Date Airline Flight Type Regn Routing Time Miles Remarks
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Ok, Summer Break is over with and back to California. I booked a United DC-8 flight DEN-SFO and was pleased to find a DC-8-61 at the gate when I arrived. At SFO I spent most of the rest of the day there photographing planes from the smaller, less used observation deck that overlooked the Golden Gate Airlines commuter ramp. This date was also a pivotal date for me in my plane watching hobby as I met a couple of English guys who introduced me to a book called "World Airline Fleets" and I was hooked on plane spotting from this day forward. After I got home, I promptly went to a local book store and they kindly ordered the 1978 edition of World Airline Fleets. After I got it I went back through all my photographs and noted as many tail numbers as I could and marked them off in the book. The rest they say, is history.

Below is my photo of N8097U at SFO taxying for the next flight after my arrival.
Photo: Aeromoe



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