[cactuswings 1866] LOG - Phoenix & Goodyear (June 2012)

SEA (6/6/2012)

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Sea-Tac was very quiet for my midday departure.

 

Horizon     DH4  N414QX  SDSU c/s, my first sighting

United      320  N491UA  #4291; light blue c/s

United      752          #5944; winglets; light blue c/s

United      772          #2992; CO c/s

 

…plus an Emirates 777-200LR and an Atlas 767 (I keep missing these lovely aircraft!).

 

 

PHX (6/6/2012)

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Great Lakes  BE1  N100UX

 

…plus another Great Lakes B.1900D that departed as we arrived.

 

 

GYR (6/8/2012)

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I took another quick trip out to Goodyear to see what had changed since my visit on 4/29 - as usual I was not disappointed!  There was only evidence of four remaining Malév 737-600s on this visit.

 

at hangar

Lucky Air     73G   B5292  full c/s

Malév         736   HALOE

Malév         736   HALOF

 

…plus a 737-700 in unidentified c/s (possibly masked for Lucky Air), a World MD-11, a Spanair MD-87 in full c/s, and others missed.

 

at scrapping ramp

                762   ZSSOF   scrapping underway

 

…plus an ANZ 747-400 (R-R engines, registration and NLG markings removed) well into scrapping, a Malév 737 with its fin removed, a United 737 (light blue c/s), an Air Australia A320, and a number of others missed.

 

on field

Malév            736  HALOJ

Mexicana         320  N567BB  was at hangar previously

United           733  N326UA  dark blue c/s

United           733  N377UA  light blue c/s

United           733  N378UA  light blue c/s

VarigLog         75F  N235WD  pride of place!

World            M11  N274WA

World            M11  N384WA

                 734  N773KR  ex-??? c/s

                 743          #SKY, ex-Corsair c/s

                 772  N321LF  ex-SIA c/s

                 M90  PKLIM   red nacelle c/s

 

…plus the DC-7, an ex-ANZ 747-400 (just like the one being scrapped), two ex-Air Seychelles 767s, two passenger World MD-11s, an ex-Southwest 737, an ex-American MD-80, an unidentified MD-80 with blue tail/nacelles, a 767 with VARIG titles, the Omni DC-10s, and others missed.

 

 

PHX (6/8/2012)

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US Airways Express   CRJ        #MJL, taped up, engineless

US Airways Express   CRJ        #MJJ, taped up, engineless

 

…plus one more CRJ at the Mesa hangar in an identical state to the two above.

SEA (6/8/2012)

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EVA Air         744  B16412

Icelandair      752  TFFIR

United          752  N596UA  winglets, CO c/s

TL

Tobias Lutterodt

"We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security." - Dwight Eisenhower