St. Maarten airport - is this for real!!?

horrgakx · First Officer Joined: Jan 17, 2004 Posts: 310

Is this real? Apparently it's St. Maarten airport. Blimey!!!!
Dave

Flyaway · Site Admin Joined: Jun 28, 2003 Posts: 1234 Location: UK

Wow - thats a great pic. Great airport if you are a planespotter! My guess is it's real.

RadarMan · Posted: Tue Mar 02, 2004 7:22 pm

Wow! Here it is, fantastic isn't it.

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Flyaway · Site Admin Joined: Jun 28, 2003 Posts: 1234 Location: UK

Somewhere in the Carribean I'm guessing... some more pics!:

Can you even imagine how cool it would be to spend a day on the beach there! Notice, in almost every pic all heads are watching the aircraft.

More images added July, 2011:

A private jet landing over beach:

A blank Boeing 747 with no paintwork landing:

Flyaway · Site Admin Joined: Jun 28, 2003 Posts: 1234 Location: UK

This is becoming a hot topic - might have to write an article about St. Maarten.

RadarMan · Posted: Wed Mar 03, 2004 5:14 pm

These are the most fantastic videos of aircraft landings that I have ever seen.

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DiGrafika · Guest

We honeymooned in St. Maarten, those pics are for real. We sat on that beach for about 3 hours one day and watched them while drinking fresh Caribs.
I highly recommend the trip...the approach is so unbelieveable...

Rambunctious · Posted: Wed Mar 31, 2004 6:17 am

Yeah, airliners.net is a great place for these type of photos, especially of st. maarten.

Blondini · Guest

Yeh thats for real alright, flying in there on the 15th May 2004, wish me luck. Its Princess Juliana Airport on St Marteen in the Dutch Antillies.

Guest · Posted: Thu Apr 29, 2004 4:23 pm

next time you use one of my photos Fly Away guy, you may want to give me credit?

Rambunctious · Posted: Sat May 08, 2004 8:41 am

Guest · Posted: Thu Jun 17, 2004 7:46 pm

all of those pics are real!!

Island boy · Guest

yeah its real, probably taken from sunset beach bar. Air France and KLM
arrive and depart every thursday.

craigcolby · Trainee Joined: Oct 09, 2003 Posts: 1

I want to know, do they close the beach when a jet or plane needs to make a emergency landing at the airport? And, the same for if Air Force 1 lands there?

RadarMan · Posted: Sun Aug 22, 2004 4:19 pm

From what I can tell the beach is very short and a road is between it and the airport fence.
I doubt that AF1 will be visiting a small place like that any time soon.

Radar

Flyest · Guest

I am from St.maarten born on the dutch side and raised on the french side. It's for real I used to go there every weekend as a kid to watch the planes land and take off. It's a beautiful view.

St Maarten · Guest

I live right next to the runway, and everything you see in these pictures is for real!. Allthough I live on the far site of the runway, the planes turn around right in front of my house.

Is you love planes, you have to come and visit St Maarten, and offcourse do more down here then spot airplanes. Enjoy the island for its restaurants, bars, beaches, weather and people.

Enjoy your stay on the friendly island!

Chris102 · Chief Captain Joined: Oct 09, 2004 Posts: 1230

bdenns · Guest

how long is that runway? some of those planes look a little low on the GS

some1 from holland · Guest

yes i believe this is real because i have see it on tv...
there are more places like this with low flying airplanes above an beach... in holland we got schiphol and there rides airplanes over an bridge over the highway thats spectuculair to.. they see if it's hapen to you , you may do an wish....

greetz... the netherlands

Charrlie · Guest

Semi · Guest

Charrlie · Guest

nichelle · Guest

hey, i'm from st maarten and i live right next to the airport, and i just wanted to say that it's really cool to see these pics on the website and that you guys like the airport so close to the beach..i think it's pretty cool too Very Happy

nichelle · Guest

no they don't close the beach or surrounding area, and yes i've seen many air force planes on the airport already...and a lot of private jets (especially for x-mas and new years)

Guest · Posted: Sat Dec 18, 2004 4:35 pm

Hi! Im sure youve been asked before but I wasnt sure where to look. We will be visiting St Maarten on TH 12/30 (cruise stop) and would love to bring our 3 yr old airplane & beach loving son to Maho to watch the plane. What is the best time to get there to see several planes with a short waiting period? We are in port from 7-6 but dont want to spend all day there. Also for you locals, what is the best way to get there? Thanks for all your help! We cant wait to visit your beautiful island!

alison

Chris102 · Chief Captain Joined: Oct 09, 2004 Posts: 1230

Here's a picture of the famous sign.

http://www.l1011.homestead.com/signzz.html

tuco · Guest

I was leaving in the 2nd house in the mountain in the axe of the runway.
The plane make a curve just on the vertical of my house maybe 200-400 feet.so close that i can see hydraulic lick on the belly!!
An other funny game for rough guy it is to hang the wall behind the plane when the plane put full power with brake during 1 mn before moving. That's crazy your feet stop touching ground and you make like a flag after 30 sec. !!!!
spec of SXM:
runway long: 1780m
never more than 120 pax (i don't know the max weight)
only 5 hour of fuel in tank (include safety, so the flight after SXM never more than 80 mn.)

(sorry for my very bad english)

Guest · Posted: Mon Jan 10, 2005 8:39 pm

What airport are thies beach pictures at????

RadarMan · Posted: Mon Jan 10, 2005 9:15 pm