Penang Planespotting #009 - 17 September 2016 - Part 3

Goodness it is April already??

Let's move on. Lots of narrowbodies.

9M-AQI rolling down the runway

Malindo B737-9GP(ER) (9M-LNK)

And come the FedEx.

FedEx B767-3S2F(ER) (N115FE)

Close-up of the thrust reverser

Malindo ATR72-600 (9M-LMM)

AirAsia A320-216 (9M-AJS)

AirAsia A320-216 (9M-AJH)

Here's a comparison with your average petrol tanker.

Fueling up for the flight

Tigerair A320-232 (9V-TAF)

Malaysia Airlines B737-8FZ (9M-MLK)

LNK lining up from Taxiway Bravo

No more visits by the 735. All 738s now from Sriwijaya.

Sriwijaya Air B737-86N (PK-CLA)

Will have one last session before sharing about LIMA 2017.

Penang Planespotting #009 - 17 September 2016 - Part 1

Continuing from Session #008. This session will have many many many parts.

Starting off, we have Malindo

Malindo ATR72-600 (9M-LMO)

Then we have the two morning international flights. One to Thailand and the other to Hong Kong though the latter had to wait for an arrival.

Thai Smile A320-232 (HS-TXS)

AirAsia A320-216 (9M-AJX)

We have biologicals too. Here we have a stork coming in for landing on the parallel waterway (river).

Stork (A-BIRD)

Dragonair A330-343 (B-HWM)

Firefly ATR72-500 (9M-FYD)

Rubber burning. This one's from Hong Kong. They will usually arrive in the morning and depart later in the evening.

Air HongKong A300F4-605R (B-LDF)

AJX departing from Bravo

LDF taxiing to the cargo apron

It is really great to have high AirAsia traffic into Penang. For one, you get to see new jets like the A320NEO. You also get the special schemed ones. This new one bears the "AirAsia Foundation" livery.

AirAsia A320-216 (9M-AQI)

FYD Departing

More in the upcoming posts

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Penang Planespotting #008 - 31 August 2016 - Part 1

Afternoon is the time where one doesn't usually go spotting due to the scorching heat. But sometimes, there is just this little itch to go spotting. Afternoon sessions usually see aircraft using Runway 22 for operations. All narrowbodies this round.

AirAsia A320-214 (9M-AFE) - ASEAN Basketball League livery

SilkAir A319-133 (9V-SBG)

Malaysia Airlines B737-8H6 (9M-MXK)

AirAsia A320-216 (9M-AJS)

Malindo B737-8GP (9M-LNS)

Sometimes, you might be lucky enough to get one rotating in full view.

AirAsia A320-216 (9M-AQI) - AirAsia Foundation livery

Malindo Air ATR72-600 (9M-LMS)

Part 2 to include more narrowbodies.

Penang Planespotting #002 - 16 April 2016 Part 1

It has been a long time since the Penang Planespotting #xxx was published. Time to continue the series.

Throughout the past few days, there have been rather weird movements of incoming aircraft around Penang airport. The one the caught my eye was this FedEx that was circling the Northern end of Penang Island before landing on runway 22. 

A few days later, I managed to catch a glimpse of Korean Air Cargo coming in low, also using runway 22 (coming in from the North). So this was my target. Getting the touchdown moment of the Korean Air Cargo 747.

It landed at 7am that morning, too early for any good photo capture anyway. 

Airbus Standoff

There seemed to be some maintenance work being carried out on Taxiway Alpha, just around the point of the acute turn of the High Speed Taxiway. This mandated all widebodies (those bigger than A320s / B737s) to land from runway 22 to allow them easy access to the terminal. Narrowbodies could land on runway 04 (from the South), but had to make a U-turn, and backtrack along the length of the runway. Lots of aircraft had to made several circles before landing.

After the AirAsia cleared the runway, it was time for Dragonair to depart.

Dragonair A330-343 (B-LBD)

Thai Airways A320-232 (HS-TXB)

Many aircraft had to wait for their turn to takeoff due to the runway maintenance. You'd usually get an aircraft or two holding short of the runway. But during this time, you could see up to 4 aircraft waiting. This one came in on 22.

Air HongKong A300F4-605R (B-LDE)

The next one got my by surprise. Looks like this one had been used for cloud seeding operations at other places before. Could be the one that participated in the Cloud Seeding operation around Penang.

Cessna 340A (N98560)

AirAsia A320-216 (9M-AQI)

The next one shows one of the aircraft making a nice U-Turn on the runway. They will slow down along the runway until the High-Speed Taxiway exit, before making the turn. Some turned left, some turned right. Either way, they had to backtrack along the runway until the terminal taxiway.

Malindo B737-8GP (9M-LNQ)

Usual operations will see some ATRs and A320s with Sharklets turn onto the runway about a quarter down the runway. But due to the need for other narrowbodies to use it to access the apron, they needed to go all the way to the end.

Malindo Air ATR72-600 (9M-LMK)

These two cargo aircraft came back-to-back. Great to see them so close.

FedEx MD-11F (N594FE)

FedEx B767-3S2F(ER) (N118FE)

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