Visiting Taoyuan to watch planes is a travel itinerary I highly recommend. If a foreign friend asks me what’s fun in Taoyuan, I might suggest they go watch planes near Taoyuan Airport! The plane-watching spot on Dayuan’s War Preparedness Contact Road in Taoyuan is a great place to watch planes take off and land up close. It’s worth revisiting, and you can easily spend several hours leisurely watching planes come and go.
Following my last visit to the “Miracle Coffee Field” near the north runway to watch planes take off and land up close, and about two weeks ago, I went to the third terminal coffee shop to shoot the “plane butts” on the south runway… (I didn’t write a special article because the weather was bad.), this time, taking advantage of the good weather during the Qingming Festival, and considering the extra flights during the holiday, I rode my motorcycle early in the morning to this not-so-private spot – the War Preparedness Contact Road in Dayuan, Taoyuan to shoot planes.
Location of Plane Spotting at Taoyuan Airport War Preparedness Contact Road
Address & Coordinates for Watching Planes in Dayuan, Taoyuan:
Dayuan Township, Taoyuan County, Downhill Road Airport Contact Road, Google Navigation Positioning: E121°14’09” ( 121.2358) N 25°04’04” ( 25.0678) to arrive. Currently, the contact road is surrounded by horses and cars are not allowed to drive in directly. It is recommended that friends who want to go can park on the opposite open space. Also, please take your trash with you and do not cause trouble for the locals.
The contact road is downwind in the morning, so if the weather is good, you can easily shoot the blue sky as a background, and the plane theme will not produce too many shadows. However, because the contact road itself is blocked by a wire mesh guardrail, be careful not to get cut when shooting; more professional photographers will bring their own small ladder to avoid being blocked by the wire mesh when shooting planes.
▼ This photo was taken when I was about to leave, and even early in the morning, many people came with their families.
Originally, one of the purposes of this trip was to shoot “Delta Air Lines”, which is about to cancel its Taiwan route, but I didn’t get to shoot it because it took off on the north runway. (Because there are not many related articles on the Internet, I am not sure if Delta Air Lines always takes off on the north runway, please correct me if I am wrong.); Despite this, because there were many extra flights during the Qingming Festival, and it was morning time, I shot a lot of film in less than two hours.
▼ What sets the contact road apart from other spots is that you can shoot the front of the plane, which, when shot with a telephoto lens, is very powerful and tense. (The photo is of an EVA Air 777-300ER passenger plane, the largest twin-engine wide-body passenger plane in the world at present.)
Today’s south runway is taking off and landing from the west, so most of the photos I took are of planes sprinting to take off or taxiing to land. Because about half of the planes taking off from the south runway are EVA Air, although I took photos of each one, I only selected a few representative ones to post because they all look similar.
▼ The AIR MACAU A321-231 passenger plane heading to Macau, with the aircraft number B-MAQ, flew two round trips between Taipei and Macau that day.
▼ ANA Cargo plane, with a simple and powerful livery.
▼ Eastar Jet from Incheon Airport, a 737-800 model with the aircraft number HL8264, is an 18-year-old plane.
▼ Shooting a 747 passenger plane from the front compared to a 777-300ER, the Queen of the Sky 747 still has a slight edge in terms of presence.
▼ China Airlines A330-302 passenger plane heading to Kansai Airport, with the aircraft number B-18352, is a rare sight among the sea of EVA Air planes.
▼ EVA Air A321-211 heading to Tianjin, with the aircraft number B-16219, is a new plane that’s only a year old (EVA Air old livery).
▼ EVA Air 777-36N(ER) heading to Singapore, with the aircraft number B-16722, is the Hello Kitty Starry Sky plane (one of the only three remaining Hello Kitty livery planes).
▼ Cathay Pacific 777-367(ER) from Hong Kong, with the aircraft number B-KPB, is the Spirit of Hong Kong livery plane.
▼ Just saw the front of EVA Air 747-400 passenger plane (B-16410), heading to Manila, the plane is 19 years old and should retire this year.
▼ Cathay Pacific B777-367(ER) aircraft (BKPS) arrives in Taoyuan from Hong Kong.
▼ The Really Cool Airlines 777-212(ER) with its unique livery, tail number HS-XBB, is en route to Bangkok.
▼ Xiamen Airlines B737-86N (B-5309) is delayed on its flight to Xiamen.
▼ The AIR MACAU A319-132, tail number B-MAL, is a mini marvel of the A319 model.
▼ Spring Airlines A320-214 (B-1627) brushes past EVA Air after landing from Shanghai.
▼ Cathay Dragon A330-343, tail number B-LBE, takes off at a rapid pace. Is it because it’s not fully loaded?
▼ Peach Aviation A320-214 (JA804P) arrives in Taipei from Osaka.
▼ The EVA Air A330-300 is a spectacular sight head-on, closely followed by China Airlines 747-400 cargo plane.
▼ EVA Air A321-211 (B-16227) is en route to Sapporo. It’s a new addition from the second half of last year.
▼ Tigerair Taiwan A321-232 (B-50007) returns from Naha Airport. A four-hour budget flight can be a bit tough.
▼ Another EVA Air Hello Kitty themed plane (Hand-in-Hand), a B777-35ER (B-16703), is en route to Macau, probably due to the holiday and the need for a larger aircraft.
▼ China Airlines B737-8AL (B-18665) returns to Taiwan from Hiroshima. It’s a new aircraft, less than a year old.
▼ Xiamen Airlines old livery B737-85C (B-5533) returns from Fuzhou.
▼ EVA Air A330-302 (B-16336) is en route to Denpasar, India. It’s a one-year-old A333 (without the new livery).
▼ China Airlines A350-941 (B-18905) returns to Taiwan from Amsterdam the day before. I really want to try the A350.
▼ China Southern Airlines B737-86N (B-1980) is en route to Taiwan from Zhengzhou, arriving more than two hours late.
▼ Shandong Airlines B737-85N (B-5452) is en route to Taiwan from Jinan, also arriving late.
▼ EVA Air B777-36N(ER) (B-16728) is en route to Singapore. It’s a new aircraft, only a few months old.
▼ China Eastern A320-214 (B-6012) is en route to Taiwan from Hefei, another Chinese aircraft arriving late today.
▼ JinAir B737-8SH (HL8014) has a lively logo and takes off quickly.
▼ Eastar Jet is ready to return to Seoul.
▼ A Philippine Airlines A321-231 (RP-C9907) in transit stops in Taiwan before flying to Osaka.
▼ Cathay Pacific B777-367(ER) (B-KPS) takes off for Hong Kong. I think I took this flight the last time I went to Hong Kong.
▼ The Emirates A380 jumbo jet is only available in the afternoon.
▼ Finally, a picture of my beloved car to wrap things up. Thanks for taking me to Taoyuan to spot planes.
『Original Source：https://www.phototravel.tw/taoyuan-see-airplane/』
