New York-LaGuardia (LGA) Daily Notable Visitors Report 2010-2011

14 Feb

SWA's Maryland One, N214WN is spending the night and departing tomorrow as SWA65 at 0730.

Trump just made a very nice landing on runway 4 and is back home. Great to see it finally land from the tower.
http://flightaware.com/live/flight/VPBDJ

727s still rule :D

They always will. Three engines tail mounted and a wing that comes apart in so many way that transformers are left saying...."WTF?" I love that airplane. It is a shame I was born about a decade late. I'd loved to have at least sad sideways in those things.

US Airways Star Alliance A319 just took off runway 4.

AirTran Baltimore Ravens 717 took of runway 4 about 30 minutes ago.

JetBlue's new scheme just arrived on runway 22 as JBU376 from FLL...

06 April

1330L
what may be an airport first, there is an Embraer Phenom 100 parked at 5 towers. pix later...
1405L
N610DL taxiied in, scheduled to push off the gate around 1500.
1505L
DAL 767-300 just landed, N177DL.

What is the tail number on the Phenom?

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Originally Posted by cancidas

06 April

1330L
what may be an airport first, there is an Embraer Phenom 100 parked at 5 towers. pix later...
1405L
N610DL taxiied in, scheduled to push off the gate around 1500.
1505L
DAL 767-300 just landed, N177DL.

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Also AA brought in a 763 this morning

07 April

One of my bosses just e-mailed me at home to say he just saw this takeoff, getting rarer at LGA

http://flightaware.com/live/flight/DAL1503

That flight is normally an MD-88, hell of an upgrade !

Here is the inbound

http://flightaware.com/live/flight/DAL9923

Probably the largest aircraft to do a ferry flight JFK-LGA since the DC-10/L-1011 days !

Cheers

LGA777

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Originally Posted by LGA777

07 April

One of my bosses just e-mailed me at home to say he just saw this takeoff, getting rarer at LGA

http://flightaware.com/live/flight/DAL1503

That flight is normally an MD-88, hell of an upgrade !

Here is the inbound

http://flightaware.com/live/flight/DAL9923

Probably the largest aircraft to do a ferry flight JFK-LGA since the DC-10/L-1011 days !

Cheers

LGA777

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caught a quick glance of it driving up from the grand central, then went back to paying attention to the lovely lady seated next to me.

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Originally Posted by cancidas

caught a quick glance of it driving up from the grand central, then went back to paying attention to the lovely lady seated next to me.

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Blow-up dolls don't count, Matt! :lol:

08 April

1807L

Nice surprise today when a Sky King 737-200 departed 13 for MCI.

http://flightaware.com/live/flight/SGB5001

US years ago operated the -200 LGA-MCI and I can confirm from experiance it is really pushing the range of the old girl !

Cheers

LGA777

10 April

1500L

3 Interesting visitors all within about 10 mins.

1st Allegiant MD-87 N948MA departed to take another load of gamblers to Tunica, Mississippi.

Then this unique schemed Hawker HS-125 N843B arrived from OXC

http://photos.vox.flightaware.com/ph...51870178f5e0c4Photo Courtesy of FlightAware.com

Followed by the departure of LearJet N145GM to her home base of CMH also sporting a (me thinks) pretty cool scheme.

http://photos.vox.flightaware.com/ph...bb6f6a24515fecPhoto Courtesy of FlightAware.com

Cheers

LGA777

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Originally Posted by LGA777

Then this unique schemed Hawker HS-125 N843B arrived from OXC

http://photos.vox.flightaware.com/ph...51870178f5e0c4Photo Courtesy of FlightAware.com

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Great, they painted the jaggies on it for us! :wink:
Thanks for the update, Ron.

11 April

1800L

Kind of a unique sight, Delta's delayed 1700 ATL departure and their 1800 taxied out 1 behind the other past the office, both where 757's with winglets in the old livery, what are the chances? N658DL and N660DL, wingletted new colors 757 N648DL passed them in the opposite direction. About 15 mins prior the Mets departed to DEN on N398DA, 737-832 winglets, new colors, they are actually pretty rare.

Cheers

LGA777

Allegiant Air MD-87 came to (and left) LGA today, anyone know why they are in town?

http://flightaware.com/live/flight/AAY7 ... /KLGA/KLBE

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Originally Posted by N221UA

Allegiant Air MD-87 came to (and left) LGA today, anyone know why they are in town?

http://flightaware.com/live/flight/AAY7 ... /KLGA/KLBE

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Hmmm, looks like they use that flight # for random charters.

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Originally Posted by N221UA

Allegiant Air MD-87 came to (and left) LGA today, anyone know why they are in town?

http://flightaware.com/live/flight/AAY7 ... /KLGA/KLBE

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Allegiant brings their MD-87's in very regularly now, in the last 6 months probably seen them 10-12 times. They fly Public Charters to Tunica, Miss, just SW of Memphis where multiple casino's are located. Usually they ferrry in from somewhere, go to UTA, (which they did Sunday and is posted a few posts prior to your question) then return the same gamblers to LGA 2 or 3 days later, here is today's inbound.

http://flightaware.com/live/flight/AAY7131

Then they ferry out, often to PHL, today it was LBE, from their another load of gamblers usually get picked up for Tunica.

They are ground handled in LGA by CO, and park on their gates.

