[cactuswings 4417] LOG - Phoenix Area (March 2022)

PHX (3/28/2022)
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There were a few of interest on arrival - then it was on to the rental car center which is not quite yet connected by the Sky Train (soon!).

Air Canada       321  CGIUE
Air Canada       321  CGJWI
Allegiant        320  N249NV  not at AZA?!
Ameriflight      EM2  N246AS  silver ex-ASA colors
Ameriflight      EM2  N257AS  silver ex-ASA colors
Ameriflight      EM2  N568SW
Contour          ER3  N16502  at Cutter Aviation
Delta            CS1          #8143
Hawaiian         332  N395HA  sick, pushed off stand
Mesa             734  N708DA  at Mesa hangar
United           7M8  N17262
                 319  DABCN   at Cutter Aviation

…plus 3x American Eagle CRJ700s on west ramps (with more close to Mesa's hangar), many more props & jets at the freight ramp including an A400, a JSX E1X5 at their terminal, and three aircraft at Honeywell (a 757, Emb 170, & Gulfstream).


AZA/IWA (3/28/2022)
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The long drive out to Mesa Gateway was not well rewarded but what was notable was how the land around the airport, especially arable land, was being turned into…warehouses.  The usual places of interest (Embraer's hangar, the fire ramp, the midfield area, and the Intel terminal) were devoid of anything.  My full log follows.

Allegiant     320  N225NV  taped up & engineless
Allegiant     320          #280
Allegiant     320  N288NV

…plus 2x CL415s.  Also seen on approach from my nearby hotel were two more Allegiant A320 family aircraft, a Swoop 737, and a ??? 737 Classic.  Relatively wild weather (rain, wind, thunder) meant that at least one of the Allegiants did a missed approach.


GYR (3/29/2022)
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This was my first visit here in about two years and the biggest change was…more development!  There was a new warehouse at the main entrance (whose parking lot greatly facilitated views of the scrapping compound), some residential/retail, and, at the NW corner of the field, massive land clearing for (hopefully not for spotters!) more warehouses?  Maybe it was because spring training, with Guardians & Reds facilities more or less at the airport, was in full swing but there were a LOT of police and no patience for my attempts to wipe up A319s (mainly) on the SE side of the airport…I didn't push my luck. In general Goodyear made up for everything the Williams Gateway wasn't, it was good to be back! I should add that there were a surprising number of duplicates to my March 2020 (pre-Covid) visit.

My full (and woefully incomplete!) log follows:

@scrapping compound
Interjet    320  N227AG
Spicejet    73H  N462AC  ex-Jet colors
            73H  MABMM   ex-Sriwijaya colors
            752  N726WN  ex-Aer Lingus colors

…plus a National 757 in a sorry state.


@maintenance
Interjet     321  N312MQ
Interjet     321  N575CG
Interjet     321  N823CG
TAM          320  N20MQ
United       73H          #0238
             320  EIGUH   all-white colors
             320  LZDBS   all-white colors
             320  N645AC
             320  N785AC  all-white colors

…plus an Air Astana 757, an ex-American 757, and a few others.
 

Close to baseball fields
Caribbean      73H  9YBGI
Citilink       320  PKGLA
Interjet       320  N202AC
Interjet       32X  N353CG
Red Wings      321  VPBRB
Southwest      73G  N552WN
Southwest      73G  N554WN
US Airways     752  N910AW
               319  N870UB  ex-Germania colors

…plus lots of ex-easyJet/Shaheen/China Southern/Sky A319s, another Caribbean 737, and more!


Farther along
Air Ivoire       319  TUTRC
Asiana           321  HL7703
Azur Air         332  FHTIC
Brussels         319  OOSSE
Interjet         320  VPCCV
Interjet         320  VPCCX
                 737  N901AS
                 75F  N607AM  all-white colors
                 772  N508BC  ex-Singapore colors
                 772  N519BC  ex-Singapore colors
                 772  N784BC  ex-Singapore colors
                 772  N749BC  ex-Singapore colors
                 772  N772BC  ex-Singapore colors
                 772  VPBKV   all-white colors, mispole?
                 773  VPBKU   all-white colors
                 319  N188AE
                 321  N983CM

…plus an ex-Alitalia 777, a LATAM 767-300ER, two TUI 767s, the long-lived trio (Corsair 747-300, American MD-80, and the DC-7), at least two United 767s, and more.  This is the area under heavy development with construction fences already making views more challenging.


@remote hangar
               75F  N224NZ

…plus various bizjets and an Osprey which I'd have loved to see takeoff (reference earlier comments about the presence).


PHX (3/29/2022)
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It was time to wrap up a too-short visit with a few more for the book.

Aeronaves TSM     CRJ  XAESA   a gem!
Air Canada        7M8          #523
American          321  N167AN  Medal of Honor colors
American Eagle    CR9  N245LR  #CYE
Ameriflight       SWM  N422MA
Ameriflight       SWM  N578AF
Delta             CS1  N143DU  apparently a regular
Hawaiian          332  N385HA
JSX               EM3  N266JX

 
TL
Tobias Lutterodt

"Serenity now!" - Frank Costanza

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