Lockon Aviation Photography

The photos on this site were taken over a period from about 1988 to present. My interests originally included mostly military aircraft; however, as the military phased out bright colors in favor of Low-Viz paint schemes, I started to gain more interest in Civil Airliners and other non-military aircraft.

Cameras: As of April 2013 the well used Nikon D200 is retired and I now use the Nikon D500 and occasionally the Nikon D800 with the new AF-S NIKKOR 80-400mm f/4.5-5.6G ED VR and Nikkor 18-200mm VR II lenses. My other favorite lenses are the Tokina 11-16mm f/2.8 II and old Nikon 35-105mm because the lens fits in most fences. Lenses have ranged from marginal non-Nikon lenses to an assortment of Nikon lenses including the now retired workhorse 80-400 VR lens (original version).

Film Photos: Prior to digital I used Fuji Provia 100F & Kodachrome 25 and 64 film in a variety of Nikon film bodies that included the Nikon N2000, 8008s, N90s and F100. Slides were scanned with a Nikon Coolscan 4000ED and Vuescan software. Many older images were scanned with the Minolta Scan Dual II.

If you would like any information about the photos on this site including permission to use them, please send e-mail using the form below.

Published Photographs

See my photographs on these sites

Airlines of the Jet Age: A History (Smithsonian Press) - R.E.G Davies - Cover
International Air Power Review
US Air Power - Modern Bombers (Greenhill) - Anil Pustam
P-3 Orion in Action (Squadron) - Rich Dann & Rick Burgess
BAC One-Eleven The Whole Story - Stephan Skinner
Air Force One (Motorbooks) - Bob Dorr
Boeing 747-400 (Airliner Tech Series - vol 10) - Bob Dorr
World Air Power Journal
Desert Storm : Air War (The Power Series)
Flying the Frontiers : NACA and NASA Experimental Aircraft
Periodicals: Scramble, Airline92 (Spanish), Pri-Fly, Koku Fan
Corporate: America West, Snecma Motors (CFM), Sprayavia & more

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Statistics

Total number of photos

15205

Top 10 views

N481MC

58860

LN-DYC

1808

G-CIVN

1737

64-14847

1426

G-BNWT

1395

N801FR

1341

T17-3

1095

N901FR

1081

N232FR

1072

N803FR

1053

Number of unique registrations numbers

8556

Top 10 registration numbers

ET-AOQ

29

161883

23

N850FD

21

F-BVFA

18

162866

17

NC19903

16

D-ABYA

16

G-BOAG

16

N162W

15

1003

15

Number of unique airports

249

Top 10 airports

IAD

2461

BWI

1549

ADW

1435

DCA

1195

FRA

675

LHR

503

FCO

296

PRG

286

JNB

200

KUL

196

Number of unique types

2248

Top 10 types

737

2172

A320

1202

747

956

777

846

767

554

A319

543

757

535

A330

528

A321

444

787

344

Special Colors Fleet Statistics

Fleet

Photographed / Current / Total

1Time.co.za

6 / 0 / 9

Air Asia

19 / 21 / 37

Air India Express

16 / 17 / 25

AirTran Airways

17 / 0 / 28

Alaska, Virgin & Horizon Airlines

50 / 48 / 65

Allegiant Air

8 / 8 / 13

American Airlines

31 / 24 / 41

America`s 250th

15 / 21 / 21

Boeing 747SP

37 / 22 / 45

British Airways Tails

72 / 0 / 72

Centennial of Naval Aviation

8 / 0 / 29

Copa Airlines

10 / 5 / 18

Delta Airlines

39 / 31 / 58

Dreamliner Colors

8 / 13 / 19

Frontier Airlines

341 / 227 / 381

JAL StarJets

10 / 0 / 10

jetBlue

34 / 34 / 40

Kulula

13 / 5 / 20

NASA

38 / 1 / 38

Norwegian.com

57 / 79 / 110

OneWorld

53 / 83 / 115

PIA Provincial Tails

8 / 0 / 36

Production Milestones

19 / 18 / 40

RetroJets & Heritage Schemes

72 / 96 / 132

Sky Airlines

5 / 0 / 20

SkyTeam

37 / 91 / 103

Southwest Airlines

92 / 50 / 106

Star Alliance

191 / 199 / 319

United & Continental Airlines

22 / 13 / 27

US Airways

19 / 4 / 19

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