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-Lincoln Municipal is one of two major airports in Nebraska (Eppley Airfield in Omaha being the other).  United Express, and Northwest Airlink are the only two commercial carriers, after American Eagle pulled service (the route previously served by TWA mainline).  UAX serves ORD and DEN, and NWA serves MSP, DTW, and MEM.  Since the pullout of American, traffic has been almost exclusively CRJ-200's, with Mesaba very very occasionally flying in a Saab 340B, and slightly more frequently an Avro RJ-85.  United also occasionally flies in a ZW BAE-146.  Recently, however, United started flying one of the daily ORD frequencies with a CRJ-700.
+Lincoln Municipal is one of two major airports in Nebraska (Eppley Airfield in Omaha being the other).  United Express, and Northwest Airlink are the only two commercial carriers, after American Eagle pulled service (the route previously served by TWA mainline).  UAX serves ORD and DEN, and NWA serves MSP, DTW, and MEM.  Since the pullout of American, traffic has been almost exclusively CRJ-200's, with Mesaba very very occasionally flying in a Mesaba Saab 340B or Avro RJ-85.  United also occasionally flies in an Air Wisconsin BAE-146, and somewhat less frequently, a SkyWest CRJ-700.
+Also, during college football season, we'll occasionally get mainline aircraft in here for team charters.  If its for the Huskers, it'll be United or Northwest (usually a B752 for the team, I think), and if its an away team coming into town, it could really be anything.  We've seem everything from a Sun Country DC-10, to a Pan Am (Boston-Maine Airways) 727.  Also, depending on the bowl game the Huskers are in, we'll also get charter operations for the fans going on, as well.  It'll depend on the game, but when the team went to the Rose Bowl in January 2001, we had 2 United B744's here, which was definitely a sight to see.
+LNK also gets a fair bit of Biz-jet activity, as Duncan Aviation is based here.  Typical fare comprised mainly of Dassault Falcons (usually the various three-holers), but occasionally, we'll get an oddity in here, like a Fokker F-28, and I once saw a Lauda Air 737 here, but with a U.S. registration, and missing its titles.  There are also still a number of people who house their GA aircraft here, but with the shutdown of the airport's only flight school, Silverhawk Aviation, piston traffic has been slow.
 ==Official Spotting Locations==
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 ===Parking Garage===
-I've never actually spotted here, but given the proximity to Rwy 18/36, and the commercial ramp (and, to a lesser extent, the Nebraska ANG ramp), I'd imagine that some decent shots of morning activity on the runway (and ANG ramp), and evening activity on the commercial ramp would be available with a telephoto zoom.
+This location is pretty decent for shooting RJ's moving on the main ramp, but you'll have to get in your shots between the light poles.  It also has good views of the southern portion of the middle of 18/36, and decent views of the approach end of 32.  CRJ's in all of these locations can pretty much be covered with a long telephoto zoom (something going out to 300mm or so) on a 1.6x DSLR.
 ==Locations to Avoid==