Mid-Atlantic (and beyond) MilAir 2025

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Navy has signed up for more contract work from ATAC aircraft :)

Seems second wave F-35B's is on again as GOLD-62 #59-1453 gonna meet Pa KC-135 GOLD 61 #59-1460 again?
Same two tankers as yesterday.I think again they are just getting them down to maybe Key West as PR a thousand miles from Key West
and not enough tankers to get all these guys there in one shot. I haven't seen any confirmed sightings though in the Keys or PR yet.
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Acars also has a GOLD-64 KC-46 #21-46094 later going from Travis to St Croix TISX.
OK now see how they got to PR with just 2 tankers.. Actually had 3 tankers :)
Today GOLD-63 #58-0094 out of MacDill met GOLD-62 and chicks off Tampa Coast then
GOLD-63 took them down and across Everglades out over Miami and into Atlantic South bound
GOLD-63 was on Live ATC Bimini 126.325 last told push Miami 133.850.

See a couple JAZZ New Orleans F-15C models on the Andrews vid link parked for display. Thanks Dutch :)
 
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Talked with the A-10 pilot today. He says they currently have 5 planes left. By the 23rd of this month they will all be gone. The remaining are being transferred to another National Guard unit (I can't remember which state he said). The rumor of them transferring to Joint Base Andrews to fly the F-16C isn't happening.

The A-10 arriving the 22nd to Hagerstown will be having the gun removed. Possibly the entire thing, as well as having the engines removed.
 

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GOLD-64 from Travis #21-46094 came thru later near Miami at FL-280 so maybe for stragglers?
enroute TISX.
In front of GOLD-64 were 2 other Travis KC-46's. no destination showing but same course.
ROVIN13 #22-46102
ROVIN12 #22-46104

Prob both to TISX as have seen that before in the PR where tankers stage at St Croix right next door which has more room
and the fighters are in PR. Both Travis KC-46's have that new plane smell 🤣🤣

Don't see any tail markings on the F-35B's but one nose shows as 589.Possible 169589 from VMFA-211 The Wake Islanders?
Seems the former 2 letter tails codes CF have been scrubbed.
 
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Joint Base Andrews Air Show 2025 live feed:​

Beautiful weather brought out the crowds with full capacity and shut down later arriving folks.
The live video was sort of annoying with too many crowd shots then aircraft flying.. Kind of weird.

 
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0915- ADS-B showing E-4B # 74-0787 at FL310 just passing south of Pittsburgh heading east. At 0930 passed over Harrisburg and looks to be heading back west. Out for a little Sunday joyride? Heard him w/ZNY Big Flat (133.475)>ZDC Hagerstown (134.15). Call is ???-25 (can't hear it clearly).
 
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Beautiful weather brought out the crowds with full capacity and shut down later arriving folks.
The live video was sort of annoying with too many crowd shots then aircraft flying.. Kind of weird.

Yesterday as a disaster for ADW:

Security at the stadium was terribly slow and the bus transportation was even worse. Then the long wait to disembark followed by the lack of efficiency in getting people off the airfield. Comes as no surprise they stopped as we got to ADW at 1230 after an 1.5H at the stadium. The times i been to the airshow I have never seen it this dysfunctional.
 

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Yesterday as a disaster for ADW:

Security at the stadium was terribly slow and the bus transportation was even worse. Then the long wait to disembark followed by the lack of efficiency in getting people off the airfield. Comes as no surprise they stopped as we got to ADW at 1230 after an 1.5H at the stadium. The times i been to the airshow I have never seen it this dysfunctional.

Right around the time you reached JBA I received a media advisory stating "there is currently a 2-hour wait for the shuttle. While buses will still load, they will not run after 1p.m." So the wait had grown from your 90-minute ordeal. No additional vehicles were being allowed into the stadium lots at that point.

Beautiful weather and Thunderbirds = logistical problems.
 

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Right around the time you reached JBA I received a media advisory stating "there is currently a 2-hour wait for the shuttle. While buses will still load, they will not run after 1p.m." So the wait had grown from your 90-minute ordeal. No additional vehicles were being allowed into the stadium lots at that point.

Beautiful weather and Thunderbirds = logistical problems.
Thats a shame.. Andrews in past was model for airshows as had lots of National Guard screening stations
and lots of big charter busses then seems cost cutting started in 20 teens with Harford County school busses etc and less
busses but still was pretty good...
 
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