2020 Aviation Week Photo Contest Editor's Picks: Commercial & COVID-19

A brand-new Silver Airways ATR 42-500, photographed on the ramp at Orlando International Airport.

The silhouettes of the Portland International Airport control tower and terminal building are reflected in a puddle on a foggy morning. In the distance, a Boeing 737 is visible on final approach to Runway 28L.

I had only one chance to capture this long-exposure image of an Air Canada jet roaring overhead at the end of Runway 27 of Victoria International Airport in British Columbia, as it was the last flight of the night.

This photo captures 119 Boeing 737 MAX aircraft parked at Moses Lake, Washington, nearly half of the aircraft that were parked there.

At Portland International Airport, an aft view of the right engine of a newly painted Gulf Air Boeing 787. Boeing maintains an aircraft paint facility at the airport.

A Siller Helicopter is backlit as it drops water on the Bobcat Fire in California’s Antelope Canyon.

An American Airlines passenger jet passes in front of the nearly full Moon. I took the photo in the early evening from my driveway on March 7, 2020.

Seemingly gliding over the sands in Marana, Arizona, like an aerial version of the mythical ghost ship Mary Celeste, this stripped-out Boeing 767 sits up on wooden blocks, awaiting her fate with the scrapper’s maw.

A UPS Boeing 767-300 at Sioux Falls Regional Airport in South Dakota.

A row of Alaska Airlines Boeing 737s sit idle at Portland International Airport due to the COVID-19 crisis. The carrier’s aircraft are on Runway 3/21, which was closed by airport management to accommodate airline needs for long-term aircraft storage.

The last British Airways (BA) 747-400 departs Heathrow International Airport on Oct. 8, a very overcast day. BA is retiring its 747s as a result of the pandemic.

The Blue Angels and Thunderbirds fly over City Hall in downtown Philadelphia to salute America’s health care workers during the COVID-19 epidemic.