Maurice B. Quirin has been a landscape and transportation photographer since 1972. He's a member of the New Hampshire Aviation Historical Society and National Railway Historical Society. Mr. Quirin is co-author, with Edward W. Brouder Jr., of Manchester's Airport: Flying Through Time (ISBN 0-9721489-9-X). Mr. Quirin also worked as a freelance editor and anchor for The Wall Street Journal Radio Network and was news director at WBNS radio in Columbus, OH.

Wednesday, March 20, 2013

Sun Country Netherlands' 737-800 Visits Lexington

Several charters carried NCAA basketball teams into Lexington for Thursday/Saturday tournament games at 23,000-seat Rupp Arena.

On a blustery March 19, we managed to catch the unusual Sun Country Netherlands'-registered PH-HGZ, a Boeing 737-800 leased from Amsterdam-based Transavia ... hence the huge "t" on the tail and engine nacelles.



Aboard Sun Country Flight 8600 from Fort Collins was the Colorado State Rams squad, slated to play the Missouri Tigers on Thursday night.

As you can see from the wind sock,  it was howling ... with low-level wind shear advisories from the LEX tower for multi-knot losses on the final approach to Runway 22.






More information about Sun Country's leased aircraft is available courtesy of Planespotters.net


Sun Country Flight 8600 heads to the TAC Air ramp, where buses await the Colorado State team for the trip to downtown Lexington.