Originally posted by pacerr: Rather than searching for a specific aircraft, if you can reasonably predict its presence at a given airport you might click on that location and check Arrivals and Departures in the menu block. Those listing typically persist for hours.
I tried that on the airport sites, but they didn't list that freighter. The airport arrivals and departures don't typically list freighters, but sites like Flightradar do. I tried arrivals and departures for Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide and Perth. Thanks for the pointer to that feature of Flightradar. I hadn't used it that way for the airports themselves, only for looking at flights in the air.
Huh, looking at Canberra airport I see that Singapore airlines seems to have restarted their freighter flights again.
Quote: If the acft is low enough to be ID'ed/photographed it would be close to an airport.
Maybe I should clarify the camera feature - as far as I know, it uses the GPS and camera view with the transponder data to identify the plane, even though the camera image doesn't provide enough data. It's about the angles. I don't use the feature because I'm not sure how much phone network data it uses, and my monthly limit is low. In this case the freighter was at cruise altitude, probably on the way to Melbourne, but I couldn't find it on Flightradar arrival data for Melbourne. In any case, next time I'll check flight radar at the time, as I did for example last week when an unusual plane landed - from a Pacific island airline, so it must have been a repatriation flight.