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Astraeus Air's 757-23A that's painted in the special Iron Maiden livery is in town as AEU666. The flight arrived around midnight...

Mokulele Airlines began flying their E170 between HNL and OGG on February 1st. N870RW (msn 1700138) is shown arriving today as Flight 214.

QantasLink's SunState Airlines is taking delivery of C-FUOI, a DHC-8-402Q (msn 4238). It's arriving here from YYZ via YYB, GRR, and...

Lion Air International is taking delivery of PK-LFT, their next 737-9GER(W), and will be making its stop at HNL today as LNI001.

All Nippon Airways has one of their 767-381ERs painted in the "Fly Panda" color scheme. It arrived today as ANA1052 from NRT.

Air China is taking delivery of B-5197 (c/n 36811), a 737-86N, which is being leased from GECAS. It's flying as CCA058, the Air China d...

Hainan Airlines has a daily double with two 737-800(W) deliveries overnighting at HNL, B-5408 & B-5427. In the top photo, B-5427 (c/n 35...

Another Qantas 747-338 is making its way to MZJ from SYD via HNL for retirement. Flying as QFA6020, this 743 is taking a break at HNL befor...

Xiamen Airlines' latest 737-86N(W), B-5389 (c/n 35636), made it's HNL stop on its delivery flight from BFI. Sorry, no HNL photo, tho...

China Eastern Airlines is taking delivery of B-5199 (c/n 36272), their latest 737-89P(W). It arrived HNL from BFI a liitle after noon as CE...

Hainan Airlines' B-5418 (c/n 36541), a 737-86N(W), is on its delivery flight, and it arrived at HNL in the midst of the latest storm hit...

There are to UA flights from ONT as UAL9844 and UAL9856 that are scheduled to stop through HNL today. They are scheduled to go onto DNA (Ka...

Zest Air , a new entry in the Philippine airline market, took delivery of RP-C8898 (msn 2147), an Airbus A320-232, that stopped over at ITO,...

Qantas Airways is sending one of their 747-338s to a desert storage facility, possibly MZJ. It's using their ferry/delivery flight numb...

Xiamen Airlines' B-5385 (c/n 35633), a 737-86N(W), is the first in-bound delivery flight for 2009, and the third CXA delivery in almost ...

From the HNL RareBirds Team ... Happy New Year! May you all ahave a blessed and prosperous 2009!

We did some passes in a 172 this afternoon. Counted 40 of these privates; some not in the photo.

Closing out the 2008 delivery flights are ... Shenzhen Airlines' B-5410 (c/n 35088), a 737-8AL(W), which is flying as CSZ5410. Due to t...

Xiamen Airlines' B-5388 (c/n 35635), a 737-86N(W), is making its delivery flight during the New Year's holiday as well, and is flyin...

A Malaysian Air Force A319-115X CJ, 9M-NAA (cn2949), was parked on the North Ramp today at HNL. This aircraft is apparently used by the Prim...