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21-0024 flew from Portland, Oregon PDX to Portland, Maine PSM today. Sounds fishy to me. :)

Yesterday they shot several instrument approaches to a missed approach or touch and go at Billings, Montana. The callsign sounded like CLONE 27.

Today they stayed in the pattern at Fort Wayne, Indiana using a new callsign of ARISE 43 and did some landings. Probably not testing the aircraft but getting several pilots current and qualified in the 737 is my guess.

Hmmm. Five-letter callsigns that change daily. Haven't we seen that somewhere else before? The E-6s maybe? Perhaps this isn't an ordinary C-40/BBJ conversion.

See: The Mysterious Case Of The Air Force's New Strangely Modified 737 With A Puzzling Past (thedrive.com)

I'll attach an edited clip of the LiveATC feeds for BIL and FWA. See if you hear the same callsigns.




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I hear Clone 27 & Arise 43 as well.

You bring up and interesting point. The Navy's been talking about the replacing the E-6 airframe for quite awhile. Maybe after their experience with the P-8 the 737 airframe might be under consideration.
 

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Any idea who RCH957 is dragging?
Sure circled or tracked around Wisconsin area..
I posted the other day a weeklong ANG exercise coming up in Wisconsin. Kansas ANG tanker #59-1507..
Maybe picking up a few VT F-35's to take back West? Exercise does say ANG F-35's as well. Maybe circled due to wx.
Haven't seen any Langley F-22's head that way yet also.
Annual Northern Lightning Exercise Returns to Volk Field > National Guard > Guard News - The National Guard
 
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POTUS to KY tomorrow departing from Dover...

8:30 AM THE PRESIDENT and THE FIRST LADY depart Rehoboth Beach, Delaware en route Dover Air Force Base
9:05 AM THE PRESIDENT and THE FIRST LADY depart Dover Air Force Base en route Lexington, Kentucky

10:45 AM THE PRESIDENT and THE FIRST LADY arrive Blue Grass Airport, Lexington, Kentucky
11:00 AM THE PRESIDENT and THE FIRST LADY depart Lexington, Kentucky en route Chavies, Kentucky
11:45 AM THE PRESIDENT and THE FIRST LADY arrive at Wendell H. Ford Airport Landing Zone, Chavies, Kentucky

3:25 PM THE PRESIDENT and THE FIRST LADY depart Chavies, Kentucky en route Lexington, Kentucky
4:20 PM THE PRESIDENT and THE FIRST LADY depart Lexington, Kentucky en route Joint Base Andrews

5:30 PM THE PRESIDENT and THE FIRST LADY arrive at Joint Base Andrews
5:50 PM THE PRESIDENT and THE FIRST LADY arrive at the White House South Lawn
 

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Bill
I hear Clone 27 & Arise 43 as well.

You bring up and interesting point. The Navy's been talking about the replacing the E-6 airframe for quite awhile. Maybe after their experience with the P-8 the 737 airframe might be under consideration.

It looks like the Navy is going back to the future with the EC-130J as the next TACAMO aircraft. However the E-6's ABNCP mission may be done by another aircraft in addition to the planned NAOC replacement for the E-4s. Is this 737 a potential Air Force Looking Glass platform testbed?

Obviously, time to come up with some more acronyms.

From an article in The Drive:

With the EC-130J TACAMO initially only being responsible for TACAMO, the implication here is that the new aircraft will be supplemental to the existing E-6B fleet, at least for some amount of time.

Full retirement of the E-6Bs would then require a substitute for the ABNCP mission, perhaps through further adapting the EC-130Js or fielding a new platform altogether. The latter might even signal that the ABNCP mission is handed over from the Navy to the Air Force.

Potentially, the Air Force’s Survivable Airborne Operations Center, which is being developed primarily as a replacement for the service's fleet of E-4B Nightwatch aircraft, also known as National Airborne Operations Centers (NAOC), could provide a follow-on for the ABNCP mission. However, from what we know so far, the Survivable Airborne Operations Center is mainly pitched as an E-4B successor. If that’s the case, and SAOC will be a 747-based platform as expected, it seems unlikely that the Air Force will want to acquire and operate a fleet of them that is similar to the size of the current 16-strong E-6B fleet. After all, the current E-4B fleet numbers just four aircraft. An inventory somewhere in between is possible though.

This Is Our First Look At The Navy’s Next 'Doomsday Plane,' The EC-130J TACAMO (thedrive.com)
 

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Any idea who RCH957 is dragging?
Hi, RCH957 wasn't dragging anything. He was on the way to Germany, but had APU problems. Circled to decide if they had to return to Forbes, or continue. They landed at Portsmouth hoping to solve the problem on the runway, and continue to destination. Looks like they failed, since they haven't departed yet.
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1343- Spad 12 & Spad 21 (F-22s 1st FW/94th FS, Joint Base Langley-Eustis VA) working ZDC Buena Vista (319.0)>ZDC Bucks Elbow (284.7). Both descending "expeditiously" from FL430 to FL290. Heading up to WI for exercise?

1409- Two unid acft (sound like F-22s) working ZDC Snow Hill (235.625)>ZDC Hopewell (323.225)>ZDC Green Bay (343.675) at FL390.
 
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