Boeing 737 MAX 9 Test Flight! (Alaska Airlines) - Touch and Goes at Portland Airport (PDX)

Another good day of spotting at PDX with a MAX 9 for Alaska Airlines today! This airframe is N913AK. Would have loved to see a regular takeoff and landing or maybe a go-around, but touch and goes work just fine.
Flight: AS9910 (SEA-PDX)

[@OtakuAviators]

Very beautiful! That Alaska Air livery is also really one of a kind👍🏻😍

[@PortlandAviation]

Thank you!

[@nybotor1]

That very cool you got to see a MAX performing so many touch and gos! This is one of the reasons I'd love to go to Portland or Boeing Field.

[@PortlandAviation]

Thanks! Indeed, at Boeing Field there's the added benefit of pretty frequent 777X test flights at the moment. I'm hoping to head up there sometime in the future for that reason.

[@737MaxPilot]

No touch & goes at Boeing Field....you need to go to Grant County INT. in Moses Lake.

[@RuiPlaneSpotter]

Thank you!

[@trenton.tchannel1810]

Recently flew on an Alaska Airlines 737-9 and one of the most comfortable flights I’ve been on. I love how they have theirs configured. I flew on a United 737-9 and was cramped like hell since I’m 6’4. Definitely a good airline to fly.

[@RdmassRdmass]

Beautiful!!!

[@PortlandAviation]

Thanks!

[@matthiashaenni]

Great to see the Boeing 737 MAX back up in the skies! Nice video!

[@PortlandAviation]

Indeed! Thanks!

[@GregsWorkshopOregon]

I saw that one going round and round today, everything must have worked ok

[@Lwhs995]

Nice catching!Thanks your doing that!

[@PortlandAviation]

Thanks!

[@captainmisturini1705]

what a beautiful view!

[@PortlandAviation]

Thanks!

[@MadeiraAirport]

Really beautiful catch, great video mate!

[@PortlandAviation]

Thanks!

[@MadeiraAirport]

@@PortlandAviation You welcome!

[@jadonloveless3121]

Lots of specials today it sounds like. I saw on FlightRadar a 767 from Paine (BOE651) and not long ago I saw a Delta Airlines 752 (N666DN) from Orlando.

[@PortlandAviation]

Yep, very much so. Amazing how PDX can sometimes go weeks without much out of the ordinary happening, then suddenly there's 3 or more specials in one day.

[@buybygb]

Great catch! Thought I heard about this guy coming to town lol

[@PortlandAviation]

Thanks! Happy I was able to catch it.

[@mariqdreemurr]

Very nice lands🎉

[@philipbrailey]

Interesting. Thanks for posting.

[@PortlandAviation]

Glad you enjoyed!

[@BFFAvgeek15]

Can't wait to see these in action! :)

[@PortlandAviation]

Agreed, though at the moment the fact that people died to make it safe leaves me with a bit of a bitter taste. I'll need to be sweetened up to it before I can really say that I like it.

[@BFFAvgeek15]

@@PortlandAviation Well yeah, same here. I’d give it at least two or three years before I’d fly on it. I still like the MAX. 👍

[@KushalDave]

Nice video mate

[@oneworldaviation3]

really nice

[@PortlandAviation]

Thanks!

[@logansaviationadventures]

awesome video. I wanna get on the inaugural passenger flight

[@PortlandAviation]

Thanks!

[@logansaviationadventures]

@@PortlandAviation how loud are those maxes compared to the ng there supposed to be like way quieter but I’ve never heard one before

[@PortlandAviation]

@@logansaviationadventures They're definitely a hell of a lot quieter. Depending on the amount of background noise there is near you, you might not even hear one passing over.

[@logansaviationadventures]

@@PortlandAviation gotta say I’m gonna miss the classic buzz from the ng but good for Boeing new innovation is always good

[@pdxspotter1057]

I was at work when this happened cool to see first hand

[@madeiraaviacaocomercial]

Nice video my friend

[@PortlandAviation]

Thanks!

[@STRspotting]

amazing video :)

[@PortlandAviation]

Thanks!

[@therealaviationnathan]

I saw this plane I was watching it takeoff and land on the 7th floor of the Short Term

[@PortlandAviation]

Nice!

[@dianedougwhale7260]

How the--do you get to the terminal HE'S NOT STOPPING!! My friends are waiting--you don't have any friends thank GOD for that !

[@tomatosoupwoo]

What?

[@Miftahjaya96]

rare moment....

[@AgeCobra]

Very nce.

[@h2oaviation]

Nice!

[@PortlandAviation]

Thank you!

[@AirshipsAviation11]

My home airport is Pdx

[@PortlandAviation]

Cool!

[@dianedougwhale7260]

It was going round and round because the inexperienced pilot couldn't work out how to stop the bloody thing !!

[@ethanhehn8751]

noice

[@dianedougwhale7260]

How did IT take orf and land on the 7th. floor ?

[@PattyKuluCakes]

I’m curious, what’s the reason for touch and go? Are they testing the landing and takeoffs?

[@PortlandAviation]

Probably yeah, as well as training purposes.

[@737MaxPilot]

Seems as though they’re just putting time on it...maybe to prep for entry into service. It’s a very expensive way to practice, since Alaska owns their own Max simulator.

[@GregsWorkshopOregon]

Did you get the dreamliner that came in in the morning?

[@PortlandAviation]

I'm not aware of any Dreamliner that came in, but there was an unpainted 767 for FedEx. I narrowly missed it, unfortunately.

[@GregsWorkshopOregon]

@@PortlandAviation Ah, maybe that was it. It was primer green, I assumed it was a 787

[@PortlandAviation]

@@GregsWorkshopOregon The 787s are always white for some reason, not sure why.

[@737MaxPilot]

@@PortlandAviation due to the composite build...no need to coat them with the green stuff.

[@Airliner]

is it just one so far?

[@PortlandAviation]

As far as I know

[@a.alfaifi1985]

737 max

[@ethansaviation2672]

Yeah we know, it's in the god damn title you fool.