A Brief Guide to Plane Spotting at Taipei Songshan TSA

Back in March 2011 I had the pleasure to visit Taipei's mostly Domestic airport or Songshan (TSA). For nearly two hours there was a steady precession of airliners from a variety of Taiwanese airlines, along with a planes few from Japan and the Taiwanese Air Force. 

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Great views are possible from the Runway 10 End of the airport. This is the predominant runway used at TSA. "Lane 180" is about a 5 minute taxi ride from TSA's terminals and is well served and within walking distance of the Metro system. Walking down Longjuang Road, Turn left and follow the small road/lane that leads to Lane 180. When you arrive, expect few issues with Police, but also some locals a mix of spotters with camera's and those just interested to see what your doing! The undershoot to the runway appears to be an allotment / rubbish dump? Along the side of the runway great views are possible, but these are south facing. After midday is best at the end of the runway for sun placement.

Aircraft range from Islanders, to Dash 8-300's to B737 types. In additionl some A330's are possible from Eva Air and China Airlines. For most pictures a small 18-100mm lens will do the job.

An ERJ-190 approaches, seen from Minzu East Road

EVA Air A330-200 on short final over the allotment, with the landing lights clearly visable

Local Spotters and visitors on Bikes clamour for a picture as an Eva Air A330-200 lands on Runway 10

Special Liveries also appear, such as on B-16829 of Mandarin Airlines ERJ-190

1315, a C-130 of the Taiwanese Air Force shares the runway with Civil Movements

B-15233 is a Dash 8-300 of Uni Air operating domestic flights

From the other side of the runway, Taipei 101 can frame your pictures.