Mid-Atlantic (and beyond) MilAir 2025

[Mark]

Looks like KC-46 MEDUSA-85 coming East towards Va Beach area with some chicks it picked up
near St Louis. You can see how it jogged North and dropped down to FL-260. Oceana F/18's from depot repair?
Kind of odd doing this at night. Maybe the broken F-22's Demo from West Coast airshow?

 

[RadioFreq]

Langley FF Demo F-22's (RAPTOR-1) had bad time at this past weekend's Miramar airshow.
On two days ended up cutting demo short and towing them back. Friday show never got off the ground.
Maybe the old demos are getting tired and use some newer F-22's?
Their next show isn't till Oct 11 in Louisiana so got time to get back here and fix them

The Langley F-22 Raptor Demo Team also had a rough time at EAA Oshkosh back in July 2025. Same scenario. Luckily the F/A-18E/F Rhino Demo, and the F-35 Demos pitched-in to fill the gaps.

 

[Mark]

1245- Drago 51 flt (4 X T-38s) on Flyover discrete (279.575). Also, A2A on 238.825. At 1308 w/ZDC Lexington (281.4) on way back to Langley. Also, working 7th FTS Ops (357.1)

1305- Scan 06 (CRJ-7 N806X) off BWI heading east. On Northrop discrete w/Base (123.225).

P-6 got your DRAGO-51 flyover at about 18:40 mark..

 

[xtremey]

Was out with P6 today catching em. Been trying to catch the blue special for a while now

 

[AJSpotsNJ]

TEAM55 (KC46, 21-46093) trying to get a hold of BEEF43 (C17, 04-4136) on 237.15

 

[mdmonitor]

Posted on another list. Interesting.

Beginning at the 1300z window the E6Bs became very active and remained so to the end of the UTC day. Spectacular in hindsight.

There were 7 known flights of E6Bs active at the same time:
6 flights visible on ADSB mapping sites.
1 flight was apparently Due Regard/dark to the mapping sites (TACAMO LANT as has been the recent case with the LANT missions).

There were restoral rebroadcast missions for LANT, PAC and the Gulf.
There were VLF broadcasts over all 3 bodies of water.

Two of the E6Bs conducted numerous data exchange comms on USN CHARLIE Window frequencies.

Two E6Bs out of OFFUTT and return to OFFUTT.
Two E6Bs out of TINKER and returned to TINKER.
One E6B out of TRAVIS to TINKER.
One E6B out of TRAVIS to the Pacific [TACAMO PAC.]
One E6B dark; perhaps out of PAX [TACAMO LANT].

 

[mdmonitor]

0850- Short xmission on ZDC Atlantic City (281.45). ADS-B showing Langley T-38 Bugsy 1 over ACY at FL270 heading northeast.

 

[Tech792]

0900L- Catching BUGSY T-38's on ZDC 363.0 currently over southern NJ, now heading west past Philly.

 

[mdmonitor]

0900L- Catching BUGSY T-38's on ZDC 363.0 currently over southern NJ, now heading west past Philly.

0915- Bugsy 1 over Baltimore heading southwest.

0925- Bugsy 1 over Richmond VA w/ZDC Flat Rock (235.625).

 

[Mark]

Overnight RCH-620 C-17 #06-6165 Dover to A/C then departed for PAED Elmendorf 0620z..Hmm.

 

[TristanC910]

BIG DOG-01 flight of 2 F-16s currently in the ACY Arm/De-Arm ramp contacting ACY Ground

10:03am EST BIG DOG-01 now holding short of RWY 13

10:09am EST BIG DOG-01 up from ACY contacting ACY Departure.

 

[TristanC910]

Overnight RCH-620 C-17 #06-6165 Dover to A/C then departed for PAED Elmendorf 0620z..Hmm.

Is the 177th FW possibly going back to Japan?

 

[jaymatt1978]

For the depature were they USING 327.125?

BIG DOG-01 flight of 2 F-16s currently in the ACY Arm/De-Arm ramp contacting ACY Ground

10:03am EST BIG DOG-01 now holding short of RWY 13

10:09am EST BIG DOG-01 up from ACY contacting ACY Departure.

 

[jaymatt1978]

1209 Navy Helicopter-- PINR813-- back at Cape May Airport (WWD) 122.7000

 

[TristanC910]

For the depature were they USING 327.125?

It was either 124.600 or 134.250, I honestly dont remember

 

[JetWash]

From a while ago, I remember someone posting about an “AR9” route that wasn’t listed anywhere. NOTAM posted today should clarify that:

10/019 ZWY AIRSPACE DUE TO A MILITARY STNR ALT RESERVATION, SEA POWER DEMONSTRATION, AR9 SHALL BE CLOSED FROM ORF TO ZIBUT INTERSECTION. THE FOLLOWING INTERNATIONAL ROUTE WILL BE IMPACTED : AR9 ALL FLIGHTS WITH ROUTES THAT WOULD NORMALLY TRANSIT THIS AREA SHALL USE THE FOLLOWING REROUTES: AR9 USE ORF J121 SIE B24 LYNUS AND REVERSE. SFC-UNL DLY 1500-2100 2510031500-2510042100

 

[RaleighGuy]

VP TFR 5/4870 has been issued for the Thurmont, MD (Camp David) area on October 3-5, 2025.

View the TFR NOTAM text on the FAA TFR page

 

[TristanC910]

Looks like the BIG DOG-01 flight was a fini flight.
He was tearing up the pattern on some of his approaches in full burner

 

[Mark]

I think those Langley T-38's had a blast departing Pease yesterday.. a couple cool runway skimming
to unrestricted climb outs I don't think T-38's have horsepower to do straight vertical departures but close enough.

 

[Mark]

Looks like the BIG DOG-01 flight was a fini flight.
He was tearing up the pattern on some of his approaches in full burner

Nice! Yeah looks like Fam members etc also out on the flight line for a fini flight