Category Archive: OPShots.net Photo Highlight

Photo: A blast from the past – YIP Executive Tours L-188 at CLE in 1982 – OPShots.net

Pictured in front of the historic pair of hangars that are now part of the Atlantic Aviation complex in August 1982, this is a very rare photo of this ill-fated Electra in these titles.  This Electra would be destroyed in a fiery crash outside Reno, Nevada five years later while flying for Galaxy Airlines.   – …

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Photo: Kalair’s 767-3P6/ER, VP-BKS, visits Columbus in advance of Irene – OPShots.net

Kalair moved its sole aircraft, a 767-300 (VP-BKS) from Newark International to Port Columbus airport in Ohio on August 26th, in advance of Hurricane Irene. The former Gulf Air aircraft can often be seen remotely parked at various east coast airports, but scant information is available about who owns it or what it is used …

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Photo: National Airlines DC-8-71 visits Hopkins – OPShots.net

Becoming scarcer everyday, it’s nice to see a DC-8 of any sort these days, and this nicely painted DC-8-71 of National Airlines graced the cargo ramp for several recently. Once with United Airlines as a -61 model, the same aircraft was caught in a similar pose by the same photographer at the same airport thirty …

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Photo: Restored B-29 “FIFI” graces skies over Oshkosh

The Commemorative Air Force’s beautifully restored B-29 “FIFI” once again is thrilling audiences around the country, and was caught in this nice pose by Andrew Jones while at AirVenture 2011 in Oshkosh.

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