I spent some time on top of Haneda’s Terminal 3 at the end of February with my new D850 and the trusty D3s. Here are some of the results. Head over to Flickr to see the originals.
I finished the day looking over the northern runway.
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PEACH AVIATION‘s (MM/APJ) 7th Airbus A320-271N JA207P (msn 10670) arrived at Osaka (KIX) on 5-MAR-2022. As of 12-MAR-2022 it has yet to enter service.
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JAPAN AIRLINES (JL/JAL) have disposed of B737-846 JA326J (msn 35355). The aircraft has been painted white and reregistered as T7-304. It departed Tokyo (HND) on 5-MAR-2022. It ferried to Seoul (ICN) and then on to Almaty (ALA).
Last service with JAL was on 29-OCT-2021 as [JAL142] from Aomori (AOJ) to Tokyo (HND).
It was initially reported as being ex-JA324J (msn 35353) but as of today (10-MAR-2022) that aircraft is still at Haneda. It too is painted all white. Its last service with JAL was on 08-OCT-2021 as [JAL462] from Tokushima (TKS) to Tokyo (HND).
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Gulfstream G650 N871FR arrived shortly before lunchtime. It night-stopped and departed the following day.
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ALL NIPPON AIRWAYS (NH/ANA) have announced the launch of a new ‘lower cost’ airline. They will be rebranding their current AIR JAPAN operation and it will now be called AIRJAPAN. The new airline will use existing ANA B787-8s to operate medium-range international flights. You can read a bit more about it here.
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There were at least 3 Narita (NRT) diversions this morning. All 3 aircraft departed to Narita later in the day.
JA204P A320-251N PEACH [APJ311] from Osaka (KIX)
JA822J B787-8 ZIPAIR [TZP23] from Los Angeles (LAX)
VN-A523 A321-271NX VIETJETAIR [VJC932] from Hanoi (HAN)
Global 7500 VP-CSY departed. It’s not tracked on FR24 so I don’t know when it arrived or where it went.
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VISTAJET MALTA Global 6000 9H-VJM arrived from Hong Kong (HKG) this afternoon as [VJT850]. It stayed about an hour before departing to Teterboro (TEB).
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BD700 Global 5000 N95RS arrived from Singapore (XSP) and departed to Anchorage (ANC). The aircraft was only registered a couple of weeks ago. It’s msn 9241 and was previously VP-CDB.
I can’t find a photo of it wearing it’s new reg, so I’ve posted one of it as B-LRH which is another of its previous identities.
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TURKISH AIRLINES (TK/THY) operated an extra flight from Istanbul this evening. As well as the usual Dreamliner service (TC-LLB), Airbus A330-202 TC-JNC turned up as well as [THY3301]. It departed the following morning as [THY3302] to Djibouti (JIB).
No foreign biz that I know of other than an anonymous Global that was showing on FR24.
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VISTAJET MALTA (VJT) Challenger 605 9H-VFI arrived from Seoul (ICN) just before lunch and departed to Angeles City (CRK) about an hour later. It’s pictured above taxiing for departure.
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