My plane-spotting photos from Auckland International

Today I happened to be the in the Auckland International Airport area and pulled over in a lay by at the side of the road, very close to the end of the active runway, to take a few photos. The airport was extreamly busy this Tuesday afternoon with a take off and landing every minute or so, with a huge varity of different aircraft. Afterwards, I went into the terminal up to the viewing deck and took a few closer up shots of the apron. I have a whole camera full of photos but instead of posting all of them here, I thought I would just post a few of my best shots. (Please excuse the quality of a few of the pics below as some of them are resized screenshots from vidoes. I will make a collection of the vidoes and save it as a WMV file, and post a link to it here later on.)


Aerolineas Argentinas Airbus A340 on finals, a regular visitor which I often see low over my house


Aerolineas Argentinas Airbus A340 at the gate, unloading its cargo with an Emirates 767 just visible in the background


Emerites Boeing 777 on finals, only recently have they started flying to NZ, via Australia


Qantas Boeing 737, on finals. It’s not until you see them close up that you realize how small they are (Notice it's ZK registration)


Qantas Boeing 767, taxing to the gate, with it’s "Spirit of Australia" clone taking off behind it in the background


Thai Airbus A340, I have never seen one of these before and I never knew that Thai had repainted there fleet


Polynesian Blue Boeing 737-NG, I never knew this company existed, let alone flew out of Auckland


Pacific Blue Boeing 737-NG, parked at the terminal and just loading the luggage ready to depart to Austrailia


Jean Batten’s Percival Gull, hanging above the duty free shopping area, this aircraft set the record for the longest flight ever from New Zealand to England in 1936



Air New Zealand Link Beech 1900D, one of sixteen that fly short domestic routes round the country


Air New Zealand Link Saab 340A, ten of these also fly short hops around the country.


Air New Zealand Boeing 747, parked in the maintenance base and covered in scaffolding (Notice the tiny piper to the left)


Air New Zealand Boeing 767, on finals and very noisy.


Air New Zealand Boeing 747, I had waited to see one of these flying all day long, but didn’t see one till I was on the way home and took this shot of the car window.

Apart from these airlines, I saw many more including Eva Air, Singapore Airlines, Malaysian Airlines, DHL Couier, Origin Pacific and a RNZAF 757. I also saw some smaller Cessnas, Britten Norman Islanders, ATR's, a Convair 580, and a MD-80 plus many more I can't remember!

I hope you like my photos, could anyone suggest a aviation site I could upload the rest too?

Cheers

There sure is a great variety of airlines and type of aircraft that they fly.
I wouldn't expect that in a small country such as yours.
No offence meant.

It is the holiday season.

u can post the rest on airliners.net they offer thousands of airline photos from all over the word

Wow - great pics cheeky t - i like them all - very good pics!

Great photos. I particularly like the New Zealand 747 in flight.

May I copy it to my computer.

Regards

George

Yeah it is quite suprising what we get here in New Zealand - you name it (the plane) and I will just about assure you that it comes here. Just for a quick example of Air NZ flights, there are 4 744's departing to LAX every day.

Cheekytrolly: I love your shots, I was there on Monday and I too waited a long time to see a 747, having to wait until we had parked at the Manakau shops to see one! I'll see if I can put in some of mine that may be of interest to add to the thread.

P.S. The second to last shot looks very much like a 777 to me.

Hey,nice pics!
I like 'em alot.plane spotting is a good thing to do if your're near an airport.I did that one at frankfurt international as i lived there.

Here it is: http://www.myfilehut.com/userfiles/44150/Auckland%20Plane%20Spotting%20.wmv

Haha, it's true. NZ is the country furthest away from all the rest of the world, and thats why there are so many airlines travelling here. It's also a great touriest destination as well, so I guess that's why there are so many different planes + Auckland is the main airport for the whole country. (And no was offence taken RM. )

Sure you can, no need to ask my permission mate, these pics arn't copy righted or anything

Thats exactly where I was, I dropped my mum off to go shopping, then went down the end of Puhiri Road (2 roads away from the Westfield) to take some pics. If you're ever up in the area again, PM me and bring your scanner along!

I thought it might be, but I can't really tell the differnece between a 777 or a 767, is there any thing that define them apart?

Yeah in case it wasn't the exact shopping centre, it was the one that has the Telecome cellphone store in the middle of the carpark, I think it may be called the Manakau supercentre, it has that big digital clock thing that doesn't really work in the middle of it.

the front of a 77 is different, i think it's quite destinctive. whereas the 767 has an 'ugly face' like the 757

Oops forgot to log in PH here....777 has more wheels on the main landing gear that is the easy wat to tell the 77 apart from the 77....however when the gear is up it is a little harder but when you put them side by side it is easy!

very nicr mate gj!

Yeah I can tell the difference because it looks a little longer, also the general shape of the airframe and the landing gear, a very distinctive give-away is by looking to the rear of the plane where the horizontal stabiliser joins up with the fuselage, it appers to have a massive dent in there, dont know why they all have those though?

Thanks for the info guys, I'm pretty sure it was a 777 then, sorry for the mistake! BTW, I just saw an Emerites 777 fly over that has a red belly How Bizzare!

Has anyone actually watched that video I uploaded??? You should check it out here: http://www.myfilehut.com/userfiles/44150/Auckland%20Plane%20Spotting%20.wmv

Hey everyone,
If you liked these pics above, you will love the new set I took when I was down at the International Airport again today. I have uploaded 8 new images in this thread here:

http://flyawaysimulation.com/forum/topic/11113/new-more-plane-spotting-photos-from-auckland-international/

Installment #3 of plane spotting of some new plane-spotting I took today can be seen here:
http://flyawaysimulation.com/forum/topic/12504/3rd-installment-plane-spotting-photos-from-auckland-nz/

To everyone who enjoyed these photos,

I have just uploaded 6 more planespotting photos from NZAA here: http://flyawaysimulation.com/forum/topic/15701/some-new-planespotting-photos/

New shots here: http://flyawaysimulation.com/forum/topic/16252/my-best-planespotting-photos-by-far-new/

IMO they are the best I have ever done, as they are from a much closer perspective this time

awesome pics

New pics (June 2006): http://flyawaysimulation.com/forum/topic/16504/new-even-more-plane-spotting-photos-june-2006/

Check out my Latest and Greatest Planespotting Photos I took today here: http://flyawaysimulation.com/forum/topic/17163/latest-and-greatest-planespotting-photos-july-2006/