Kingsville MOA

[ki5gf]

Lots of A-A over Kingsville range on 281.0500 today. Air intercepts usually with a pair of fighters against a single "bad guy". All are most likely out of NAS Corpus. Typical training day for Navy fighters.

 

[ColoradoRedlands]

Most likely T-45's out of NAS Kingsville. NAS Corpus Christi is loaded with trainers but all are turboprops of the T-6, T-44 and UC/TC-12 variety rather than jets.

Chris

 

[ki5gf]

Kingsville

Most likely T-45's out of NAS Kingsville. NAS Corpus Christi is loaded with trainers but all are turboprops of the T-6, T-44 and UC/TC-12 variety rather than jets.

Chris

Thanks, Chris. I hear activity out over the Kingsville MOA almost every day but have never been able to positively determine where the acft are actually from. Almost never hear any callsign prefixes. Just hear suffixes like "11" and "12" doing A-A stuff and sometimes doing ground attack activity possibly at the Tilden range. Also often hear calls like "31" "32" "71" and "72" etc (always pairs) doing A-R training in the same area on the same freq (281.0500).

 

[ColoradoRedlands]

There are 5 KINGSVILLE MOA's that are scheduled by CNATRA at Corpus Christi. I'm sure the Kingsville based T-45's have the highest priority of use there, but technically any military unit can ask to be scheduled there as time permits.

The T-45 is the last stop in the training command before graduating and moving on to the "real" fighters of the USN & USMC. The students first shot at landing on a carrier deck comes while flying the T-45. Lots of fun scary stuff to be done in those training units and they need lots of airspace to do it in.