Mid-Atlantic MilAir 2023

[Mark]

For those who have an interest in helos --

Half Of Night Stalker Black Hawks, Little Birds Replaced With High-Speed Types By 2030s

The Army's elite 160th SOAR is set for a major transition, but it will retain some MH-60s and AH/MH-6s for certain missions.

www.thedrive.com

Interesting but these days not sure I will be around in the early 2030's when this starts..
Get tired of all these deep future Mil articles for big attention.. Reminds me of all those Popular Mechanic magazines back in the day
and how much they got wrong.. LOL Still waiting on my flying car.
Will stick with the current and next few years instead

 

[RaleighGuy]

Trump N757AF headed back south

EXEC1F out of ADW at 20:12 local --

Interesting didn't know she was going any place today.

 

[dmi]

2141 - ENERGY-17 (N2317 - 2019 Beech 300 Super King Air) patterns. landing ADW (tower 118.4)

N2317 Flight Tracking and History 10-May-2023 (KADW-KADW) - FlightAware

Track N2317 flight from Joint Base Andrews to Joint Base Andrews

flightaware.com

Reg'd to
National Nuclear Security Administration
Nevada Field Office Dept Of Energ
North Las Vegas, Nevada 89193

then pilot switch to:

2152 - ENERGY-12 (N412DE - 1992 Bell 412) U S DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY, NEVADA SITE OFFICER

N412DE Flight Tracking and History 10-May-2023 (KADW - FlightAware

Track N412DE flight from Joint Base Andrews to Joint Base Andrews

flightaware.com

ADS-B Exchange - track aircraft live

ADS-B Exchange - track aircraft live - aircraft flight history

globe.adsbexchange.com

 

[mdmonitor]

A little history on the Energy acft from my notes.

When the Dep't of Energy started operating out of ADW they were assigned to the Washington Aeronautic Meteorological Office (WAMO). They used the callsign WAMO ##

About 10 years ago they switched to the Energy ## callsign and were assigned to the NATIONAL NUCLEAR SECURITY ADMINISTRATION under the Dep't of Energy.

Their original mission, and I believe still is, to overfly nuclear power plants & other nuclear installations and monitor & measure for any radiation leakage.

According to my records the Dep't of Energy control some 18 acft of various types.

 

[mdmonitor]

Guys

Checked my notes again, and slight correction. WAMO was Washington Area Meteorological Office.

 

[mdmonitor]

VIP Movement Summary (does not include POTUS, VPOTUS, FLOTUS travel)

DATE: 10 May

SAM 886 (C-37 # 18-1952) Miami??-ADW-Offutt AFB
SAM 947 (C-37 # 18-1947) ADW-Miami-ADW

 

[mdmonitor]

0920- Formation of 4 KC-46s (Inlay 44-47) off WRI heading east.

 

[mdmonitor]

A new design for homeland defense is in the works at NORTHCOM

U.S. Northern Command's chief is working on a plan for homeland defense that he claims will look vastly different than today's continental defense.

www.defensenews.com

 

[mdmonitor]

1135- Score 47 (MQ-4 # 168459 VX-20) working the southern PAX area at FL500. At 1140, score 47 moved out to the Test Track.

1139- Couple of DHS acft (no calls noted) working on discrete (136.275 AM). One pilot is female.

 

[Tech792]

1135- REACH 4164 off JFK heading southwest, most likely POTUS cargo.
1207- EIDER 37 ( a C-17) now off of JFK heading south. (no 4 digit numer on this one)

 

[mdmonitor]

1210- Hearing 4 ftrs w/acft ops checks working on 251.2. I have that freq as WRI CP (Torch Control). One of the acft has some issues and lead acft is watching him closely. Flt lead gives time over LAAK and then direct Vine(??)

 

[Tech792]

1210- Hearing 4 ftrs w/acft ops checks working on 251.2. I have that freq as WRI CP (Torch Control). One of the acft has some issues and lead acft is watching him closely. Flt lead gives time over LAAK and then direct Vine(??)

Heard that too Ron...couldn't ID them.
1300- A 3rd C17 out of JFK heading south. VINYL 71, don't usually see three C-17s for POTUS equip.

 

[mdmonitor]

1310- AME 8545 (Spanish AF Falcon 900 T-18-2) inbound to ADW.

1312- Bruno 61 (E-6B # 163918) coming onshore over southern NJ.

 

[RaleighGuy]

POTUS Rehoboth TFR issued for weekend, covering multiple areas, from May 13, 2023 at 1600 UTC (Saturday May 13, 2023 at 1200 EDT) to May 15, 2023 at 1400 UTC (Monday May 15, 2023 at 1000 EDT).

3/4763 NOTAM Details

 

[Mark]

1210- Hearing 4 ftrs w/acft ops checks working on 251.2. I have that freq as WRI CP (Torch Control). One of the acft has some issues and lead acft is watching him closely. Flt lead gives time over LAAK and then direct Vine(??)

Rgr Ron got them on tape was wondering what freq they were using..Flight of 4.
One said I have two engines and the radio but hydraulics are gone... Then he said I accidently hit a toggle switch so all is well.
12:25 local next waypoint LAAYK at 17:46z then direct Barnes. One sounded like TABOR-1 or CABLE-1 ..LOL
LAAYK waypoint | OpenNav Must have been cutting across Pa SW to Northeast.. Didn't sound like the Barnes guys.. Visitors?

1313 local Coast Guard 2008 inbound Andrews on 378.100 in the blind landing there.
Don;t get too many HC-130J's into Andrews.

 

[Tank67]

1300- A 3rd C17 out of JFK heading south. VINYL 71, don't usually see three C-17s for POTUS equip.

I think they had to bring double the motorcade equipment. They had to use the vehicles up in Westchester, and again in NYC when they flew him down 15 minutes after. They wouldn't of had time to relocate the vehicles/equipment.

 

[Mark]

Bet you would be busy with radio scanners in Tyndall Fl area this week.
Scanner searching UHF would be crazy not to mention Eglin and Pensacola not far away.
In all these years never really saw someone from down that way logging milair and posting..

US DoD’s Checkered Flag 22-2 exercise begins at Tyndall AFB

The US Department of Defense (DoD) has commenced its air-to-air exercise, Checkered Flag 22-2, at Tyndall Air Force Base (AFB) in Florida, US.

www.airforce-technology.com

AR-660 Res for the day.. Interacting Schedules

 

[RaleighGuy]

Going to link this here and see if anyone has any more info on this...

ZEUS - Military Helos between RDU/Sanford/Fayettville

Over the past week or two there have been numerous military helos flying between RDU and Sanford and more recently Fayettville, they are using a callsign of ZEUSxx which I don't remember being used in the area. Does anyone know who is using these helos, what the mission is, and/or what...

forums.radioreference.com

 

[freqhopping]

Earlier today BARF12 C-32B returned to McGuire from L-3 Greenville, TX

 

[mdmonitor]

1945- Advice 12 (KC-10 # 86-0037) working First Ops (349.4) w/inbound msg. Working Potomac (124.55) & DOV approach (132.5425).

1955- DC ANG F-16s (Angry, Wild) off ADW heading for PAX (305.2). A2A is 143.6AM, 285.225 & 319.175..