Mid-Atlantic MilAir 2023

[RaleighGuy]

So much for a holiday for the military men and women flying POTUS around tomorrow...

7:15 AM THE PRESIDENT departs Rehoboth Beach, Delware en route to Dover, Delaware
7:45 AM THE PRESIDENT departs Dover, Delaware en route to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
8:15 AM THE PRESIDENT arrives in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

9:20 AM THE PRESIDENT delivers remarks Sheet Metal Workers’ Local 19, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

10:20 AM THE PRESIDENT departs Philadelphia, Pennsylvania en route to en route to New Castle, Delaware
10:50 AM THE PRESIDENT arrives in New Castle, Delaware
5:25 PM THE PRESIDENT departs New Castle, Delaware en route to Joint Base Andrews
6:15 PM THE PRESIDENT departs Joint Base Andrews en route to the White House
6:25 PM THE PRESIDENT arrives at the White House South Lawn

And for the Vice President...

The Vice President will depart Washington, D.C. for Jakarta, Indonesia to attend the U.S.-ASEAN Summit and the East Asia Summit.

At 8:00 AM EDT, the Vice President will depart Joint Base Andrews en route to Elmendorf Air Force Base, Alaska.
At 12:15 PM AKDT, the Vice President will arrive at Elmendorf Air Force Base, Alaska for a re-fueling stop.
At 2:15 PM AKDT, the Vice President will depart Elmendorf Air Force Base, Alaska en route to Yokota Air Base, Japan.

 

[hrspotter]

2136 - USCG MH-60T 6024 in a search pattern offshore VA Beach.

 

[Mark]

0530 local DEATH-11 with ZBW 292.150 getting waypoint spelled out OMOKU.
No tankers seen up and about... Nothing else heard after that.

 

[Bmacs]

0530 local DEATH-11 with ZBW 292.150 getting waypoint spelled out OMOKU.
No tankers seen up and about... Nothing else heard after that.

Heard on 307.9 and 307.0 at 06:30 local as well - at 36K flight of 2 non-standard - B-2s?

 

[BM82557]

AF2 98-0002 off from ADW at 08:10 local --

 

[Mark]

I thought CAP might move to Philly area but NOBLE-11,12 55th FS departed for home
at 0807 local req cancel IFR and req descent ZDC 354.150 to 10k and taking Coastal route home with VFR following.
Tanker Taboo-41 #61-0295 departed for home at MacDill AFB

 

[mdmonitor]

0920- Blackjack 4 (MH-65D # 6511 CGAS Wash) working ADW tower (118.4).

 

[Mark]

Couple McGuire KC-46's departed Glasgow and enroute San Juan TJSJ airport.
RCH-215 #19-46064 and RCH-243 #21-46061

 

[mdmonitor]

1005- Noble 21 check in w/Huntress (260.9). Also working ZDC Millville (363.0)

 

[N4TX]

The Wall Street Journal is running a story this morning entitled "Chinese Gate-Crashers at U.S. Bases Spark Espionage Concerns. Washington has tracked about 100 incidents involving Chinese nationals trying to access American military and other installations"

If you are a subscriber, you can find it at:

WSJ News Exclusive | Chinese Gate-Crashers at U.S. Bases Spark Espionage Concerns

Washington has tracked about 100 incidents involving Chinese nationals trying to access U.S. military and other installations.

www.wsj.com

I can't send it because it's long, an exclusive and copyrighted. It gets into many creative ways the Chinese spooks have tried, including scuba visits, claims to have reservations at on-base hotels and even ramming through the gates. This is not being done by the Chinese diplomats and attaches but rather by ordinary Chinese living in the U.S. but actively working for their government. That includes an incident at NAS Key West.

I've often thought that if base security were looking for someone parked outside military bases with a car full of monitoring equipment and a very old clearance, they could very easily find...me.

