KPIT Spotting

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DTW has one daily departure to KEF on Iceland Air @ 20:30 with the 737MAX and one daily departure on Delta @ 20:30 with the 757-200. They race each other every night

I could see Delta or United adding an additional flight like that on top of what we already have here. very unlikely, but would be fun to see. Ours arrives at 7:20pm and an 8:30 departure. I think we’re 5/6 days a week right now like I mentioned before.

 

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Ferrari of Fort Lauderdale? lol















And a non aviation related visitor to the spoting location with me today lol

 

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Special visitor this morning! Atlas 747-400 from Saudi Arabia





Lots of vapor and streamers this morning!








First time seeing this beaut!

 

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Haven’t posted in a little while but i’ve still been catching lots of cool stuff recently. Let’s start in chronological order. These first handful were from June 29.

Retro AA



Brand new jet coming through! FR24 marks it under a different aircraft currently


Won’t be seeing these much longer!


Now we’re onto the morning of July 4th!

I wish I had just a bit more room on this one! Maybe next time the stairs and private plane won’t be there



A bunch of our stationed C17s parked and quiet.

 

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The big July 4th visitor! An AirX Charters A340-300 chartered from Saudi Arabia. Presumably, carrying military personnel home from the middle east.







I didn’t catch anyone disembarking but it sat here on the ramp all night till the next day it left for newark.

Two special Southwests in one morning on the 5th!



A very shredded ain’t job on this E145XR


Amazon Plen

 

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Bradenton A320!


Another Southwest special crossed off my list, Arizona One!


A classic US Airways bird, second A319 delivered to them in the late 90s





G-ZBJB, the same as the 1:400 model I own from Gemini!



737-700BBJ that was parked at the ramp for a few days. He left recently for Zurich. You’ll see more of him later

 

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Two diversions from IAD on the 12th. the united turned back around about 3 hours sitting at the C gates but the Saudi sat on the ramp for hours, dealing with crew time outs and lots and lots of paper work to continue onwards.










The money shot with the united 777 taxing to 28L for departure to IAD


A group of 7 T6 Texan IIs from Florida were visiting that day as well. It was cool to see them so close as they were parked only feet from the fence!

 

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Another good money shot





More C17 content:




And a winglet-less UPS 763 for fun


I have a few more to go on the editing side of things but i’ll post them as I get to them. Enjoy all the recent shots!

 

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A bit visitor today from Dover AFB, a C5 Galaxy stopped by for a few hours this afternoon. It parked in a weird spot and didn’t get the nice golden hour light I really wanted but i’ll take what I can get




plus an extra-
N661DN, a 757-200 parked next to the C5 awaiting the Cincinnati Reds to finish their series against the Pirates

 

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A fun day out on Tuesday! I had the day off of work and went out to grab the Buccaneers coming to town for their preseason game vs the Steelers but while hanging around there were lots of C17 activity and still experimenting with new locations with 28R/10L now open again.

a Breeze A220 landing on 28R:



E175 arriving on 28R:



Wright Patterson C17 visiting amongst the other C17 chaos today, 2-3 others were arriving or doing touch and go’s around this time! Those were all PIT based C17s though.






One of PITs C17s doing a touch and go for the last time on 28L before doing a short base and final onto 28R.

 

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These are your best shots yet!!

 

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These are your best shots yet!!

Thank you! Only 3 months into this and I still feel like i’m improving every day.

Here are the photos of the Delta A330-300 carrying the bucs, along with the 319 carrying the stragglers right behind:

 

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Came out to grab my first A300 the other day. had to skip out on the BA flight, a frontier A321 and the evening Alaska flight for this guy but very worth it! This is a relatively “new”frame being delivered in 2004.



Thankfully, look who started doing laps right afterwards! Surprisingly this is the first 135 i’ve photographed even though they’re based here along with the C17s. Many more in my future I assume!