HNL RareBirds™

Aloha Airlines took delivery of its first BAC-111 on April 16, 1966. Flying from London, the aircraft set two world records enroute to Honol...

Whether it corresponds with North Korea's sabre-rattling or not is up for debate but Hickam has been a very busy place recently. A numbe...

Xiamen Airlines' newest 737-85C(W) is B-5456 (c/n 35054). It arrived from BFI as CXA5456 late this morning, and will overnight at HNL b...

Hainan Airlines is taking delivery of B-5466 (c/n 34034), a 737-84P(W). It arrived at HNL under voggy skies as B5466, and will continue acr...

Earlier this week, N834AL, painted all white, was parked in the Aloha Air Cargo hangar. It was a little suspicious as the registration was ...

While working at Magic Island on the Lantern Floating broadcast crew, I also saw a Polet Flight An124-100, and a white tail 737-800(W) make ...

China Eastern Airlines is taking delivery of B-5255 (c/n 36757), a 737-79P(W), and is flying as CES299.

Lion AIr International has taken delivery of its second 737-9GPER(W) this month, PK-LFZ (c/n 35726). As usual, it just stopped briefly for ...

U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Lloyd King has basically blocked Yucaipa from bidding on the auction of the Aloha Airlines intellectual property. Yuc...

N770BB (c/n 25220), a 757-2J4(W), owned by Yucaipa Companies LLC (Burbank, CA) is town. It's configured as a business jet. N770BB was ...

Shenzhen Airlines' is taking delivery of B-5412 (c/n 35533), a 737-87L(W). It arrived early this morning at HNL from BFI as CSZ909, and...

Lion Air International is taking delivery of their newest 737-9GER(W), PK-LFY (c/n 35725), and is routed as LNI1. It's parked on the Ai...

Shenzhen Airlines is taking delivery of B-5413 (c/n 35535), a 737-87L(W), today and is routed as CSZ908. It parked on the north ramp hardst...

Air China's next 737-89L(W), B-5425 (c/n 36743), is delivering as CCA58 today. It parked on the north ramp hardstands as well. Mahalo t...

N164CG, an ex-SriLankan A320-231, transited through HNL today. While with SriLankan, it was registered as 4R-ABF (msn 164), is returning t...

Aloha Air Cargo now has three of their aircraft in the new livery. The latest to get the new livery is N826AL. From left to right is N826AL...

Hainan Airlines is taking delivery of B-5467 (c/n 36779), a 737-84P(W). It arrived yesterday, and will be leaving for MAJ this morning. Sor...

Skymark Airlines' newest 737-8F2(W), JA737U (c/n 29680) arrived last night from BFI on its delivery flight as SKY737U. It's schedul...

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China Southern Airlines is taking delivery of their newest 737-81B, B-5421 (c/n 35373). It's flying as CSN501 from BFI, and completed i...