#a321

11/22/25

Airbus A321 Spirit Airlines

Registration: N587NK Named: Spirit of Jamaica Type: A321-231 Engines: 2 × IAE V2533-A5 Serial Number: 2476 First flight: Mar 23, 2005

Spirit Airlines is based in Dania Beach, Florida, and has its origins as the Clippert Trucking Company, founded in 1964. It transitioned to become Charter One Airlines in 1983, providing vacation packages to destinations such as Las Vegas and the Bahamas. By 1992, the airline adopted the name Spirit Airlines and began offering scheduled flights between Detroit and Atlantic City. Since then, Spirit has significantly expanded its route network, emerging as one of North America's leading ultra-low-cost carriers.

One of Spirit Airlines' notable liveries was the "Silver Pixel" design, introduced in 2002. This livery featured a sophisticated, high-tech look with a silver and black pixel pattern on the fuselage. The design included twenty-one "bricks" – twenty in dark colors and one in red, arranged in a step-like fashion from bottom to top, giving the aircraft a sleek and modern appearance. Despite its elegance, this livery was short-lived and was replaced in 2007. The "Silver Pixel" design was deemed too costly and did not effectively represent Spirit's budget-friendly brand. The subsequent livery, known as "Birthday Cake", lasted for seven years, but that's a story for another time.

I’m gonna post more from my visit to the airport to see my dads friends. we get escort access to the ramp and hangars!

this really cool shot of a c-17 I got at the airport on Monday! with a plane in the background (im not good with the regional jets so idk what that is) there was also a presidential helicopter but I didn’t get a photo of it, left by the time we made it to the ramp

The C-32, often nicknamed the Air Force Two (though that name is subjective it’s just common for it) was also there and I had NO IDEA beforehand. There’s always some random plane in this spot and I was like HUH??????? the prez was in town so that’s why there’s so much military

Incoming a321 into the hangar! There was an a319 right next to it and we went up into the cockpit as always, didn’t rlly get pictures tho :(

pretty awesome 777-200! Among the biggest that come in here. unfortunately starting next year they end their service and will be replaced w the 787 :(

and finally, the cheese bus of the sky and aer lingus