An Afternoon at Newark Airport in 1997 

Holy cow! L-1011s, DC-10s, DC-9-10/30s, 727s, Fokker 100s, 737-200s! Love it all! Miss that great stuff!

When the old iconic control tower was still in operation. Now they have an tall unimaginative cement stick

2:20 - This is adorable. They're taxiing in tandem, like the Continental 757 was like "okay we gonna do this or what boys".

The Smoke at 4:06 and 5:27 is so much foreshadowing it hurts.

I miss the 90s so much. I would do anything to go back.

Watching this video now makes it seem like it was 40 years ago. Tri-holers everywhere. Great airlines like Midwest Ex, and Midway almost gone from memory, by now. I remember being 19-20 in college, along with..smoky bars, email labs, Sheryl Crow, Alanis Morrisette and Metallica on MTV.

I remember now, Newark used to be a major Continental hub! I loved Continental, wish they were still around.

Anyone who remembers Flight 93 that depart out of Newark and Flight 77 depart out of Dulles and Flight 11 and Flight 175 that both of them depart out of Boston

That 747 is still queen of the skies! 👍👍

7:18 Bet anyone knew on the planes they were going to merge 13 years later. The nostalgia.😭

This was the time when flying still was fun!"A variety of aircraft and airlines as far as the eye can see !

Aer Lingus Tristar oh my! I was born in 1997 so I never got to see them.

Love the skyline with the wtc in the background

continental before united slapped their name on plane lol good to see a old united rainbow livery even though it changed to the battlestar gray scheme

The world of yesteryear... I miss those old liveries and airliners of the 90's... L 1011's, DC-10's, 727's... couldn't get any better

Newark airport used to have more variety in aircraft and airlines and I wish a was alive at that time to see it.

Remember tons of Continental DC10s at Newark through the late 90s. I think the Concorde mishap hastened their retirement. Midway did not fly again after 9/11.

It used to be the Continental hub at the EWR airport and now’s the United hub.

Forgot Aer Lingus had L1011s for a short time. Beautiful bird in beautiful green!

Almost all planes in this video are in the graveyard now with the exception of the CO, DL, and maybe the UA 757s. This feels like an "all my friends are dead" scenario O_O

I wish I could go back in time and see this again

Great footage! All those classic airliners and liveries combined with huge queues is a total pleasure to watch!

Northwest, TWA, Continental, all gone...

Man, when aircraft varieties ruled!

WOW ! I'm jealous of the vantage-point you had filming this, on the roof of the old PA Admin building ! I worked EWR from '86 -'01, starting with PeoplExpress then Continental,transferring to IAH in April of '01. Thanks for posting, I had a lot of fun at EWR.

sigh, i wish American Airlines would do the same thing like America West, paint some airlines with livery's

aer lingus 1-1011? never knew they had one! pretty!

8:48 is my favorite plane in this montage

That noise was an eargasm . Nice vid. Thanks for posting.

This footage begins at 1997-08-28T14:45-04:00

Great video, Bill! Thank you for sharing! -Chasen

They did, see revised description for links.

great stuff,thanks

Classic aviation :)

Amazing classic video documentary mate 👏 👏 👏 enjoyed

My hometown airport

Reminds me of a flight I was on in May 2017 going to Newark. United 757-200 from LAX to EWR. Sunset landing. Interesting thing: flight number was UA 1997. Just like this video.

Great footage! But what is that smoke at 4:06?

I saw a continental DC-10 with a non-American Reg. Anyone know where that plane came from?

7:38 i miss Kiwi so much

Ahhh, my ole stomping grounds. What no BAC 1-11s? We both know there was at least one based there. Maybe not in 97 though. Great video!!

Didn’t realize Western Pacific and America West came this far east.

Outstanding Video 👍👍. Subscribed

6:42 Ex-AA 727 in the background there?

PFT alive and well in 97.

5:08 the EMB-120 I was a FA for Continental Express May 1997-August 1998 however was based in Cleveland. Wasn’t crazy about the 120

yep..some of the olden days were good!...its what an aircraft is suppose to do...make lots of noise..nothing like it!..thank you Mr hough

Video looks very accurate. I used to work there in 1997-98. At least this video did get a few of the ATR's but still missed the A-340's. The 727's would sometimes climb out much lower over the employee parking lot and set off some of the car alarms with its very loud "whisperjet" turbojet engines. So why is everyone keeping the population reduction secrete?

The fact that the World Trade Center can be seen in the background

From the roof of the old admin building, now demolished.

I wonder l-1011 are just as loud as 727 like a military jets?

wat happen i seen the fire department and i seen smoke over by the part?

5:27 :(

i see so many airlines in this video at ewr i never seen b4 y did they stop coming to the brick city why?

Old Northwest Airlines

miss NWA in sky

Oppc

Back before stupid RJ's were everywhere.