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- last modified on December 22, 2022
Near the A-23 between Zaragoza and Valencia, Teruel airport is mostly known because of the boneyard created by Tarmac Aerosave in 2013. Also many Transaero still stored at Teruel with specials liveries. Teruel is also a maintenance airport and you can see many different aircraft from different companies (many Europeans).
There is no schedule traffic in and out of TEV. Aircraft that can be seen however, it changed a lot months after months (KLM, Lufthansa, Transaero, China Eastern, HiFly, GermanWings, Utair & Etihad Airways. Regular airlines for the maintenance, Air X Charter, Azul, Avianca & HiFly. No security issue at all.
This guide is written by Benjamin Barbe. Last change: December 2022 (all spots checked)
| Airport Information | |
| Runway | |
| 18/36 | 2,539m / 8,330 ft |
| Spotting Information | |
| Ladder | Necessary. |
| Car | Necessary. |
| Restrooms | Inside the Plata Office |
| Drinks/Food | Nothing around the Airport, you’ll have to drive towards Teruel city. |
| Hotels | There are at Teruel City. |
| Season | All year but we are recommanding to avoid summer times due to the high risk of having heat haze. |
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Spot #1 – North Side |
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| WHERE | Follow « Camino Viejo de Teruel » to the airport buildings. Drive westwards, pass the new installed hangar and park along the fence to photograph the stored planes from there. |
| WHAT | Static parked aircraft. |
| TIME | Early morning during sunrise or end of the day sunset but mostly backlit. |
| MISC. | A ladder is better but you can also use the rooftop of your car. The fence is lower and you can hold your camera above it if you have a movable display. Security know our hobbies so don’t worry if security guards are coming in. |
| FOCAL LENGTH | For the ex Utair 737, 8 to 10mm. For the parked aircraft, use a 100 to 400mm |
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Spot #2 – Airport Parking |
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| WHERE | This spot is located at the airport parking. There is a few parking lots available during working days. Just go in front of the fence to see the maintenance hangar with a maximum of 3 aircraft that can be parked simultaneously. You can see a different point of view from the boneyard but you have to move to the dirty parking on your right side. |
| WHAT | Maintenance and hangar parking. |
| TIME | Early morning during sunrise or end of the day sunset. |
| MISC. | You can walk along the fence without problems. |
| FOCAL LENGTH | 50mm for a A340, 100 for an A320. 300 to 600 for aircafts that parked far away. |
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Spot #3 – South side |
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| WHERE | As you may come to the airport, turn right here : 40°24’45.2″N 1°14’38.1″W and you should see a dirt road. Be careful if you have a limousine. You can walk to the fences but it may take you about 5 to 10min. |
| WHAT | The whole boneyard and the back of the aircraft. |
| TIME | From midday until sunset. |
| MISC. | Ladder necessary. |
| FOCAL LENGTH | 70mm for the closest planes, 400mm for the farthest. |
Visited on 21st of December, 2022 and there is a lot of new infrastructure. Spot 1 with the “Aeropuerto de Teruel” 737 is now covered with new maintenance hangers. I believe the 737 has been moved to the right of the terminal building (looking from a satellite view) and is barely viewable because there is another fence. You can still get shots from spot 1 but it will be further west and it is not as easy to go up to the fence (dirt roads etc.). Still…not a bad spot necessarily. Spots 2 and 3 haven’t changed at all although spot 3 takes some effort (as noted) to drive down the dirt road and get up close. Our rental car was totally fine but we drove slowly/carefully and it was worth it.
Okay thanks for the update. I moved the spot 1 westwards and changed the description. Some new photos would be nice too 🙂
-Julian
Latest update on spotting in Teruel:
Airport security drives along Spot 1 and stopped me taking pictures along the road. After short and friendly chat with them they mentioned that they assure the customers / airlines discretion by contract.
Nevertheless stopping the car at any position is tolerated to get the registrations.
Be aware that driving / walking to Spot 3 from the west after a rain shower might be swampy and you can get easily stuck with the car !
In case there is early morning fog it will disappear in the summertime usually around 9am.
I would also like to know if there are any restrictions on photography at this airport? I am considering a lengthy drive there to check it out!
We had no problems during our stay a couple of months ago. If you stay outside of the boundaries everything will be fine.
-Julian
Many thanks!!
Due to flight restriction I’ll have to drive from BCN to Badajoz to return home.
Think it’s worth a 100km+ drive to check the quarantined birds? Would be ok with cops/airport staff an hour or two of spotting right at dawn?