GS Motorrad
View allAll Photos Tagged GSPD
F-GSPD - Boeing B-777-228/ER - Air France
at Toronto Lester B. Pearson Airport (YYZ)
c/n 29.005 - built in 1999
@ Air France [ AF / AFR ] France
• Date : 1933 -
• Codes : AF AFR
• Callsign : AirFrans
• Web site : www.airfrance.fr
Boeing 777-228 (ER) - msn 29005 / 187
• ENG : 2x GE GE90-94B
• REG : F-GSPD
• PAX : C28W24Y260
@ Aircraft History :
• 19.DEC.1998 : First flight at built site Everett (PAE) WA USA
• 12.JUN.1999 : Delivered / Air France / F-GSPD / configured "C35W24Y250"
• APR.2017 : re-configured "C28W24Y260"
It makes a change to see Air France's long-haul wide-body fleet, and very happy to see them too as their fleet is undergoing major modification especially as their Boeing 777-200ER fleet don't have long left in their careers as they are being replaced by an ever-growing fleet of Airbus A350-900s.
Air France operates 19 weekly flights between their main hub at Paris-Charles de Gaulle and Los Angeles; 2 of those daily flights utilise their flagship Boeing 777-300ERs, although prior to 2020 their Airbus A380s would have been regularly used on one of the daily flights, which have since been withdrawn from service.
Outside of the 2 daily flights, Air France provides a separate twice and a thrice-weekly flights, the twice-weekly frequency utilising their ageing Boeing 777-200ERs whilst their thrice-weekly flight incorporates their Airbus A350-900s (which often get substituted with either Airbus A330-200s or Boeing 777-300ERs). It's the twice-weekly frequency that is worthy of mention, AF78/79 sees Los Angeles acting as a stop-over for flights continuing onwards to Tahiti, located in French Polynesia.
Currently, Air France operates 63 Boeing 777s, which includes 18 Boeing 777-200ERs, 43 Boeing 777-300ERs and 2 Boeing 777Fs.
Golf Sierra Papa Delta is one of 18 Boeing 777-200ERs operated by Air France, delivered new to the flag-carrier on 12th January 1999 and she is powered by 2 General Electric GE90-94B engines.
Boeing 777-228/ER F-GSPD slows on Runway 25L at Los Angeles (LAX), California on AF79 from Faa'a-Papeete Tahiti (PPT) to Paris-Charles de Gaulle (CDG).
Boeing 777-228/ER F-GSPD (29005/187) of Air France with the wheels hanging a bit longer than usual at CYVR.