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Trip Report: Link Airways Saab 340 HBA-CBR
Earlier this week my Dad and I took a short three night trip to Canberra. This gave me the opportunity to try an airline I'd never flown...
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Semi-regular blog posts of both trip reports, photos from plane spotting and other aviation-related bits and pieces.
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HobartAviationFan
- Jan 1, 2023
- 2 min
HBA Spotting November/December
It's been an exceptional two months at YMHB as summer season has begun. I've managed to go out plane spotting quite a lot (thanks to Mum...
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HobartAviationFan
- Dec 31, 2022
- 3 min
An A-Z of Aviation in 2022
After considering a few ways to recap my first year of aviation blogging/photography I have decided to go with this A-Z list, I hope you...
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HobartAviationFan
- Dec 18, 2022
- 2 min
Flightradar24 Spottings #4
It's been a while since I have done one of these posts but there have been a number of interesting aircraft that I've seen on FR24 during...
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HobartAviationFan
- Nov 26, 2022
- 4 min
A History of Australian Airlines- FlyPelican
This is the first of a new series of posts where I cover the history of various Australian Airlines. I wanted to start with a newer...
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HobartAviationFan
- Nov 18, 2022
- 3 min
3 Reasons I'm Excited for Bonza to Start Flying
Another shorter and slightly different blog, but because I don't have a huge amount of blog material until the summer, I thought this...
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HobartAviationFan
- Nov 1, 2022
- 2 min
HBA Spotting September/October
The last two months at the airport have turned out to be very interesting. There have been a surprising number of unexpected and unusual...
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HobartAviationFan
- Oct 22, 2022
- 3 min
Trip Report: Air NZ A320 AKL-WLG
After a night in Auckland our travels continued, this time trying out the Air New Zealand A320 domestic product down to Wellington. After...
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HobartAviationFan
- Oct 20, 2022
- 3 min
Trip Report: Air NZ A321neo HBA-AKL
My first trip out of Tasmania in over two years would see me trying out the Air New Zealand Trans-Tasman narrow-body product. After...
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HobartAviationFan
- Sep 1, 2022
- 2 min
HBA Spotting July/August
This will be my new style of spotting posts, where I just do one post covering a few months of spotting action at YMHB. Having done a...
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HobartAviationFan
- Jul 22, 2022
- 3 min
A tour of Cambridge Aerodrome with Shannon Wells
After my blog post about the Par Avion Southwest wilderness day trip I took, Managing Director of Par Avion Shannon Wells very, very...
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HobartAviationFan
- Jul 10, 2022
- 2 min
HBA Plane Spotting 10/7/22
I made it out to Tower Hill for one of my best spotting sessions ever! I arrived to an Alliance Airlines E190, QantasLink 717 and Sharp...
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HobartAviationFan
- Jul 3, 2022
- 2 min
An overview of my model plane collection
While I have some longer posts that I'm working on, I'm quite busy at school so have no idea when they'll be finished, so in the mean...
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HobartAviationFan
- Jun 13, 2022
- 1 min
HBA Plane Spotting 13/6/22
I finally got back out to Tower Hill today for a great session of plane spotting. I arrived at early afternoon rush hour, to a very busy...
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HobartAviationFan
- May 6, 2022
- 1 min
Flightradar24 Spottings #3
These photos were taken a while ago, but I haven't had the chance to put them into a blog until now, enjoy! As usual a lot of military...
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HobartAviationFan
- Apr 20, 2022
- 2 min
HBA Plane Spotting 20/4/22
I got back out to Tower Hill for a windy and somewhat freezing session of plane spotting this afternoon, and it was much better than...
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HobartAviationFan
- Apr 14, 2022
- 4 min
3 Reasons why the Boeing 717 will always be my favourite Plane
Something a bit different but I thought this could be an interesting post, so here we go.... But first a brief history on the 717 The...
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HobartAviationFan
- Mar 14, 2022
- 1 min
HBA Plane Spotting 14/03/22
I finally got back out to Tower Hill for a drizzly afternoon plane spotting session. I arrived just in time to see a Jetstar A321 head...
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HobartAviationFan
- Mar 6, 2022
- 2 min
Flightradar24 Spottings #2
To make up for another weekend not at Tower Hill (I'll aim to go next weekend, I'm also going to 7 Mile Beach but due to circumstances...
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HobartAviationFan
- Feb 25, 2022
- 1 min
Flightradar24 Spottings
So having been stuck at home this week with Covid, I've found that watching aircraft activity on Flightradar24 is a good activity to...
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