Houston March 2011

[StMaartenpiloot]

Some photos from me at this moment, more to come. At the moment I have a very bad internet connection and was only able to upload the following photos (cropped only, no software )

Last few days I have spent some time spotting at Hobby airport:

N822AE American Eagle

N285WN Southwest Airlines

N647SW Southwest Ailines

N135EV Delta Connection (ASA - Atlantic Southeast Airlines)

More to come shortly

[StMaartenpiloot]

Returned from Houston with a United 767-400 (N66052) this morning and finally able to upload photos from a good connection.

During the coming week I'll upload an impression of what I saw in Houston at Hobby and George Bush airport. Also some static photos from Ellington field and Nasa. As a photo registration spotter the two weeks I spent in Houston was enough because of the large number of Southwest and United (continental) aircraft.
Hobby also provided a large number of bizzjets, specially last weekend because of the final four (basketball) finals.

Today I'll start with a first impression from Saturday the 19th of March when I visited the old terminal museum with a mooney meeting, so first some small stuff


N222KR private


N1076N private


N201EQ private


N98JT private

[StMaartenpiloot]

Using my jetlag to post some more photos, these are a series of the normal size aircraft you can expext at William P. Hobby airport. A lot of Southwest and a fair amount of bizzjets followed by a few other carriers. The time I spent at the airport where just a few hours every other day.
Via houstonspotters.com you can find out which places to use for spotting. Photos from the right are made on runway 12R (landing) and from the left on runway 22 (take off)


N966AT AirTran


N994AT AirTran


N674CW private


N85TN private


N147SW Private


N640SW Southwest Airlines


N383SW Southwest Airlines

[StMaartenpiloot]

The next part of my trip was to visit Houston - George Bush Intercontinental (IAH / KIAH)

Before this trip I had contact with a scamble member who had been there before (thx USAIR cq Roy). He gave me some good information what to do and where to spot.
The best choice for my trip was to park on the 8th floor of the A+B terminal parking garage. From there you can see both sides of the terminal and see a lot of action. Most of the time I was there on the North side where taxiing aircraft and landing aircraft can be seen. The South side was a bit against the sun and the landing runway lies further away. (but the continental heavies taxi there)

When I landed I saw the atlas air at the cargo apron but to take photos there is impossible, but I was lucky enough to see it taxiing by for take of as the first airplane on the 25th of March.

I have here an interesting selection of my photos, the rest can be found (later) at my flickr page.


N322SG Atlas Air (SonAir)


N822AW US Airways


C-FTJZ Air Canada Jazz


N14168 ExpressJet Airlines


N27421+N37419 Continental Airlines


United / Continental


A6-EWG Emirates


N76054 United


N11539 Continental Express (ExpressJet Airlines)


Last to follow the day of the final four at Hobby (bizzjets and other)

[Sargo]

interesting traffic, thank you for showing Jens

[StMaartenpiloot]

Last batch from William P. Hobby for this post.


N228PK Private


N900W Private

Just arrived at the spotters place when this one left, too many heatwaves so I had to drive to rnw 22, banking left but still a decent shot

N926FR Frontier Airlines

Nice suprise

160633 USA - Navy


N714CB Southwest Airlines

One of the last photos I made that day

N352SW Southwest Airlines

I hope you enjoyed my photos, I made many more so visit flickr.com (link below) to see more in the near future:

[Boudewijn van Oirschot]

Niceeeee report