1944 Grumman G-21A Goose, c/n B-101, CF-VFU, FIFT. Dockside somewhere up Knight Inlet, B.C., Canada in spring 1969.

[1959 Kodak Retina IIIS (Type 027) rangefinder 35-mm roll film camera, s/n 86125, with Schneider-Kreuznach Retina-Xenon 50-mm f/1.9 Synchro Compur lens, s/n 6841319; Kodak Plus-X Pan (ISO 125/22°) 36-exposure black & white negative film]


© Copyright photograph by Uwe Kündrunar Scharnberg, 1969 / Stephan Alexander Scharnberg, March 2011





“The whole history of the Canadian North can be divided into two periods—before and after the aeroplane.”
Hugh L. Keenleyside, Deputy Canadian Minister of Mines and Resources, October 1949




Thursday, May 3, 2012

1985 McDonnell Douglas MD-83, c/n 49385/1244, N429NV, “429”, Allegiant Air


1985 McDonnell Douglas MD-83, c/n 49385/1244, N429NV, “429”, Allegiant Air (Allegiant Travel Company), Enterprise, near Las Vegas, Nevada, USA; powered by two 21,000-lbs thrust Pratt & Whitney JT8D-219 low-bypass turbofan engines; crew of two (pilot and co-pilot), seating configuration Y166, medium-range, mid-size, narrow-body airliner; built by McDonnell Douglas Corporation, Douglas Aircraft Co. Division, Long Beach, California at Long Beach, California; built as MD-82; first flight on December 11, 1985; SE-DFT, Assur Viking, SAS—Scandinavian Airlines System, Stockholm-Bromma Airport (BMA), Stockholm, Sweden, seating configuration Y156, on December 20, 1985; SE-DFT, Spanair (Spanair SA), L’Hospitalet de Llobregat, near Barcelona, Catalunya, Spain on June 3, 1991, leased from SAS—Scandinavian Airlines System; SE-DFT, Assur Viking, SAS—Scandinavian Airlines System, Frösundavik, Solna, near Stockholm, seating configuration Y156, on October 1, 1991, returned; SE-DFT, Spanair, L’Hospitalet de Llobregat, near Barcelona, Catalunya on June 3, 1992, leased from SAS—Scandinavian Airlines System; SE-DFT, Nordic East Airways, Stockholm, seating configuration Y156, on November 29, 1992, leased from SAS—Scandinavian Airlines System; SE-DFT, Assur Viking, SAS—Scandinavian Airlines System, Frösundavik, Solna, near Stockholm, seating configuration Y156, on October 31, 1994, returned; LN-ROR, Assur Viking, SAS—Scandinavian Airlines System, Frösundavik, Solna, near Stockholm, seating configuration CY150, on December 13, 1999, re-registered; stored in April 2009; SE-DFT, Assur Viking, SAS—Scandinavian Airlines (SAS Scandinavian System AB), Frösundavik, Solna, near Stockholm, seating configuration CY150, on December 16, 2009, re-registered; ferried Oslo Airport, Gardermoen (OSL), Gardermoen, Ullensaker, Norway–Keflavík International Airport (KEF), Keflavík, Iceland–Bangor International Airport (BGR), Bangor, Maine–Kingman Airport (IGM), Mohave County, Arizona on March 10 & 11, 2010; delivered to Allegiant Air on March 16, 2010; converted to MD-83; N429NV, “429”, Allegiant Air, Enterprise, near Las Vegas, Nevada on November 15, 2010, re-certificated.

Flight 212 just arriving (late) from Bellingham, approaching Gate 5, Palm Springs International Airport (PSP), Palm Springs, California on Saturday, March 24, 2012 at 6:05 pm.


Our Flight 213, non-stop Palm Springs–Bellingham, scheduled 6:35 pm departure, 9:25 pm arrival, in the midst of refuelling while the checked baggage of Flight 212 is unloaded, Gate 5 at 6:19 pm.


Again, my wife and I were some of the last passengers to board as we were part of Open Seating. And again, we were fortunate to locate two seats together, row 18, myself in seat D and my wife in seat E. Cabin crew were one female Flight Attendant and three male Flight Attendants. We departed at 7:02 pm. The flight was uneventful.

[Casio Exilim EX-Z20 point-and-shoot 8.1 MP digital camera, 38–114-mm f/3.1–5.9 lens]

© Copyright photographs by Stephan Alexander Scharnberg, March 2012

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