While helping Phil out with some of the photos, I ran across a certain plane and did not know what the registeration was. I tried to match the timing on Phil's camera with what the BTS website gave (ya I have way to much time on my hands hahaha but im dedicated like that :)) and saw the closest plane to match the time of departure with the camera was N499AA. So I looked it up to see if it was the same at airliners.net. I typed in N499AA and got a few pictures of it. Then I looked at the nose of the plane on the pics of a.net and saw it had a white nose cone, the one Phil had was Black. Phil was more recent. Looking back further I saw this switched a couple of times. I took the picture and tried to zoom in on it and saw 4XX. Still could not tell, so i IM'd Phil pointed it out to him and he indeed confirmed it was N499AA and we were wondering why the nose colors swtiched twice. It was BLACK in 2003, became white in 2004, and 2005. then When Phil captured it, it was black again. What is the reason for the constant switch? and is this through AA Maintenance as phil speculated?
Anyway thought this to be interesting and let me know if you know any info.
Alex
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