• Aircraft:

  Cessna 172N Skyhawk II

• Reg: N739NL photos
• Serial #:

  17270673

• Airline: Private
• Photo Date: Aug 08, 2008
• Uploaded: Sep 17, 2008
• Fort Huachuca/Sierra Vista - KFHU, USA - Arizona

Normally I wouldn't shoot an aircraft tied down on the ramp, but the backdrop at this airport was tempting. You can tell that the taixways and runways are elevated behind the GA ramp. That makes a challenge for spotting as approaching aircraft go below the hills, which are actually taxiways, as they near touchdown. However, spotting here is very interesting, and you can get pretty close to the action. Though the runway is angled away from the GA ramp, so while aircraft on final are easy to shoot, departures are not.

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SpotterPowwwiii N258AS

316 1 0 Embraer EMB-120ER Brasília

Libby Spotter N416AC

1,626 2 0 British Aerospace Avro RJ85

Libby Spotter N882CP

2,033 6 0 Cessna 182T Skylane

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

Chasen Richardson N813AE

504 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

961 1 0 Airbus A321-271N