Cheers

LGA777

Good to know, I guess they aren't as rare as I thought they are :)

April 15

1700L

I noticed an all white 757 turning final to 31, ended up being N757SS, the Texas Rangers 757 making it's once or twice a year visit.

http://flightaware.com/live/flight/N757SS

They play the Yankee's the next 3 days, the final game in the series is Sunday at 1300 so they will probably depart LGA between 1730-1830 Sunday.

Also about half an hour prior the AirTran Atlanta Falcons 717 paid a visit.

Cheers

LGA777

Saw AirTran's Orlando Magic special scheme in the queue for a Runway 4 departure.

April 30

1725L

Highlight of the week for me when my favorite BBJ N888TY departed 13 for CLE.





Cheers

LGA777

May 2

1800L

Second LGA sighting on her second day in revenue service first Frontier (Republic) E-190 N174HQ

http://www.jetphotos.net/viewphoto.php?id=6834803

2000L

AirTran Baltimore Ravens 717 and Frontier's 319 N939FR with the 3 Penguins on the tail, my first sighting of this one.

N128DL, the 767-300 that went tech yesterday afternoon spent the whole day on Delta's Gate 2. It was observed a few hours ago with both engine cowlings removed and sitting on the ramp.

Cheers

LGA777

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Second LGA sighting on her second day in revenue service first Frontier (Republic) E-190 N174HQ

http://www.jetphotos.net/viewphoto.php?id=6834803

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I take THAT spot over a Frontier E190 on any day!

May 3

1715L

My first sighting at LGA of a Dash 8-Q400 when N721AL departed 31 for parts unknown. Did a little research, is registered to Aerographics of Manassas, Virginia, a suburb of Washington DC. I think it may be a govt operation as it was blocked on Passur, you never see private or corporate aircraft blocked on our work version. Also in one of the 2 photos on a.net it mentiones the aircraft parked at the National Guard base. It appearantly really gets around as it's 2 a.net photo's are from Seattle and San Juan PR. The only flightaware entry shows a recent nonstop from FLL to Manassas, pretty impressive for a Dash 8 !





1800

AirTran's Indy Colts schemed 717 departed 31 for ATL.

Cheers

LGA777

May 7

N891AT, Air Tran's Atlanta Falcons 717

May 8

1315L

My first sighting of CO's fairly new echo-skies 738. Boy those bright green winglets really stand out.



1535L

Trump's 727 departed 31 for LAX

1740L

AirTran's Indy Colt 717 departed 31 for ATL

Pretty pleasant day at the office !

Cheers

LGA777

May 9

A few goodies through out the day.

N918WN Southwest 737-700 "Illinois One"
N377AA AA 767-323ER Winglets
N11187 ERJ-145 Expressjet operating for UAX to IAD in full Expressjet scheme.
N26210 CO 737-824 in Star Alliance scheme, my 1st CO Star scheme sighting at LGA.
N946AT Airtran 717 Ravens scheme

Cheers

LGA777

May 15

1600L-1620L

Today during the above 20 mins would have been an awesome time to be at the Marina shooting Runway 31 arrivals.

Frontiers Brand new A-320 N207FR (Bison tail) arrived, no shots yet on a.net or JP

Republic's single E-190 N173HQ in a while generic scheme with Blue tail with Republic star logo shortly followed, even though been in
service around a month also no photo's on a.net or JP.

But first was this months highlight, and probably one of the top 5 of the year.



727-191 J2-KBA of the Djibouti Government (their Presidential Aircraft). For those like me not familiar with Djibouti it is a former French colony located between Somalia and Ethiopia. I did not see it in time for landing shots but did get a few so-so shots from the employee lot. Will post in a few days. Appeared to be only staying a few hours, Beautiful 3 holer !

Cheers

LGA777

US Airways Pittsburgh Steelers, JetBlue 10th Anniversary, AirTran Milwaukee Brewers, AirTran Orlando Magic, and best of all, Southwest Shamu all made appearances at LGA this afternoon. Photos coming soon in another thread.

There's a GV over by the five towers, N777KK belonging to Kholer with a pretty cool paint job.

C-FZUH, Air Canada retro A319 is here today, 5/29.

June 12

Airtran Atlanta Falcons B717

Air Canada B763 just landed. http://flightaware.com/live/flight/ACA722
Also Trump finally came home to LGA on Tuesday; first time since the Memorial Day weekend.

Yesterday I saw the Colts Airtran 712 plane go over my house but the only reason I knew it was coming was because my dad called and told me he was goin to be flying into LGA, so he would be going over are house. He is an Airtran Co-pilot for the 712. Here is a pic of him flying the plane over are house!http://i677.photobucket.com/albums/v...s/CSC_1724.jpg

Little Birdie told me the USAF 757 and N888TY were at the Five Towers today....

there are 4 USAF T-38s sitting on the exec ramp here at LGA. they arrived friday early afternoon, no word on departure time.

I finally visited LGA last week and saw a Midwest Airlines which I thought was commonplace. I now realize that Midwest is being phased-out and the bright blue livery is being re-painted by Frontier. My question is how long before there will be no Midwest livery anymore? Are there only a few airlines left or were only a few re-painted? I seldom visit LGA and was surprised to learn that the tail fin of Frontier has a different animal on almost each aircraft.