Florida 2018 Day 5 Fri 23rd Nov Naples

[davidallum]

In the past whenever Geoff & I have gone to Florida we normally start off in Tampa,spend 2/3 days driving down the Gulf coast before heading off to Fort Lauderdale/Miami however this year for some unknown reason United wanted a ridiculous amount of money to travel to Tampa than Fort Lauderdale so the Atlantic coast it was.Despite having to travel down Alligator Alley twice it worked to our benefit as we had never experienced Naples airport during the Thanksgiving weekend.We had been told by a couple of fellow spotters who we were going to meet up with that Naples was going to be busy and so it proved.To our delight they were landing/departing on runway 05 and this is where the observation deck complete with ATC is located,there are toilets and drinking fountains provided and the roof that was blown off in the hurricane last year had been replaced so plenty of shade from the Florida sun,anyway enough waffle,on with the log:


Biz

N559X Gulfstream 550
N479PR Galaxy
N261WR Citation 560 Ultra
N330FX Phenom 300
C-GFAP Challenger 605
N774XJ Citation X
N70NJ Lear Jet 70
N991CE Falcon 2000
N794QS Challenger 350
N584FX Challenger 350
N603NE Citation 680A Latitude
N939QS Citation X
N525NT Citationjet
N937RV Beechjet 400A
N77CP Gulfstream 550
N2RC Citation 560 Ultra
N229CE Citation X
N181CH Citationjet 4
N306GV Phenom 300
N224N Challenger 604
N357QS Citation 680 Sovereign
N143CG Citation 560XL
N576QS Citation 560XLS
N661QS Citation 560XLS
N575FX Challenger 350
N253CP Citation 680 Sovereign
N366QS Phenom 300
N264VR Citation 560XL
N732WB Beechjet 400XP
N642QS Citation 560XLS
N917GP Citation 550-II
N244RG Lear Jet 35A
N510UP Citation 560XLS
N516CC Gulfstream 280
N418TM Beechjet 400XP
N727DJ Citation 560XL
N751EM Citation X
N743LG Lear Jet 60
N976SC 125-800A
N738QS Challenger 350
N311QS Citation 680 Sovereign
N262QS Falcon 2000
N407QS Phenom 300
N123RC Westwind
N505RH Citation 560 Encore
N890BB Falcon 900DX
N222MW Lear Jet 45
N888LE Citationjet
N884BB Falcon 900B
C-FIPP Lear Jet 40
N522AM Citation 560XLS
N746AR Falcon 900
N215DA Challenger 300
N75EB Citation 560XL
N59EC Citation 560XL
N371SF Citationjet 2
N559BM Citation 560-V
N711KU Falcon 20
N78FJ Falcon 2000
N504CP Falcon 50
N500CG Citation X
N622WW Citationjet 2
N717MB Citation 680 Sovereign
N501KT Lear Jet 45XR
C-GVIB Challenger 605
N388FW Citationjet
N1CF Challenger 605
C-GSJV Lear Jet 40
N546XJ Challenger 300
N918TB Global Express 5000
N1895C Citationjet 4
N723GH Challenger 601
N838BB 125-800XP
N560ML Citation 560XL
N857JS Citation 560XL
N875CA Lear Jet 60
N115SM Citationjet 3
N658KS Lear Jet 60
N525RC Citationjet
N125CH Global Express
N358RJ Challenger 300
C-GHBS Challenger 604
N6A Phenom 300
N1Y Legacy 500
N7DR Phenom 300
N251QS Falcon 2000
N566KB Citation 560 Ultra
N385PB Beechjet 400A
N67FT Citation 550-II
N272BW 125-900XP
N381QS Citation 680 Sovereign
N7FF Gulfstream 200
N30BP Citationjet M2
N151YD Citation 680 Sovereign
N226MY Challenger 604
N60KM Citation 560 Ultra
N252JN Citationjet
N175EM Phenom 100
N56BA Challenger 300
N443PW Citationjet 3
N674DJ Beechjet 400A
N996DN Citation 560XL
N52MN Citationjet 3
N142QS Global Express 6000
N600JV Global Express 6000
N903GS Falcon 2000


GA

N3TY Baron E55
N700AQ TBM 700C
N224CE Cirrus SR22
C-GPDA PA-46 Malibu 500TP
NC6138H Piper J-3C-65 Cub
N56BM Cirrus SR22
N28YM T.28C Trojan
N16CJ Cessna 206F (floats)
N497CP Cirrus SR22
N639AR Baron 58
N341WA Pilatus PC12
N535PG Cirrus SR22
N817MS King Air C90
N8932U V.35 Bonanza
N590ND PA-$$ Seminole 180
N84209 Lake LA-250N412CG Cirrus SR22T
N208EM Cessna 208
N709CH PA-46 Malibu 350P
N132KS Waco YMF-F5C
N414WR Cessna 414A
N7205E Baron 58P
N25DZ Cirrus SR22
N640SC Beech 60 Duke
N505WM Mooney 20R
N503CS Cirrus SR22
N421DE Cessna 421C
N800AC Rockwell Commander 500A
N3Z Mooney 20E
N724TT Cirrus SR20
N239JR Cessna 208
N357LH Robinson R22B
N55FS Bell 407
N5052H Bell 206B Jetranger
N82SB Pilatus PC12
N624CM Cirrus SR22
N911CK Eurocopter EC.135T.1
N776PS Baron 55

Because it was so busy we hardly noticed any of the OTT's but the following were logged:

XA-LEY 125-850XP
N79402 B737 United
N577QS Citation 560XLS
C-FPRP B737 Sunwing

Like most dedicated observation areas @ Florida airports they are open dawn to dusk and so when an airport operations guy turned up with still about 30 mins of daylight left we were a bit concerned,not to worry,he was here to lock the toilets up for the night.We started chatting and although he said that there were flights booked for Saturday,the Sunday would be the better day of the two with some 200 flights scheduled for departure so we decided that we would visit other airports on the Saturday and spend Sunday @ Naples,logs to follow for these two days.