Spotting at Sky Harbor PHX?

Agree, TUS is pretty good. Lots of interesting stuff to see parked around the airport too. For the L-1011 gang, the Flying Hospital is still parked here and you can darn near walk right up to it as its parked next to the fence.
 
MikeD said:
Agree, TUS is pretty good. Lots of interesting stuff to see parked around the airport too. For the L-1011 gang, the Flying Hospital is still parked here and you can darn near walk right up to it as its parked next to the fence.
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Along with a 727 that looks like it'll spend the rest of its days rotting in that same spot. I'd love to get close to the ever-changing cluster of RJs from around the world that seems to always be nearby the L-1011.
 
ChasenSFO said:
Along with a 727 that looks like it'll spend the rest of its days rotting in that same spot. I'd love to get close to the ever-changing cluster of RJs from around the world that seems to always be nearby the L-1011.
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There are a good number of Dash-8, Q400s, a few Dash-7s and bunch of RJs on the west side of the field at the former Lokheed facility, which I think Bombardier has now. All kinds from all sorts of places, and all in storage.
 
ChasenSFO said:
TUS is always interesting to spot at, I take a trip out there once or twice a year.
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MikeD said:
Agree, TUS is pretty good. Lots of interesting stuff to see parked around the airport too. For the L-1011 gang, the Flying Hospital is still parked here and you can darn near walk right up to it as its parked next to the fence.
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Are you guys on drugs???

I'm from Tucson. KTUS is boring and only good for a lot of RJ traffic and some F-16's and the occasional MD-80.

A far cry from the 80's and 90's. When it was 737/727/MD-80's/757's/A320's.
 
Maximillian_Jenius said:
Are you guys on drugs???

I'm from Tucson. KTUS is boring and only good for a lot of RJ traffic and some F-16's and the occasional MD-80.

A far cry from the 80's and 90's. When it was 737/727/MD-80's/757's/A320's.
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1) TUS gets a decent variety of airliners. MD-90s and MD-80s help their cause. Delta still flies 757s there seasonally to Atlanta. But besides that, TUS also gets a decent ammount of charters and cool biz jet stuff. Sierra Pacific 737-200s are there most times I visit, plus the General Electric/Rolls Royce 747-200 testing the 787 engine is in and out often. Throw in F-16s(both ANG and UAE), stuff coming to/from storage and the scrap yard, and all the stuff thats parked around the airport which is ever changing, and you get a cool place to watch airplanes. I really enjoy spending a day on my AZ trips exploring the airport every year.

2) I'm on a drug, its called Charlie Sheen. @MikeD is dosed up on MikeD, seems pretty intense, the rest of us probably couldn't handle it.
 
It goes like this. They get a decent amount of mainline RON's from every carrier. They'll all be gone before about 9am, but definitely afterwards. The rest of the day is mainly RJ's. AA and SWA are all mainline flights. Airways will bring down an A320 or similar occasionally throughout the day. But it's mostly Mesa flights. Of course that's going to all change now, with the merger. So TUS just shrunk further.
 
Max, you have to admit that TUS is more interesting than PHX at least. TUS still has some of the variety that @ChasenSFO mentioned. Even the cargo ramp has variety; albeit small vairety, but variety nonetheless.
 
MikeD said:
Max, you have to admit that TUS is more interesting than PHX at least. TUS still has some of the variety that @ChasenSFO mentioned. Even the cargo ramp has variety; albeit small vairety, but variety nonetheless.
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I would say that it's more diverse. But that airport is sleepy at best. And I hate how far it's slid, from the 80's to the 90's until today. Especially today. But I do really love the ANG traffic.
 
scooter2525 said:
On Facebook there is a page called "freight dog photography". He spots around PHX a fair amount.
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He says, "... 40th Street is a good location in the winter months, especially in the morning. If you take I-10 to 40th Street and take it north it will dead end right in front of the airport. Drive or walk up onto the dirt hill and spot away. I've never been bothered there by the authorities, and its a pretty well known location."
 
Maximillian_Jenius said:
I would say that it's more diverse. But that airport is sleepy at best. And I hate how far it's slid, from the 80's to the 90's until today. Especially today. But I do really love the ANG traffic.
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Do you remember in the '80s and '90s when there used to be all sorts of diverse aircraft parked on the northwest ramp of TUS? Convairs, a Stratocruiser KC-97 that hauled fish in Mexico, a former NASA Gulfstream I, the company that flew Vickers Viscounts for celebrities on the NE side of the field next to the ANG. All sorts of cool stuff.
 
LAS has a great spotting area right next to 25L. There's a good mix of everything once you ensure the 2 dozen SWA flights in between.
 
I don't know, when I was last there in August, in the 2 hours we waited in the terminal before a 5.5 hour delay on our Mesa fight to PHX warrented a rental car, I saw a decent variety of stuff. Alaska 737-900ER, Delta MD-90, American MD-80, some Southwest Special liveries, Skywest RJs(UA, DL, US), Mesa RJs, FedEx and UPS arrivals, a couple Mexican biz jets with really cool liveries, and more F-16s then I could count. Most of those planes aren't all that exciting, but it is a variety compared to a hub. Better than the 6 hours I spent in PHX later that day with nothing but constant US Airways Airbuses and Southwest 737s boring me to tears so much I'd do something else and miss the cool stuff like British Airways landing at sunset.
 
MikeD said:
Do you remember in the '80s and '90s when there used to be all sorts of diverse aircraft parked on the northwest ramp of TUS? Convairs, a Stratocruiser KC-97 that hauled fish in Mexico, a former NASA Gulfstream I, the company that flew Vickers Viscounts for celebrities on the NE side of the field next to the ANG. All sorts of cool stuff.
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I was young, but my father traveled a lot. So I used to frequent the airport a bit. I even flew out of KTUS before it had Jetway's. I remember walking out to the plane... in the elements. So to answer your question, kinda. But they have a few pictures of KTUS from the early 80's. I wish that KTUS would return, but it's long dead.
 
Maximillian_Jenius said:
I was young, but my father traveled a lot. So I used to frequent the airport a bit. I even flew out of KTUS before it had Jetway's. I remember walking out to the plane... in the elements. So to answer your question, kinda. But they have a few pictures of KTUS from the early 80's. I wish that KTUS would return, but it's long dead.
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Damn you be ancient.
 
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