Had a few last minute things in the works, but they won't be coming together. 2025 saw 7 new aircraft, 11 new airlines, 15 new airports and 20 new lines. All of that added up to 40k miles across 40 flights and an awful lot of awesome memories. How's your year shaping up?

Aviation photo of the day: @flysea.bsky.social Terminal S at rush hour | 2017

Bonus aviation photo: RCAF CC-138 Twin Otter w/ skis | Yellowknife, NT | 2025

Aviation photo of the day: Bombardier CS-100 | Atlanta, GA | 2014

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Aviation photo of the day: American Airlines Boeing 757-200 | Los Angeles LAX, CA | 2012

aviation photo of the day: Turkish Airlines Boeing 777-300 | Paine Field, WA | 2011 (this was the 9th 777 for TK, they have 36 as of today)

Post a photo of an animal that looks Gen-AI but is 100% real. (One more) Harry the Skunk at the Seattle Art Museum, 2021

Post a photo of an animal that looks Gen-AI but is 100% real. Buddy the pharaoh eagle owl @woodlandparkzoo.bsky.social

Not that anyone asked, but I'd really recommend you avoid vertigo if possible. No fun for anyone.

Aviation photo of the day: Firefly ATR 72-600 | Singapore Changi | 2018

Lufthansa's Centennial B787 makes it first appearance in the PacNW, following a short test flight out of Paine Field. Quite the looker, IMO. Will be even better on a sunny day.

Aviation photo of the day: Virgin Atlantic Boeing 74-400 | Las Vegas, NV | 2016

Bonus aviation photos from what remains, 10+ years later, one of the wildest afternoons of planespotting to date. United Airways ATR 72, Bangladesh Air Force An-32, MiG-29, Chengdu F-7 (which had a super unique double-light afterburner that made a pop followed by a boom)

Aviation photo of the day: Delta Air Lines Boeing 737-800 | near Mt Rainier | 2025

aviation photo of the day: Alaska Airlines Airbus A320 | @flysea.bsky.social | 2021

aviation photo of the day: Korean Air Boeing 747-400 | Los Angeles LAX, CA | 2008

aviation photo of the day: Funjet Vacations Boeing 737-300 | St Louis, MO | 2007

Today's no particular reason aviation photo of the day: Virgin America Airbus A320 | Seattle-Tacoma, WA | 2014

“Analysis... has revealed that intense solar radiation may corrupt data critical to the functioning of flight controls. A significant number of A320 Family aircraft currently in-service which may be impacted.” Currently ~3,000 airborne A320 family aircraft. www.airbus.com/en/newsroom/...

Aviation photo of the day: Harbour Air dHC Otter | Vancouver Harbour Flight Centre, BC | 2025

Santa came a little early this year, after a super rare to the Americas Harbin Y-12 visited Vancouver YVR today. It is on the way to Chile, having begun its journey in Harbin, China 16 days ago (according to @flightradar24.com). Since then it's gone HRB>BQS>YKS>GDX>DYR>TLA>ANC>JNU> and now YVR. 1/

Godspeed to New Pacific, aka Northern Pacific, which finally ran out of reinventions. The airline has been a charter only operator since the spring of 2024, after calming it quits on short lived commercial service. 2/3rds of its 3-strong B757 fleet made the trek to the boneyard today.

Boooooooo

Two things can be true: You should not take off your shoes and put your feet on the chair ahead of you. The Secretary of Transportation is not a serious person

If any of our followers have heard from or know the whereabouts of longtime NYCA member and contributor Eric Dunetz, please reach out to us.

aviation photo of the day: jetBlue Airbus A321 | Vancouver YVR, BC | 2025

aviation photo of the day: Virgin Atlantic Airbus A340-600 | Los Angeles LAX, CA | 2012

Aviation photo of the day: SAS Boeing 737-600 | Oslo Gardermoen, Norway | 2017

Bonus aviation photo of the day: United Airlines Boeing 737-500 | Los Angeles LAX | 2008

aviation photo of the day: Pacific Coastal Airlines Beech 1900D | Vancouver YVR, BC | 2025

Aviation photo of the day: Private Let Aero Super Aero AE-45 | Puget Sound, WA | 2017

Looking to crowd source some new airplane adventures for 2026, especially ones that involve unusual aircraft. Only requirement is that it has to be scheduled, more or less. Charters and scenics don’t count. What’s out there, especially in North America?

aviation photo of the day: All Nippon Airways Boeing 777-200 | Tokyo Haneda | 2024

aviation photo of the day: Iberia Airbus A340-300 | Boston Logan, MA | 2009

aviation photo of the day: Emirates Boeing 777-300 | Paine Field, WA | 2015

aviation photo of the day: Korean Air Boeing 747-400 | Los Angeles LAX, CA | 2008

Barring any last minute changes, my year in flying is wrapping up unexpectedly early this year. Not a bad run, but crossing my fingers for that last minute change in plans

Crumby photo through a crumby B763 window, but still cool to see a few long retired Ethiopian Airlines DC3's in Addis, 2011. The carrier operated a post-War fleet of C47s and DC3s into the 1990s.

Vertigo sucks aviation photo of the day: Alaska Airlines Boeing 737-900 | Houston IAH, TX | 2019

Every few weeks we gotta make posts like this”call your dem reps to tell them to not vote to allow Lord Killdude to shove people into a volcano” and then the dem reps go “we’ve made an amazing deal where Lord Killdude can have his volcano so long as he promises not to shove people into it”

Bonus aviation photo of the day #4 Cargo B Boeing 747-400 | Paine Field, WA | 2009

Bonus aviation photo of the day #2 Aerolineas Argentinas Airbus A340-300 | Paine Field, WA | 2013 (the only known A340 appearance at PAE that I know of)

Bonus aviation photo of the day: EVA Air Boeing 777-300 | Seattle-Tacoma | 2017

aviation photo of the day: Asiana Airbus A350-900 | San Francisco SFO, CA | 2019

Was down for the count yesterday, so missed out on aviation photos of the day: Singapore Airlines Boeing 787-10 | Charleston, SC | 2018 Scoot Boeing 787-9 | Singapore Changi | 2018 KLM Boeing 747-400 | Amsterdam Schiphol | 2018

I'm legitimately confused about the play here. No person who now is going to go without coverage in the ACA is going to just blame the GOP. They will rightly blame the Democrats too. Dems won't get "points" for "fighting" if they cave. It makes little sense.

aviation photo of the day #3 UPS McDonnell Douglas MD-11F | Boeing Field, WA | 2010

aviation photo #2 of the day Western Global McDonnell Douglas MD-11F | Chicago O'Hare, IL | 2010

aviation photo of the day FedEx McDonnell Douglas MD-11F | Los Angeles LAX, CA | 2017