A new Airbus A321 passes over the eastern shore during flight testing the afternoon of DEC 9th 2025. Moving at 170 knots or 195 mph, the aircraft is captured at about 1,750 feet up as it prepares for landing at Brookley Field. Airbus is reported to have delivered 3,536 A321s as of the end of…
A US Air Force C-146A Dornier Wolfhound passes over Fairhope DEC 9th 2025 while doing training exercises. Wolfhounds are the military version of the Dornier 328 turboprop commuter airliner. They are used to transport US Special Operations Command teams and cargo. The aircraft are capable of short takeoffs and landings on rough airstrips, making them…
ππππ ππππ¨ π’π€π«ππ£π π€π«ππ§ π©ππ πππ¨π©ππ§π£ π¨ππ€π§π: Amazon Air flight 3106 passes directly over Fairhopeβs Kingfisher Seafood restaurant the afternoon of NOV 23rd 2025 while on a flight from Miami to Fort Worth. The Boeing 767 is captured 40,000 feet or about 7.5 miles up, moving at a ground speed of 400 knots or 460 mph…
An Allegiant Air Boeing 737 passes over Fairhope NOV 17th 2025 while finishing a flight from Northwest Arkansas National Airport to Gulf Shores. At a time when some commercial airlines are cutting routes and employees in an effort to survive, Allegiant Air is doing just the opposite, with Gulf Shores set to see some of…
A US Air Force Boeing C-40C Clipper passes over Sweetwater Branch in Fairhope late the morning of NOV 13th 2025 while on a flight that originated from Scott Air Force base outside St. Louis, MO. The Clipper is captured about one and a half miles up, moving at a ground speed of about 267 knots…
A US Coast Guard MH-65 Dolphin flies about 400 feet above the eastern shore the morning of NOV 12th 2025. Photo shot from Fairhope, less than half a mile awayβ¦
GlobalX Airlines flight 6141 passes over the Fairhope Recreation Center the afternoon of NOV 6th 2025 while on a flight from Harlingen, TX, to Jacksonville, FL. Captured at an altitude of 39,000 feet or 7.39 miles, the Airbus A321 moves at a ground speed of 494 knots or 568 mph during the roughly two hour…
Eagles and Poseidons… Photos by David Black
US Marines fly a Leonardo AW-119 βThrasherβ over the eastern Shore Monday, while Navy crews practice touch-and-go landings at Brookley Field in Mobile from aboard their Boeing P-8 Poseidon. The helicopters are based out of Naval Air Station Whiting Field, located near Milton, FL, while the Poseidons operate out of NAS Jacksonville, FLβ¦
Breeze Airways flight 401 passes over Fairhope’s Tatumville Gully late the morning of OCT 23rd 2025 while en route from New Orleans to Jacksonville. From an altitude of 25,000 feet or around 4.75 miles, the Airbus A220 moves at a ground speed of 445 knots or 512 mph during the one hour fifteen minute flight….