• Aircraft:

  Boeing 747-4Q8

• Reg: G-VHOT full info | G-VHOT photos
• Serial #:

  26326

• Airline: Virgin Atlantic Airways
• Photo Date: May 27, 2007
• Uploaded: May 31, 2007
• San Francisco Int'l Airport - KSFO, USA - California

This is why-This is why-This is why I'm hot. At the time, I was excited about this shot as shots from the T2 AirTrain station were difficult with heat haze and obstructions. Or so I thought at the time. Construction since the photo date has made photography many times more difficult from this location, though the view is still great. Virgin Atlantic ended 747 service to SFO in November 2015 shortly before the airline ended all LHR 747 service.

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Aircraft

Scanned from a negative

Paul Denton G-VHOT

999 3 0 Boeing 747-4Q8

wanghaotian G-VHOT

764 1 0 Boeing 747-4Q8

Alessio Meneghetti G-VHOT

1,101 1 0 Boeing 747-4Q8

Photo location

atc1110 N852UA

114 1 0 Airbus A319-131

atc1110 N855UA

151 1 0 Airbus A319-131

SKDD N835UA

132 0 0 Airbus A319-131

Photographer

On short-final for runway 12R over Taft Lake after a short flight from MSP

Chasen Richardson N813AE

508 3 0 Embraer ERJ-140LR

One of the Atlas Air-operated Dreamlifters departing PAE for CHS in golden winter evening light, not long before 787 production moved entirely to CHS and these birds became much less common visitors to PAE

Chasen Richardson N780BA

1,768 11 0 Boeing 747-409(LCF)

Turning onto taxiway Uniform headed to runway 30 for departure to Kona in the early morning sunshine against the hills of the San Francisco Peninsula not long after Hawaiian resumed the KOA-OAK route which was suspended during the pandemic

Chasen Richardson N202HA

971 1 0 Airbus A321-271N