Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport (PHX, KPHX)

[Joe Copalman]

Thank you so much for posting these Ryan. 

No joke on the ramp - AA DC-10s, Delta 727s - I just want to jump into this photo with my camera!

[David Loera]

no kidding Joe

[Jbong]

Wait a minute joe I thought I saw you on top of the terminal. I wish they would do that again.

[Paul Dumm]

Yep, that was a time when you could take a nap on the runway. I forgot that Southwest had a few B727's. And this is before AWA or back when they only had 3 old B737's

[Jbong]

Question on the far top left there is 2 aircrafts with 4 engines any ideas what or who they are? And I wonder what static sircrafts where on display.

[Paul Dumm]

I think thay are old DHL DC-8's. That is where the cargo used to be at.

[Matt Ottosen]

These are really cool, Ryan, thanks for sharing them with us!

[Ryan Keough]

Glad to share!  We have tons of old photo treasures over at the company and I am slowly going through everything and digitizing it -- I'm limited in some cases with the quality of the scanner, so if anyone has a really high quality one that they are looking to sell and swap out, let me know.  Everything is in print form... no negatives and no slides... so I am limited by the quality of the prints.

At the same time, if anyone has any photos of the old Cutter facility that was over on Air Lane between 1959-1988 (before the current location opened), I'd love to see them!  We have almost nothing from that time.

By the way, Bob Whitworth over at our Facebook page (http://www.facebook.com/cutter.aviation.page) said that the PHX Airport Museum is planning a 75th Anniversary exhibit within the next two months, so if anyone has any archive shots that they'd like to help out with, please let me know.

Thanks,
Ryan K.

[Ryan Keough]

I think thay are old DHL DC-8's. That is where the cargo used to be at.

Actually, one of my friends who was flying cargo into PHX that year via a Cessna 402 said that he was pretty sure they were UPS DC-8's from what he recalled.

Either way, DC-8's are still awesome and rare these days!  Does anyone know if there are any DC-8 freight birds still out there?

Thanks,
Ryan

[Dave S.]

I'm digging the view of Terminal 1 in the background.  Brings back fond memories when you used to walk out to the planes and board via the internal stairs, at least on the old Republic DC-9's.

- Dave

[Paul Dumm]

Ryan, You probable right. I could not remember if it was UPS, DHL, or Flying Triers (or some thing like that).

[Joe Copalman]

ATI is still flying them, NASA has one, and I think there are a handful of smaller cargo carriers that have them. 

UPS was flying DC-8s into PHX as recently as two years ago, but I think they've purged them from their fleet.

[Matt Ottosen]

I'm digging the view of Terminal 1 in the background.  Brings back fond memories when you used to walk out to the planes and board via the internal stairs, at least on the old Republic DC-9's.

- Dave

I loved flying out of T1 when I was a kid, I thought it was so cool being able to walk out to the planes!

[David Loera]

Beech 1900D

[wingsnstuff]

Ryan, welcome to the group and what a beautiful set of the balloons at Sky Harbor.  Thanks for sharing.