Withdrawn from use in 2011, subsequently flew for Biman Bangladesh (via lease from Air Atlanta Icelandic) as TF-AMY & then Saudi Arabian Airlines for Hajj purposes under the same reg before it was finally stored for good in March 2014

By 2011 Japan Airlines retired all of their 747s, ending four decades worth of operations

Non-stop action at Haneda on a stunningly beautiful winter morning as an ANA 767 rolls out on runway 34L and a JALExpress 737 begins its taxi with the increasingly-bustling international Terminal 3 in the background

What a pleasure to get to shoot the last flying civilian IL-18 outside of North Korea, seen here parked on the company ramp in Colombo

This classic seaplane, built in 1952, rests leisurely on the banks of the Colorado River on a lazy Sunday morning near Needles, California