Lunch goodies at IAD

Hi Guys,

Since my new office is 5 minutes away from IAD I've been going there everyday during my lunch hour to check stuff on the ramp. Here is what I've got so far during my first 4 visits :)
The weather sucks and they park those airplanes in the worst possible places, but what you gonna do? :)

Private - Monfort Aviation
Boeing 727-227/Adv
N17773
http://home.comcast.net/~tipek/n17773.jpg

Private - Hendrick Motorsports
Saab 2000
N509RH
http://home.comcast.net/~tipek/hmsaab2000.jpg

Private - Wynn Resorts
Boeing 737-79U BBJ
N88WR
http://home.comcast.net/~tipek/n88wrprivatebbj.jpg

Private - KEB Corp.
MD-87
N287KB
http://home.comcast.net/~tipek/md87private.jpg

Take care,
Rafal

I'm thinking about banning you fromt he site. Private MD80, Saab 2000. Who do you think you are!?!? haha

Killer stuff. I'd kill to get a shot of those birds.

Nice shots Rafal :),
Thats a nice line up there.
Those Saab 2000s are pretty rare in the US. I have only seen one a long time ago.
Senga

If you want Saab 2000s, just do NASCAR once. Senga, if you're in Central Florida now, all the teams are doing all of their pre-season testing at Daytona before the big race (President's Day weekend). Of the 6 (!) S2000s on the US register, Hendrick Racing owns 4, Joe Gibbs Racing owns 1, and the Department of Justice owns 1 for prisoner transport.

Today IAD ramp was jammed with large biz jets and I couldn't take single shot. First in line was Comco L3 B757-200, mixed with US Army B737, Private MD87 and private B737-400 in very cool white/green colors. There was also private Dornier 328Jet but also in ackward position for pictures.
Sometimes it pays to work so close to the airport :)

Phil - I'm slowly becoming Senga of Washington DC :)

Matt, so it means that I have 1/6th of N. America Saab 2000 fleet :)
This was my very first Saab 2000 caught in USA. But I have few from Europe, and I flown on one few years ago Crossair ZRH to KRK :)

Ok, enough about IAD. Saturday I'm driving to EWR to catch that damned LOT 763 in Star Alliance colors :) 11th time is a charm ;)

Rafal

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Originally Posted by tipek

Ok, enough about IAD. Saturday I'm driving to EWR to catch that damned LOT 763 in Star Alliance colors :) 11th time is a charm ;)

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Majority of the time I "luck-out" and see the SP-LPE at JFK, to make you more envious I even caught the SP-LPF . Anyway, it's already getting annoying seeing the same scheme all the time. But that's just me... Not to jinx myself, I need to catch it in good light though. I also flew PE to WAW. :mrgreen:

Great catches there, Rafal.

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Originally Posted by tipek

There was also private Dornier 328Jet but also in ackward position for pictures.

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Do you have the registration by any chance? N407FJ has been at Lafayette two or three times over the past few months for one reason or another, so I wouldn't be surprised if it found its way over to your neck of the woods, too.

Also, keep an eye out for King Air 200s N200PU, N300PU, and/or Beechjet 400 N400PU (the jet's in for a C-Check right now, though, but it's at IAD a lot). :)

Brian

The Do-Jets run a TEB-IAD shuttle during the week - I know the client used to be AOL Time Warner, and it may still be, but I can't say for certain. Today's was 328GT, although 419FJ and 328AC have also shown up at Dulles in the last couple of weeks.

The Purdue fleet are common visitors to IAD - offhand, maybe even the most common of all the college biz. The only other ones that I can think of that I would also call common would be the Penn State King Airs and the Kansas State C525.

I've got 2/3rds of the N-registered S2K fleet :) Of course, that's what you wind up with after 3 NASCAR at Richmond trips.

Here is one more from last week :)

http://home.comcast.net/~tipek/iadco733.jpg

Rafal

This week at IAD started with only Vision Air Boeing 737-400 N742VA. Maybe tomorrow weather will improve a little and some good stuff hit the tarmac :)
http://home.comcast.net/~tipek/n742va.jpg

Rafal

Nice shots Rafal. The white over grey on that 737 (N34315) looked familiar, from the shots on jp.net, I see it's an ex-CO bird.