Mid-Atlantic (and beyond) MilAir 2025

[Mark]

1715 local RCH-296 C-17 #10-0215 30 min inbound call from Germany with message for Andrews.
33 SOB with 19 aeromed patients,req Customs,Fork lift for baggage pallet,etc.
Rare you see late model Charleston C-17 doing med evac mission.
Normally a Friday mission and lately was being done by Tennessee ANG C-17's.

 

[TerryPavlick]

I live in this county, people are overwhemled with concern about why they were so low, and shock of the military flying airplanes, as if they never seen that happen before. Did anyone happen to get callsigns or hear them?

would have been CASTL62 flight (they generally do air/air on 343.000)

 

[RaleighGuy]

Correct - its the immigration portion that may need paying attention to considering the current issues. I am not sure how they will transport immigration prisoners (from the Federal system) since the normal deportation aircraft do not have the accommodations like the JPATS aircraft are equipped with.....

OT - Appears the first deportation flight is scheduled to leave tonight from KBIF to MGGT (Guatemala City, Guatemala) aboard 06-6163 a C-17 being used by DHS/ICE.

 

[RaleighGuy]

POTUS TFR issued for Miami Jan 25 @ 1800 to Jan 28 @ 2000

5/6252 NOTAM Details

 

[Mark]

OT - Appears the first deportation flight is scheduled to leave tonight from KBIF to MGGT (Guatemala City, Guatemala) aboard 06-6163 a C-17 being used by DHS/ICE.

Noticed his Acars mission code changed from 101BP Border Patrol to 101RP which I assume is Repatriate flight code.
Earlier saw BBQ flight from Arizona to Mexico City.

Speaking of low flyers in Pennsylvania Harrisburg Pa ANG has 3 of their MC-130J's up tonight inbound from the North.
Heard some weak inbound coms on their 395.100 CP.
08-6206
21-5973
21-5965

 

[Mark]

OT: PR KBQN airport MQ-9 Reaper.. Don't see many of these on vids but this one recently down in the PR
taxied out N917LG DHS drone and did engine runup but then departed runway back to the barn.. Large wingspan on these birds.
Strange to see for sure.. Assume fuel tank hanging down underneath? I can just hear tower say taxi down runway and exit on Bravo.
Noisy prop bird for sure

 

[N4TX]

Whiter House press office posted a picture of expellees lined up and walking up the ramp of a C-17. Didn't say where the photo was taken or where the aircraft was going. Fox says the photo was taken at Fort Bliss and that the plane was going to Guatemala.

CBP announces two days ago that 5,400 people currently in their custody would be departing by C-17 and C-130.

 

[RaleighGuy]

OT - Appears the first deportation flight is scheduled to leave tonight from KBIF to MGGT (Guatemala City, Guatemala) aboard 06-6163 a C-17 being used by DHS/ICE.

Whiter House press office posted a picture of expellees lined up and walking up the ramp of a C-17. Didn't say where the photo was taken or where the aircraft was going. Fox says the photo was taken at Fort Bliss and that the plane was going to Guatemala.

CBP announces two days ago that 5,400 people currently in their custody would be departing by C-17 and C-130.

So you are saying my post was correct? Also, 99-0060 AE0806 C17 is currently on a dump and run deportation trip in Latin America as well.

 

[RaleighGuy]

ADVICxx callsign for CAP today, 09-0018 appears to be SAM47 headed to KTYS, and 92-9000 should be AF1 headed to AVL - LAX and LAS for overnight, before going to MIA tomorrow.

AF1 departed 0940
SAM47 in the air 0945

 

[Mark]

ADVICxx callsign for CAP today, 09-0018 appears to be SAM47 headed to KTYS, and 92-9000 should be AF1 headed to AVL - LAX and LAS for overnight, before going to MIA tomorrow.

AF1 departed 0940am

Saw a SENTRY-27 E-3 headed that way as usually needed for low level radar coverage in the Hills of Western NC..
Potus short stop of only about 2 hours planned before heading West.Sentry must have turned off his ADSB.

 

[TerryPavlick]

Saw a SENTRY-27 E-3 headed that way as usually needed for low level radar coverage in the Hills of Western NC..
Potus short stop of only about 2 hours planned before heading West.Sentry must have turned off his ADSB.

was watching the reply of both SENTRY25 and SENTRY26, they both pop on and off visibility. I am thinking more of a coverage or software issue with the website versus the aircraft themselves. The one over Louisiana keeps blinking on and off in the same orbit.

 

[Mark]

OT: Beluga freight grounded.. Assume they will still do their own specialty Airbus trips,just no outside cargo contracts.

MSN

Maybe some new targets for local A-10's and F-16's up at Fort Indiantown.. McGuire Marine chopper pitched in as well

Marines, Air Force move Stryker vehicles to Fort Indiantown Gap impact area

A Marine CH-53 Super Stallion helicopter and a team of Air Force sling-load specialists air lifted eight decommissioned Army Stryker vehicles to Fort Indiantown Gap's impact area Jan. 22.

www.dvidshub.net

 

[Mark]

FAA Flight Check plane N70 FLC70 BE-30 King Air out of A/C with Dover apch 132.425 will be doing various approaches at Dover
some as low as 50 feet down the runway and miles away South of runways for ILS checks etc.

 

[RaleighGuy]

AF1 taxi at AVL departing for LAX

VIP fleet 99-0004 SAM894 departed ADW unknown who.

 

[Mark]

AF1 taxi at AVL departing for LAX

VIP fleet 99-0004 SAM894 departed ADW unknown who.

Backup 09-0018 now turning SW into Texas. Now seems more westbound.
Maybe was just taking a different route Acars has enroute KDMA.
SAM-894 shows destination KLAX.. Someone from WH joining up or another backup?
E-4B METZ-66 #75-0125 also joining the show in California. Thats normal move for Potus.

 

[RaleighGuy]

Backup 09-0018 now turning SW into Texas. Now seems more westbound.
Maybe was just taking a different route Acars has enroute KDMA.
SAM-894 shows destination KLAX.. Someone from WH joining up or another backup?
E-4B METZ-66 #75-0125 also joining the show in California. Thats normal move for Potus.

Was being followed by 79-0002 E3TF, doubt SAM849 is backup as it is from VIP fleet not POTUS fleet, figure some department Sec'y going out there.

 

[Mark]

Was being followed by 79-0002 E3TF, doubt SAM849 is backup as it is from VIP fleet not POTUS fleet, figure some department Sec'y going out there.

Longshot mission First Lady wants to skip Vegas stop and go back to Florida? Lol

 

[RaleighGuy]

POTUS departing ADW to AVL, Marine One Air Force 1

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[RaleighGuy]

Longshot mission First Lady wants to skip Vegas stop and go back to Florida? Lol

@Mark for the win, 99-0004 turning into Exec1F tonight, guess FLOTUS skipping Vegas, but no word on where it is going (yet). FYI 99-0004 turns into AF2 on Jan 27th.

 

[Mark]

@Mark for the win, 99-0004 turning into Exec1F tonight, guess FLOTUS skipping Vegas, but no word on where it is going (yet). FYI 99-0004 turns into AF2 on Jan 27th.

The old saying that even a blind squirrel finds a nut sometimes

LAX airport u tube guys say they will be live when AF-1 departs LAX supposedly around 6PM Pac time
but Trump meeting still going on in Palisades so prob a bit later.
Saw TBIRD-14 C-17 earlier today out of Vegas to Travis. I think their next show is Daytona 500 in mid Feb.