The 2003 Logbook

December 15th 2003
Only two days from the century of powered flight celebration, the forth spotter guide is released - Stockholm Airport, Arlanda.

November 17th 2003
Now it's done, first part of the redesigned Airports-section is now out. This section include three one page spotter guides for Amsterdam, Manchester and Oslo. Over time more spotter guides will be added. The section also contains articles from airports with spotting tips and reports from events at certain airports.

November 13th 2003
New aircraft manufacture added - Bombardier Aerospace - with page for Canadair Jet CRJ100 - CRJ900

October 15th 2003 - November 11th 2003
The retirement of the Concorde has been followed day by day on Aerospatiale-BAC Concorde page. The page contain photos from the last day of revenue service at Heathrow, technical data for the aircraft, the fleet an its status, and from yesterday - photos of G-BOAG arriving Boeing Field and the Museum of Flight.

September 24th 2003
New trip report added - LCC Norwegian to Stockholm, Arlanda and spotting at the airport.
During the last couple of weeks minor changes have been done to many of the aircraft pages.

August 20th 2003
The Saab section under Aircraft is now opened, and Saab 340 is their first out.

August 3rd 2003
A new report ready - the 60 year celebration of the Norwegian Dakota - airshow at Torp Airport. The next week or so it will be silent from me - I'm on vacation!

July 27th 2003
The Tupolev family has now been started - with Tu-204 first out.

July 23rd 2003
The McDonnell Douglas DC-10 page is now ready with the drawing of the first delivered DC-10-10 to United Airlines.

July 21st 2003
A new report added - Oslo Airport with only one runway in use.

July 7th 2003
Changes have been done to the Airlines-section - now two airlines are included.

July 6th 2003
As yesterday, a new Airbus sub page is ready - the A310. You'll find it under Aircraft - Airbus-section.

July 5th 2003
Another Airbus page is now ready - the A300. You'll find it under Aircraft - Airbus-section.

June 27th 2003
The A330 page under Aircraft - Airbus is now ready.

June 25th 2003
Major upgrade of the web site - Reports section added. At the same time the full report from the spotter trip to Schiphol last weekend in May is released.
Since last entry in May, a number of pages have been updated with new pictures or corrected/added information.

May 20th 2003
The DC-9 page under Aircraft - McDonnell Douglas has been updated and now include specifications for all sub-types.

May 18th 2003
The Airbus A380 page is now ready, and you'll find it under Aircraft - Airbus.

May 14th 2003
The MD-90 page under Aircraft - McDonnell Douglas has been updated and now include specifications.

May 13th 2003
The MD-80 page under Aircraft - McDonnell Douglas has been updated and now include specifications for all MD-80s.
A guest drawing has been added under Aircraft - Boeing - 737.

May 11th 2003
Today the drawing of the Douglas DC-3 is released. The DC-3 drawn is the 60 year old LN-WND from Dakota Norway. Later this year (August 2nd) an airshow will be held in honour of the jubilant at Torp Airport, Norway - you can get more info on this at the web site of Dakota Norway.

May 1st 2003
New report added - First day of Ryanair at Haugesund Airport

April 27th 2003
Back from Easter vacation - Jumpseat report from Fokker 50 flight between HAU and BGO added - the link is on the home page (click on the Fokker 50 photo).
The SAS aircraft list is also newly updated.

April 10th 2003
The Airbus A340 page is now finally ready - the page contains a drawing of the first delivered A340-211 - D-AIBA to Lufthansa.

March 25th 2003
The Boeing 757 page is updated with a drawing of the latest 757-351 to Northwest in their new paint scheme. I will like to thank Andreas Mowinckel for his spying skills at BFI ;-)

March 23rd 2003
These last couple of days minor changes and corrections have been done to a number of the pages, but today one important addition has been done to the Boeing pages - the Boeing customer numbers.

March 16th 2003
Finally it's done - Scandinavian Airlines is now on line under Airlines - here is the shortcut. These pages contains a lot of information an many hours of hard work. I will like to thank all of you that have contributed in one way or another. If you have comments or suggestion, don't hesitate to contact me on comments@plane-spotter.com.
The About section is extended with information on contributing photographers by Plane-Spotter.

February 28th 2003
The Boeing 737-section is now extended with chronology information and more photos. I'm also happy to announce that another photographer is now included into the fold - Nils Mosberg.

February 25th 2003
Boeing 777-300 ER added to the Boeing 777 section under Boeing Aircraft. I would like to thank Andreas Mowinckel for his photo session hours ago, nailing the first landing of the 777-300 ER prototype at Boeing Field
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February 9th 2003
This has been a productive weekend - now the 767 page is up and includes the drawing of 767-222 N606UA "City of Chicago". You can find it under Boeing Aircraft.

February 8th 2003
Now the 757 page is up under Boeing Aircraft and includes a drawing of the first delivered to Eastern Airlines.
During the last week have some minor changes been done in the Links section.

January 30th 2003
Direct links to press releases to the aircraft manufacturers are now included on the home page

January 29th 2003
The Boeing 7E7-project was launched today - link to the Boeing press release has now been included into the timeline on the opening page of the Aircraft section.

January 26th 2003
Finally the 747 page under Boeing Aircraft is ready.

January 22nd 2003
EuroCeltic has terminated services because UK licensing authorities suspended the company's UK licences - link to this airline is therefore taken out of the Airlines in Europe collection.

January 19th 2003
Now the drawing of the first delivered Boeing 717-200 (MD-95) and its page is ready under Boeing Aircraft. Next out will be the 747 - stay tuned.

January 16th 2003
Goodjet is out of business - removed from the Links - Airlines in Europe.
Links to Airport in Luxembourg, Malta, Moldova, and the Netherlands added.

January 15th 2003
Minor updates done to the A32X pages under Aircraft.
New pictures to the right >>>

January 12th 2003
Jet2 added to the links page for airlines in Europe - now the links to official airline sites around the world counts 722!

January 4th 2003
Happy New Year to You All !
I'm back from my ¿ well deserved ? Xmas / New Year holiday on the west coast of Norway. And during the last day of 2002 Plane-Spotter.com rounded 100,000 requests - only a little over 100 days after it was started!

I've started with the links to official airport sites in Europe. I've decided that I stage the Europe page even though it's not complete - then you can follow the progress.

 

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