Spotters visiting the airports in Southern California (SoCal to the locals) now have a new web resource to help in their planning, which has been set up by Mark Ollier.

Mark moved to the area and has been inundated with requests for information from fellow enthusiasts, so has decided to set up this site to cover all of the information you’ll need when spotting at the various airports. To start with, he has covered Burbank,Van Nuys,Los Angeles and Long Beach but states “I will add more airports over the coming weeks.”

He adds: “On the site you will find spotting locations and daily movements for those airports. I will be adding SBS reports and a gallery. I have a forum which you need to sign up to access but on here I will keep everone updated with airport news, airline schedules, new build C-17′s and Gulfstream’s out of Long Beach, and the latest information on the storage areas of Mojave and Victorville.”

This site has fantastic potential as a lot of decent airports are situated close together and regularly make it onto the travel itineraries of spotters visiting the area.

The site can be found at http://www.socalspotters.net/

The excellent and well-known Krayzeekris website detailing hundreds of airports and airfields around the UK and the rest of the world has had a slight overhaul and a lot of new content added.

The site has also got a new name and address (although the old one works still): AircraftSpotting.co.uk

It’s looking good, and is a fantastic resource if you’re the kind who likes to hunt out tins on farm strips and hidden airfields. One great aspect is the lists of ‘nearby fields’ which helps you to make the most of any spotting trip to a new location.

I just came across a great website for the spotting community around New York City. It has guides and maps to all the main airports there, and many other interesting and useful bits of information.

The site is: www.nycaviation.com