It’s Sunday again, and it’s time to go into the archives for this week’s Airplane Art.
Inspired by a discussion over on Bluesky, this week we have a United Airlines Boeing 757-200 at San Francisco International Airport, shot in 2008.
United Airlines currently operates 59 Boeing 757 aircraft in its fleet – 40 757-200 and 19 757-300, which are used on both domestic and international routes, operating long and thin services.
The airline also operates the Airbus A319, Airbus A320, Airbus A321neo, Boeing 737-700, Boeing 737-800, Boeing 737-900, Boeing 737-900ER, Boeing 737-8 and Boeing 737-9 in its single-aisle fleet.
The aircraft depicted is N530UA in its classic “Battleship Grey” livery. It joined the United Airlines fleet in March 1991 and was parked in May 2014. The aircraft was converted into a freigher afrer being parked and picked up by Federal Express. It was re-registered and activated in September 2015 as N775FD.
It remains active in the FedEx fleet operating out of its Memphis home to Flint, Tulsa, Wichita, Knoxville and Indianapolis.
More Airplane Art next week!
Photogrpahers Notes:
- Camera: Canon 40D
- Lens: Cnaon EF70-200mm f/4L USM
- Settings: ISO100, 159mm, f7.1 at 1/500
- Shot at San Francisco International Airport
- Shot September 2008
- Reprocessed with Adobe Lightroom Classic 15.2 with current processes. It’s come out rather well, don’t you think?
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