 

[Mark]

1005- Noble 21 check in w/Huntress (260.9)

Rgr Ron starting up a new CAP? See a tanker coming South TABOO-42 #60-0362.
NOBLE-21 working ZDC on 363.000. Say they are getting light icing climbing up thru the clouds.
Coast Guard helo 6506 circling downtown Philly.. Bouncer-1?

 

[BM82557]

The Wall Street Journal is running a story this morning entitled "Chinese Gate-Crashers at U.S. Bases Spark Espionage Concerns. Washington has tracked about 100 incidents involving Chinese nationals trying to access American military and other installations"

If you are a subscriber, you can find it at:

WSJ News Exclusive | Chinese Gate-Crashers at U.S. Bases Spark Espionage Concerns

Washington has tracked about 100 incidents involving Chinese nationals trying to access U.S. military and other installations.

www.wsj.com

I can't send it because it's long, an exclusive and copyrighted. It gets into many creative ways the Chinese spooks have tried, including scuba visits, claims to have reservations at on-base hotels and even ramming through the gates. This is not being done by the Chinese diplomats and attaches but rather by ordinary Chinese living in the U.S. but actively working for their government. That includes an incident at NAS Key West.

I've often thought that if base security were looking for someone parked outside military bases with a car full of monitoring equipment and a very old clearance, they could very easily find...me.

Thanks for posting that, I had been aware of this one --

Survey of Chinese Espionage in the United States Since 2000 | Archives | CSIS

www.csis.org

 

[mdmonitor]

1105- Hearing some weak xmissions on 305.6 which I have listed as Langley SOF.

 

[frank3si]

Two angles of Air Force One/09-0018 landing in New Castle at KILG about 30 minutes ago, 11am EDT. A nice close pass

 

[Mark]

Two angles of Air Force One/09-0018 landing in New Castle at KILG about 30 minutes ago, 11am EDT. A nice close pass

Notice they have scrubbed the tail numbers on these as well

 

[frank3si]

I've often thought that if base security were looking for someone parked outside military bases with a car full of monitoring equipment and a very old clearance, they could very easily find...me.

I get these same feelings when I'm doing things like staking out Air Force One as I did earlier today. I'm usually packing a lot of camera gear including a very big 200-500mm zoom that looks suspiciously like a portable missile launcher. I've had a number of clearances at aviation/aerospace government activities but I don't think that's going to carry much weight out in the field, nor will my Aerospace Perceptions business card

 

[KB1JHU]

Off topic one of the FAA Flight-Checks doing nightly flights out of Westchester NY. Shows as Cessna 208 but
could be one of their Beech-300's. Amusing mode s designation of (FAAFC2) with callsign FLTCK2U
FLTCK2U Flight Tracking and History - FlightAware

I looked into this the other night. They identified as a Cessna Caravan when they landed at KHPN for fuel. I still haven't been able to figure out what aircraft it was, could be a contractor.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1697119899288523201

 

[MUTNAV]

Off topic one of the FAA Flight-Checks doing nightly flights out of Westchester NY. Shows as Cessna 208 but
could be one of their Beech-300's. Amusing mode s designation of (FAAFC2) with callsign FLTCK2U
FLTCK2U Flight Tracking and History - FlightAware

The FAA uses only one of 5 types of aircraft for flight inspection, so my guess is mis-identified in flight tracker, just a guess though.

Thanks
Joel

https://www.faa.gov/air_traffic/flight_info/flight_ops/flightinspection#:~:text=A%20fleet%20of%20approximately%2032%20aircraft%20of%205,604%2C%20Challenger%20605%2C%20Lear%2060%20and%20Beechcraft%20BE-300.

 

[rjsincs]

Canadian P3 headed NE over Pennsylvania from Texas. C2B201 I'm hoping it comes over the Scranton area so I can get a pic.

 

[mdmonitor]

1500- Taboo 99 (KC-46 # 18-46053 NH ANG) on way down to enter the CAP.