A Brief Stop in Cincinnati

 Last week, I had to go down to Toyota in Georgetown, Kentucky for a presentation on some quality issues.  It was a nice day as I was heading back, so I first stopped at the plane spotting park for the Cincinnati Airport.

The spotting park is in a pretty nice location.  It gives a pretty decent view of most of the runways (except for the one that is behind the buildings in this picture).  Sadly, I did not have my proper camera so all these pictures were taken with my cell phone but that proves the adage that the best camera is the one you have with you.  Unfortunately, I had to use the maximum zoom, so quite a bit of detail was lost.

This was a Kalitta Air 747 that was getting loaded for somewhere.

An American Airlines Airbus A320.  I'm not sure where this was coming in from because I can't really read the tail numbers but I do like the picture.

A 737 belonging to Amazon.  It was pretty cool to see some liveries that I don't normally see.

A hawk that was flying around near the park.

An United Airlines Embrear.

This Embrear belonged to American Airlines.

A Frontier Airlines plane coming in.  This had the Grizzly Bear on the tail.

This is an A330 that belongs to Amazon.

After the stop at the airport, I stopped at Devou Park.  I love the view of Cincinnati from here.  It was still a nice enough day.

I was able to catch a river barge as she sailed along the Ohio River.

Another view of the Cincinnati skyline.  Again, I wish I had my proper camera.

One more view of the river barge before moving on my way.

I apologize that I haven't done many updates to my blog lately.  It has been pretty cold lately and I haven't felt up to dealing with that.  I think it's supposed to start warming up again, so that will help.  

A Stop at Cinicinnati/Northern Kentucky Airport

I had an ulterior motive for visiting the Serpent Mound.  I've wanted to go down to the Cincinnati Airport for spotting for a while.  Even more so when I found out that they have a viewing area.

Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport (CVG) was opened in 1944 and was originally used as a site to train B-17 pilots.  The field was used by the Army Air Corps for a year.  The first commercial flight (an American Airlines DC-3) landed there in 1947.  It was shortly followed by a Delta flight.  In the 1980s, it became a Delta hub and was Delta's second largest hub until its merger with Northwest in 2008.

 With Delta leaving, CVG transformed into a cargo airport.  Currently it serves as an Amazon hub, as evidenced by this Prime Air 767.  It is also a major hub for DHL.   It is currently one of the busier cargo airports.  It will probably become busier as Amazon expands its operations there.

 There are still a number of passenger flights here, as evidenced by this American Airlines Embrear 145.

 And this American CRJ.

 A shot of that plane passing the tower.

 There are a couple of other cargo airlines that operate out of there as well.

 The viewing area is pretty nice but it's not great photography in the evening as you are shooting into the sun.

 I did get to see the Southwest Lone Star Livery though.  Unfortunately, it wasn't landing on the runway I was closest too.

One more shot before leaving.  I do like this viewing area but if I come again, I'll have to try it earlier in the day.