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

14268

Top 10 views

LN-DYC

1686

G-CIVN

1612

G-BNWT

1285

N801FR

1234

N901FR

990

N232FR

986

T17-3

967

N803FR

951

N804FR

940

N801FR

918

Number of unique registrations numbers

8048

Top 10 registration numbers

ET-AOQ

28

161883

23

N850FD

21

F-BVFA

18

162866

17

G-BOAG

16

NC19903

16

D-ABYA

15

N162W

15

N538AS

14

Number of unique airports

248

Top 10 airports

IAD

2142

BWI

1343

ADW

1311

DCA

1100

FRA

675

LHR

503

FCO

296

PRG

286

JNB

200

KUL

196

Number of unique types

2179

Top 10 types

737

2036

A320

1131

747

925

777

801

A319

530

767

527

757

511

A330

499

A321

348

ERJ

321

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

45 / 41 / 56

American Airlines

28 / 20 / 37

Boeing 747SP

37 / 22 / 45

British Airways Tails

72 / 0 / 72

Centennial of Naval Aviation

8 / 0 / 29

Delta Airlines

36 / 30 / 56

Dreamliner Colors

8 / 13 / 19

Frontier Airlines

290 / 167 / 321

JAL StarJets

10 / 0 / 10

jetBlue

104 / 211 / 234

Kulula

13 / 5 / 20

NASA

37 / 0 / 37

Norwegian.com

57 / 85 / 110

OneWorld

47 / 78 / 109

PIA Provincial Tails

8 / 0 / 36

Production Milestones

17 / 21 / 41

RetroJets & Heritage Schemes

70 / 84 / 119

Sky Airlines

5 / 0 / 20

SkyTeam

37 / 91 / 103

Southwest Airlines

85 / 46 / 98

Star Alliance

187 / 181 / 300

US Airways

19 / 4 / 19

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