Birthday Spotting at Gold Coast (Coolangatta)

Today is my birthday and since I had to work on the Gold Coast I thought I would start my day by spending an hour at the airport on the Gold Coast at Coolangatta catching the early morning international departures and a few local arrivals. Cooly gets two Air Asia X arrivals 4 days a week, the first one arrives at 6.30 from Kuala Lumpur and departs at 9.30 back to KL. The second one arrives at 10am from KL and departs at 11.15am for Auckland New Zealand returning later that night.

AUSTRALIA WINGS ACADEMY CESSNA 172R VH-ONW (CN 172 80703)

AIR ASIA X A330-343 9M-XXK (CN 1433)

AIR NEW ZEALAND A320-232 ZK-OJF (CN 2153)

CESSNA 310R VH-DAI (CN 310R 0872)

AUSTRALIA WINGS ACADEMY CESSNA 172R VH-EOV (CN 17280699)

JETSTAR A320-232 VH-VFJ (CN 5311)

AUSSIE AIR CHARTER ROBINSON R44 VH-KCH (CN 1548)

TIGERAIR A320-232 VH-VNB (CN 2906)

JETGO EMBRAER 135 VH-JGB (CN 145728)

SHARP AIRLINES FAIRCHILD SA227 VH-UUN (CN A6-686)

AIR ASIA X A330-343 9M-XXT (CN 1549)

JETSTAR B787-8 VH-VKB (CN 36228)

Every year my beautiful lovely wife makes me a cake of my choice, I have had a KLM 747, a runway, and an aircraft scanner. This year I asked for a control tower and I may say she didn't disappoint.