Mid-Atlantic MilAir 2025

[Waltz41]

1500- Tabor 24 working Raven Ops (275.7) w/acft status reports. Tabors also on 266.6. Advises they are 30 mins out.

A little bit late but here's a few shots of the TABOR flight landing at MTN on Saturday. I've been waiting on these guys since beginning of October when they were originally due home. The first cell of six came back mid November, but four went straight to Selfridge and then 2 apparently did land at MTN, but no one could ever confirm. Someone linked the article about how these were in Italy since then with maintenance issues. Anyways...enjoy a few pics. Oh...and btw....two of the TABOR flight diverted to Halifax on Saturday (1 MI 1 MD tail)!

 

[Mark]

1835 - ZOMBIE99 KC-46 21-46088 still orbiting east of McGuire at 3,500ft. Been in that low hold since 1435 local. I’m sure the tanks were filled before it flew out to Rickenbacker for Alert duty a few days ago. That’s a lot of fuel to burn off before being able to land.

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Rgr that as 99 was not needed so still loaded up with fuel.. Seems a waste that they couldn't launch a near empty tanker
locally to take some of that fuel offload and save time and fuel but guess they know what they are doing.
This seems though kind of rare in length of time orbiting like that.

 

[Mark]

AMATO-40 flight of two McGuire KC-46's talking to JEDI-32 C-17 on McGuire CP freq 237.150
AMATO-40 says A/R freq will be 276.500 (AR-216 freq) . Res tonight on AR-220 in Western Pa at 0130z-0300z.

 

[apex31]

AMATO-40 flight of two McGuire KC-46's talking to JEDI-32 C-17 on McGuire CP freq 237.150
AMATO-40 says A/R freq will be 276.500 (AR-216 freq) . Res tonight on AR-220 in Western Pa at 0130z-0300z.

2217 - JEDI32 with 30min out call 237.150. Alpha-1, req parking.

AMATO47 landing A-1, req crew trans for five. Change of plans, landing full stop so will be ahead of schedule.

 

[HM1529]

Both Amatos and the Jedi passed directly over me while I was driving earlier tonight. It was the two lower planes that caught my eye as they were in a close formation when I saw them. When i pulled up ADS-B at a red light, they were not visible, but the Jedi flight was. At the time, I joked with my passenger that we had finally seen some of the giant mystery drones everybody gets wound up about. The return path was basically right over my house and I could see the two Amatos coming towards me in the distance out the window. At that time, they showed up on ADS-B along with the Jedi who was on a slightly different course so I was able to figure what I'd seen earlier.

 

[apex31]

Both Amatos and the Jedi passed directly over me while I was driving earlier tonight. It was the two lower planes that caught my eye as they were in a close formation when I saw them. When i pulled up ADS-B at a red light, they were not visible, but the Jedi flight was. At the time, I joked with my passenger that we had finally seen some of the giant mystery drones everybody gets wound up about. The return path was basically right over my house and I could see the two Amatos coming towards me in the distance out the window. At that time, they showed up on ADS-B along with the Jedi who was on a slightly different course so I was able to figure what I'd seen earlier.

Over the past few weeks across various sorties, I’ve noticed that sometimes on their RTB in close proximity, the trail jet(s) will go dark on ADSB until they get low and increase separation. In this case, it’s specifically when the tankers are working out west, Pittsburgh area etc. I’m sure it has something to do with trying to keep traffics picture clear for ATC around the busier areas.

 

[RaleighGuy]

POTUS first trip planned for this Friday shaping up, RCH3248 06-6166 dropping helo at KAVL and FAMUS89 98-0054 dropped one at KLSV. 92-9000 has flight plans for ADW-AVL-LAX and LAS-PBI-ADW.