I went for a day trip to Seattle today to try to catch the #Alaska787 #N784HA with Aurora Borealis livery. For the takeoff, I found a spot with better lighting, putting the late-afternoon setting sun behind me. #KSEA #aviation #travel #avgeek #PNW

I went for a day trip to Seattle today to try to catch the #Alaska787 #N784HA with Aurora Borealis livery. I got it! The weather was perfect except for unavoidable low sun angle of winter. The spot where I was for the landing didn't have ideal lighting and got the shaded side of the plane. #KSEA #aviation #travel #avgeek #PNW

Alex Crail posted a nice photo of the newly-painted #Alaska787 #N784HA arrival at Seattle-Tacoma Int'l Airport #KSEA last night before its entry into service today. https://www.airliners.net/photo/Alaska-Airlines/Boeing-787-9-Dreamliner/8010593/L #aviation #travel #avgeek #PNW

New #Alaska787 #N784HA is in flight on its entry-into-service flight from Seattle #KSEA to Tokyo Narita #RJAA . (link in previous post) And a friend pointed out that even before that took off, Hawaiian's oldest 787 #N780HA flew from Seattle to Fort Worth #KFTW to be repainted to Alaska. The other 3 are expected to get turns in the paint hangar before Seattle-Rome flights begin in late April. https://www.flightaware.com/live/flight/N780HA/history/20260108/1810Z/KSEA/KFTW #aviation #business #travel #avgeek #PNW

A new flight plan indicates #Alaska787 #N784HA entry into service flight will be tomorrow (Thu Jan 8) from Seattle #SEA / #KSEA to Tokyo Narita #NRT / #RJAA. So now we can tell the week it spent on the ground at LAX in December was fleet induction and readiness for service, pretty much as expected. Between now and then it has to fly from Boeing Field to Seattle-Tacoma Int'l, a distance of 5 nautical miles (6mi/9km). https://www.flightaware.com/live/flight/N784HA/history/20260108/2030Z/KSEA/RJAA #aviation #business #travel #avgeek #PNW

Alaska Airlines posted their #Alaska787 time-lapse painting video on YouTube, titled "The future of Alaska Airlines is here | Meet our first 787 Dreamliner" (56 sec) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWOkhS26GH4 #N784HA #aviation #business #travel #avgeek #PNW

"Alaska Airlines welcomes first 787 widebody aircraft in new global livery", press release by Alaska Airlines - Official photos and time-lapse painting video released of #Alaska787 #N784HA, which were taken outside the paint hangar at Fort Worth Meacham Field #KFTW before departure for its Seattle unveiling. (There have not yet been blue skies in the normally-rainy #PNW since it arrived last night.) https://news.alaskaair.com/images-videos/alaska-airlines-global-livery/ #aviation #business #travel #avgeek

"Alaska Airlines orders 110 Boeing jets, a record purchase to boost global service" by KOMO News (ABC Seattle) - Media are starting to post images from Alaska Airlines unveiling of #Alaska787 #N784HA in new Alaska aurora livery for international flights. The press event in a Boeing hangar at Boeing Field #KBFI in Seattle also announced the new order for 105 737 MAX10 + 5 787-10 planes for delivery from 2027 to 2035. https://komonews.com/news/local/alaska-airlines-orders-110-boeing-jets-a-record-purchase-to-boost-global-service-airplane-plane-travel-industry-manufacturing-international-america-arrival-departure-seattle-tacoma-international-airport-737 #aviation #business #travel #avgeek #PNW

I hope someone got a better picture than the BFI webcam. By the time we all knew it was coming, there wasn't time for me to get to Seattle in rainstorm-commute traffic. But actually in Seattle the front passed and rain ended before the landing. ADS-B shows it taxied to a Boeing hangar. No surprise. Alaska doesn't have a 787-sized hangar at SeaTac yet. But Boeing has hangars big enough at BFI, considering that was the flight test base for the 787. #Alaska787 #N784HA #KBFI #aviation #avgeek

#avgeek alert: #Alaska787 #N784HA arriving at Seattle Boeing Field #KBFI
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