photographed morning departures from Sky Harbor on March 12, 2012 while I waited for the Boeing 787 to take-off.
Boeing 787-8 N787BX was the first 787 to visit Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport. It arrived from Mexico City on Friday, March 9 and departed for San Diego on Monday, March 12.
Christmas season brings a variety of air freighters that are not often seen at Phoenix Sky Harbor. The pictures below were taken on the mornings of December 22 and 23, 2011.
Most of the air traffic at Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport is single aisle twinjets of US Airways and Southwest Airlines. The only regularly scheduled 747 service to Phoenix Sky Harbor is British Airways 747-436 Flight 289 from London Heathrow. A few large freighters arrive each afternoon. For a few weeks around the Summer Solstice the afternoon sun shines from the north side of the runways.
The only regularly scheduled 747 service to Phoenix Sky Harbor is British Airways 747-436 Flight 289 from London Heathrow. During the winter it arrives after sunset, but with the change in time it is now arriving in the late afternoon.
Most of the air traffic at Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport is single aisle twinjets of US Airways and Southwest Airlines.
Christmas season brings a variety of air freighters that are not often seen at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport. Here's another selection of photos of airliners at Sky Harbor, taken on December 23, 2010.
Here's another selection of photos of airliners at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport, taken on December 2, 2010.
Here's another selection of photos of airliners at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport, taken on November 10, 2010.
Honeywell operates Boeing 757-225 N757HW as an engine testbed at Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport. I have photographed several of its test flights.
Honeywell Boeing 757 engine testbed at Phoenix Sky Harbor on November 11 2010: You can buy prints up to 10-2/3" by 16" or 5" x 7" greeting cards of this photograph.
Most of the air traffic at Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport is single aisle twinjets of US Airways and Southwest Airlines. Exceptions include British Airways 747-436s and Fedex DC-10s. The pictures on this display were taken on the afternoon of October 26, 2010
On Thursday, December 27 a flight plan was filed for Honeywell Boeing 720 N720H to fly from Williams-Gateway to Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport. It actually departed from Phoenix and activated its flight plan over Williams-Gateway. It was scheduled to depart at 9:50 AM MST and to return at 1:20 PM MST. I parked on the top of the Terminal 4 parking structure at 1:00 PM to wait for its return. As I waited, I photographed a number of the flights taking off and landing on Runway 26.
On Thursday, April 13, I parked on the south bank of the Salt River at the end of 40th Street to photograph the departures from Runway 07L at Sky Harbor International Airport until airport security called the local police to roust me.
On Wednesday, April 12, I stopped off at the terminal 2 parking garage at Sky Harbor to get some pictures of the right side of Honeywell's Boeing 720-051B, N720H engine testbed in the afternoon sun.
On Tuesday, April 11, I checked out several photography locations at Sky Harbor International Airport.
On Friday, April 7, I spent some time on the south bank of the Salt River at the end of 40th Street taking pictures of the airplanes at Sky Harbor International Airport.
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