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This page is last-updated on December 1, 1997.
Here is a collection of all new photos obtained recently.
Most of the photos are taken by Christopher Chan from HKG
and Andrew Hunt unless otherwise specified. Enjoy it.
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| Number of New Photos Added since December 1, 1997 is 11. |
Apart from photos below, Photo Express are those which appeared in HKG News before.
Latest photos:
Olympic Airways Falcon 900 SX-ECH
Pacific East Asia Cargo BAe146 RP-C481
Philippine Airlines A300B4 RP-C3005
Philippine Airlines B737-300 RP-C4007
Philippine Airlines B747-200 N742PR
Philippine Airlines B747-400 N752PR
Private Air SA B757-200 HB-IEE
The others are:
British Airways B747-400 G-BNLI City of Sheffield
British Airways B747-400 G-CIVM in new colors
Cathay Pacific A340-300 VR-HXA
Cathay Pacific B747-400F VR-HUH
Cathay Pacific B747-400F VR-HUH at HACTL
China Airlines A300B4 B-192 in old colors
China Eastern Airlines F-100 B-2239
KLM Royal Dutch Airlines B747-400 PH-BFT
Malaysia Airlines B777-200 9M-MRB
Mandarin Airlines B747SP N4522V
Northwest Airlines B747-200 N638US
More Air France and British Airways Concordes are shown below; G-BOAD and F-BVFF respectively. The most exciting one is the Air France Concorde seemed to crash into the cars driving past the airport!
The latest photo here is the British Airways Concorde G-BOAD.
Here are the photos of Lufthwaffe A310-300 10+21 and Saudia Gulfstream IV HZ-AFU:
The photo of the United States KC-137 58-6971 and US Navy Orion 149675 are as follows:
The latest photo here is the Germini Air Cargo's DC10.
Here are photos of China Southern's new family member A320-200 B-2345, Japan Air Charter DC10-40 JA8544 in Super Resort Express color and Singapore Airlines 50th Anniversary "Jubilee" B747-400 9V-SMZ.
The photo of the Transaero DC-10-30 on July 21, 1997, South African B747-200 ZS-SAM in new colors and British Airways B747-400 G-CIVM in new colors.
Two photos of Cathay Pacific B747-200 VR-HIB "The Spirit of Hong Kong 97" (taken before it changed its
registration to B-HIB) are as follows:
Luftwaffe A310-300 registered as 10+21 visited HKG during
the World Bank 1997 which was held in mid-September 1997.
The plane was a VIP flight. It was parking in the souther apron.
The picture was taken on September 20, 1997 in the morning.
The Olympic Airways Falcon 900 visited HKG two times in
1997, one during the handover and the other during the
World Bank. This one is a SX-ECH, photographed in late-June.
Pacific East Asia Cargo has daily cargo flights from Subic
Bay, arriving in the early morning and departing at night.
It uses BAe146 and this is one of their planes, RP-C481.
This picture was taken in April 1997.
Polar Air Cargo has a number of weekly flights into HKG,
nearly 7 weekly flights into HKG, all using B747 freighters.
This one is a N851FT, arriving HKG in the morning and was
photographed in July 1997.
Philippine Airlines usually uses A300B4s to fly between
HKG and Cebu. This A300B4, RP-C3005, was arriving from
Cebu in the morning. This photo was taken in late-June 1997.
Philippine Airlines seldom has B737s flying into
HKG. It usually has such B737s on additional
holiday flights or charter flights. This B737-300,
was photographed in March 1997.
Philippine Airlines now uses A330-300s, A340s, B747-400s,
B747-200s and MD11s to serve between HKG and Manila.
This one is a B747-200, N742PR, ready to depart for Manili,
waiting on the RWY13. This photo was taken in late-June 1997.
Philippine Airlines nearly has one B747-400 flying
into HKG every day. This one had just arrived from
Manila in the morning. The B747-400, N752PR, parked
outside HAECO for loading and unloading of passengers.
This photo was taken in July 1997.
PrivateAir SA B757-200? It is a Switzerland private
plane comany. It visited HKG on May 8, 1997 at
dusk. The aircraft was a B757-200 HB-IEE.
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Mandarin Airlines is the sister airline of China Airlines. It flies to
Japan Airlines DC10-40 JA8531 was departing HKG on RWY13. JAL
Japan Airlines MD11 JA8588 was arriving HKG on RWY13. JAL
KLM Royal Dutch Airlines has non-stop flights from Amsterdam,
Korean Air has A330-300s and B777-200s entered services
Korean Air started its B777 services in early 1997. It has
There are no more MD11 flying to HKG. All Korean Air's
Lufthansa has daily morning flights from Frankfurt, using B747-400.
Malaysia Airlines received its first B777-200 in June 1997. This
Northwest Airlines B747-200 N638US was arriving HKG using RWY13.
China Airlines has no more aircraft in old colors flying to HKG.
China Airlines B747-400 B-184 in new colors was turning for
China Eastern Airlines F100 landed successfully on RWY13!.
Cathay Pacific Cargo B747-400F VR-HUH was approaching
Cathay Pacific Cargo B747-400F VR-HUH was parking outside HACTL
Grandair started services to HKG in 1996, using A300s. It now
HKG Airport View in late-June 1997. There was a Cathay Pacific
HKG Airport View in early-July 1997. There were three freighters
HKG Airport View in early-July 1997. There were two freighters
HKG Airport View in mid-July 1997. There were two freighters
Air Canada A340-300 just arrived from Vancouver and was unloading
Air France B747-400 turned for its IGS approach on RWY13.
