This F-15D "tub" was up from Kingsley Field, Oregon and on display in the Museum of Flight parking lot next to an F-22 Raptor for the weekend. Kingsley is where all active-duty and National Guard F-15 pilots are trained.
With a small puff of smoke from the tires, a P-8A, still fresh off the production line in near-by Renton, touches down at Boeing Field after a test flight.
After three low passes, the last Raptor off of the production line prepares to touch down at Boeing Field in Seattle. Her and a sister ship will be on display in the Museum of Flight parking lot over the weekend.
A very unusual (but welcome!) visitor to Bowers Field. This Wolfhound, based at Canon AFB in New Mexico, stopped by for a quick re-fuel, and then took off for parts unknown.
Soon to be replaced by Black Hawks, this UH-72A is assigned to the Yakima Training Center in the DUSTOFF roll, and stopped by Moses Lake for a lunch break while on a training mission.
Part of a four-ship of VMFA-232 Red Devil Hornets stopped at BFI after working through the low-level routes in the Cascade Mountains of Washington State.
An Oregon National Guard Chinook prepares to depart McCormick Air Center after dropping off a load of JBLM-based Soldiers on a rainy February afternoon.
Here she is almost exactly two years after the last time I took a shot at her. Not only is this the PBY that was in Always, but they actually filmed the movie on location here in Ephrata. During WWII the airport was a B-17 training base.
A new C-17 for me (and my first submission with my new Canon 70D and 70-300mmL glass), 1105 comes in for a touch and go at Grant County on a gorgeous February afternoon.
This is the first P-8A to be completed in 2015, seen on its first taxi test at Renton. It will soon fly to Boeing Field in Seattle for final outfitting before delivery to the US Navy.
The first P-8A to be completed in 2015 returns from its first high-speed taxi test at Renton. It will soon make it first flight, and then transfer to Boeing Field in Seattle for final outfitting before delivery to the US Navy.
After a two-week deployment to Central Washington, This MH-60 of Charlie Company, 4th Battalion, 160th SOAR prepares to head back to its base at Joint Base Lewis-McChord outside of Tacoma, Washington
After almost two weeks in Yakima for training, 03787 and her three sisters pull out and head back over the Cascade mountains to Joint Base Lewis-McChord.