Washington DC (KDCA & KIAD) 9/8/13 - 9/13/13 (Whole Lotta Pix!)

[moose135]

After my NY visit, I spent the past week down in Washington for a business conference. I got over to National and Dulles a couple of times each, and this is a compilation of my shots from the week.

I got in Sunday afternoon, and after checking in, had a free little time, so I headed over to Gravelly Point Park at DCA. They were using Rwy 1, so departures were coming over the park.

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[moose135]

On Wednesday, I was back out to DCA, this time they were landing Rwy 19, so arrivals were coming over Gravelly Point.

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[moose135]

Thursday morning, I headed out to Dulles, which was on Rwy 19L/C/R. I stopped up on the parking deck facing Rwy 19C, and got there just in time to catch the Korean 777 arriving.

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Unfortunately, after that, it was a succession of regional jets in various United Express schemes...

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I did get to see a pair of Silver Airways' Saabs arrive.

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[moose135]

Friday was a doubleheader...DCA early, and IAD late.

National was back to Rwy 1 ops today, on a sunny, cool day. Well, it was mostly Rwy 1 ops - in addition to arrivals and departures on Rwy 1, they were sequencing in some arrivals onto Rwy 33, circling from the Rwy 1 approach. Here, you can see a Delta Connection (Republic) E-170 circling for Rwy 33 while an AA MD-82 departs Rwy 1.

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This came up out of the river at the park's boat ramp.

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[moose135]

I ran back out to IAD later in the afternoon, looking to catch the international departure push. After waiting out a ton of United Express RJs, finally had a Super depart Rwy 1R...

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KAC051 departing for London/Luton. They were on the ground about 90 minutes after a flight from SWF. Looking at FlightAware, they had been in the NY area this week, bouncing between JFK and SWF.

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First time I've seen a 748 in person.

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[Delta777LR]

Awesome shots Moose!!! I love the last KDCA shots there as well

[skyteam18]

Aw nice!!! Love that Saudi bank.

[Gerard]

Very nice!! When I was at Gravelly in early August they were departing Runway 1 when I got there then switched to arriving 19 before I left so I got the best of both!

[megatop412]

Great shots John, I like the Austrian departure with the clouds as well as the 748

[MarkLawrence]

Lovely shots John!!!...weather looked like it co-operated!!

[wunaladreamin]

Great shots Moose!

[Zee71]

Awesome and glad to see you had some free time for some spotting. Like that Saab

[torch]

Love the DCA shots, particularly the banking approach to 19. The cloud formation in the Austrian makes for a great image

[captmjk16]

Those are great shots Moose, some awesome angles and perfect light in there!