Air Lanka usually flew A340-300s to HKG from Columbo via Bangkok.
Air Mauritius has joint venture services with Cathay Pacific on the
Asiana B747-400 moved towards the HKG terminal building for parking.
This is not an ordinary Atlas Air B747-200. This one had something
British Airways in old colors, B747-400, G-BNLI, City of Sheffield, was
British Airways B747-400 in new colors! BA announced its new
Cathay Pacific A340-300 VR-HXA was moving towards holding
Cathay Pacific B747-400 turned for its final approach on RWY13.
Qatar Airways had no flights to HKG; yet it had
its conversion work at HAECO. It arrived HKG on
June 6, 1997 and had its conversion work at HAECO
till next month. The other photo, showing the aircraft
in white colors parking inside HAECO. The plane
was a B747SR A7-ABL.
HKG in China Airlines flight. This is one of the B747SP of Mandarin
Airlines. This photo was taken in mid-June, 1997.
also flies B747s and MD11s to HKG. This photo was taken in late-June 1997.
also flies B747s and DC10-40s to HKG. This photo was taken in late-June 1997.
arriving and departing HKG in the morning, using B747-400. This one,
was a B747-400 Combi, PH-BFT. This photo was taken in late-June 1997.
at the same perios, in 1997. This one, HL7551, was arriving from
Seoul in the morning. This photo was taken in early-July 1997.
weekly flights from Seoul using B777-200. Its B777s are
all fitted with Pratt and Witney turbofans. This B777-200,
HL7520, was taken in June 1997.
MD11 will be progressively converted to freighters MD11F.
This photo was taken in 1997 by Patrick.
Lufthansa Cargo also flies to HKG using B747F. This is one of its
B747-400s, D-ABVC. This photo was taken in late-June 1997.
B777 was seen in June 1997. It mainly flies regional routes, in addition
to some European destinitions. The B777-200, 9M-MHB, just flew
into HKG for its IGS approach. This photo was taken in June 1997.
Northwest flies B747-200s to HKG from Seattle and Tokyo Narita. It
has daily flights to Tokyo then US cities, together with 3 weekly flights
to St.Paul Minneapolis. This photo was taken in June 1997.
All aircraft into HKG are now in new colors. This aircraft, A300B4,
B-192 was one of the last aircraft in old colors to HKG. This photo
was taken in one of the evenings of May 1997.
its final approach to RWY13 from Taipei. Its B747-400, together
with the entire fleet fly to HKG on its frequent HKG-Taipei and
HKG-Kaohsiung route. This photo was taken in June 1997.
These are two successive shots on the landing of the China
Eastern F100. MU has daily flights from Shanghai, Hangzhou
Ningbo, Fuzhou etc. This photo was taken by Patrick in 1997.
and was clear to land RWY13. This plane will soon be in B-prefix.
This photo was taken in June 1997.
for unloading and loading of cargo. This plane will soon be in B-prefix.
This photo was taken in early-July 1997 from a high-rise building.
has daily flights from Manila. This A300, RP-C8883, was arriving
HKG from Manila and the photo was taken in late-June 1997.
B747-300 in old colors and a JAL B747-300 moving towards the runway.
Another JAL MD11 and a China Airlines A300 were parking outside the terminal.
parking outside HACTL for loading and unloading of cargo. This
includes Northwest Airlines B747-200F, JAL Cargo Super Logistics
B747-200F and Nippon Cargo Airlines B747-200F. This photo was
taken from a high-rise building near HKG.
parking outside HACTL for loading and unloading of cargo. This
includes FedEx MD11F and UPS B747F. They were both all-cargo
airlines serving HKG. This photo was taken from a high-rise building.
parking outside HACTL for loading and unloading of cargo. This
includes Air Hong Kong, the only cargo airline based in HKG, and
Lufthansa Cargo. This photo was taken from a high-rise building.
the passengers. AC provides 4 weekly flights from Vancouver using
A340-300, while before June 1997, it used B747-400s. This photo
was taken in mid-july from a high-rise building.
AF has daily flights from Paris CDG, all using B747-400s. AF
also has flights to Manila. This photo was taken in late-July 1997.
It seldom has L1011 Tristars to HKG nowadays, although it flew many
of them in the past years. This aircraft visited HKG on May 15, 1997
evening and the photo was taken on the same evening.
HKG-Mauritius route. The route uses Air Mauritius aircraft, B767-200ER,
two flights weekly. This one is one of the Air Mauritius B767s, 3B-NAK.
This photo was taken in early-July 1997.
Asiana uses B747-400 and B767-300ER to serve the HKG-Seoul route.
This B747-400, HL7418, was one of its all 400-series B747s.
This photo was taken in late-June 1997.
special. The "ATLAS AIR" wordings was in yellow color. The others
are not. The B747-200F, N509MC was parked outside HACTL for
for cargo handling. This photo was taken by Patrick.
approaching HKG on RWY13. BA has more than 14 flights weekly to HKG
from London Heathrow Terminal 4. It also has services to Manila and Taipei.
This photo was taken in late-June 1997.
livery in June 1997, with different tail patterns in every BA's aircraft.
This B747-400 is registered as G-CIVM. This photo was taken in July 1997.
point 13 and was ready to depart HKG using RWY13. This
A340-300 had not yet been re-registered as B- prefix; but now
it is B-HXA. This photo was taken in late-July 1997.
This photo was taken in June 1997.
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