Peoria Station

Peoria Int'l Airport was visited by not one but two big jets Tuesday, August 27. A Boeing 747-400 stopped here in early evening for what appears to have been a military charter. The plane, operating as Atlas Air Flight# 8083 on a Houston (Bush Intercont'l)-Peoria-Anchorage-Fukuoka, Japan itinerary, arrived at 8:14pm and departed at 11:42pm. The big plane was parked at the Ronald W. Burling Cargo Terminal ramp between flights. Also visiting Tuesday was a United States Air Force KC-10 Extender, a military tanker based on the McDonnell Douglas DC-10 tri-jet. Unfortunately, I could only capture these planes at night, but at least managed to record the historic events. - David P. Jordan

A Peoria guy visits O'Hare! There are almost 24 minutes of video here showing selected arrivals to Runway 10C at Chicago-O'Hare International Airport between 0800 and 1700 Saturday, July 29, 2017. Highlights include nine 747s, most foreign widebodies, an American Airlines 787-9, a Lufthansa Cargo MD-11, two FedEx DC-10s and a WOW Air A-321 from Reykjavik, Iceland! Most scenes were shot from the same location, but I had to improvise on three occasions. - David P. Jordan