Mid-Atlantic MilAir 2023

[mdmonitor]

Now flying as BACN06. Probably heading back home to Robbins AFB.

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Chuck in Detroit / NODAK1.

Bacon 06 is "cruising" through our area at FL470.

 

[mdmonitor]

1620- Posse 49 fooled me. He did low level pass through Martin State pattern, didn't land, and is now heading south

 

[Mark]

1525- Royal 12, 13, 14 showing on ADS-B in low level (3,400ft) formation heading to Dover. Departed from Ft Liberty NC. Ft Bragg sounded so much better

Saw Royal-11,12 depart Dover Monday on mode s enroute to Homestead AFB then half hour later over to MacDill
then back up to Pope AFB area and were in that area all week.Maybe picked up some Florida based Special Ops jumpers
for Bragg/Liberty areas?

1720 local BLUE-11 with ZBW Cape sector 128.750 will split from TABOR-62 flight of 3.
BLUE-11 going into Pease... After split have Tabors go to 290.300 or this freq for VHF.
TABOR 62 flight will be going direct ACK FL300 then HTO.. HTO : HAMPTON navaid | OpenNav
Then EMJAY EMJAY waypoint | OpenNav Tabors push ZBW 254.375

 

[CYUL]

RUNNR01 B737 #170041

 

[Mark]

RUNNR01 B737 #170041

Yes the recent USMC pax runner.. Should be a second RUNNER delivered by end of this year.
US Navy sure runs there own C-40 737 types all over these days.. They could qualify as their own busy Airline
The last USMC C-9 retired in 2017 so Marines been waiting a while to get their own pax planes again

 

[Mark]

Nice evening..Not a cloud in the sky.. Seems Marine 1 gonna chopper to Wilm area tonight.
Mode s AE0808 #159356 VH-3D HMX-1. Could be one of the spares showing like this.

 

[Mark]

STEAM-70 KC-46 #15-46070 departed McGuire and picked up someone in Northern Mississippi
and taking to the West Coast zig zagging the wx.Maybe retiring/relocating Bama F-16's?
Red Tails getting F-35's someday soon.Now inbound for Nellis AFB..
They already got some ex Texas F-16's last week for the 926th Wg Reserve Unit. Tails will be changed to LZ code.

 

[freqhopping]

Andrews F-16s did a funeral flyover this morning. May have been for James Mahan III, a fighter pilot that did a full career.

But also interred today was Chauncey Steele Jr.

Mr. Steele served in the U.S. Army Air Corps as a Gunner/Armorer during World War II with The 44th Bomb Group, 8th Air Force in the European Theater. He flew 35 combat missions over enemy territory. On April 18, 1944, during a bombing run over Berlin, Germany; the bomb bay doors on the B-24 Bomber malfunctioned and jammed closed. Fifty-two 100 pound incendiary bombs fell from their racks, armed themselves and piled up on the jammed doors. Without a parachute and an oxygen mask, at -30 degrees temperature and at an altitude of 20,000 feet Sgt. Steele entered the bomb bay and reinstalled the safety wires; both front and rear on many of the bombs. The remainder of the bombs were live and were piled up on the jammed doors. With the bomber out of formation and falling further and further behind; Sgt. Steele worked feverishly to jettison one by one most of the bombs out through the escape hatch. Only then could he force the bomb bay doors open and the rest of the bombs could fall from the plane. He also rescued the Bombardier, who had attempted to help and had fallen from the catwalk into the bomb bay. His actions that day earned him the Silver Star.


On his last scheduled mission, July 7, 1944, his plane was shot down between Bernberg and Leipzig, Germany. He spent the remainder of the war as a German POW at Luft Stalag IV and survived the 600-mile "Death March" during the winter of 1944-45.


In addition to The Sliver Star, Mr. Steele was awarded The Distinguished Flying Cross, Air Medal with six Oak Leaf Clusters, The Purple Heart and The POW Medal. In 2009, at the French Embassy in Washington D.C., he was awarded The French Legion of Honor.

 

[TerryPavlick]

A Coast Guard HC-130 2015 from Elizabeth City and a MH-65 C6510 from Atlantic City look like they’re in search patterns off Point Pleasant, NJ

just one of the sources for what happened.....

Boat capsizes in Manasquan Inlet, one person missing

The 31-foot boat was hit by a wave in Manasquan Inlet around 8 p.m. in the rough waters churned up by Hurricane Lee which caused it to flip.

nj1015.com

 

[mdmonitor]

Air Force picks four more Guard wings to fly C-130J airlifters

Recent congressional spending packages have allowed the Air National Guard to buy 32 new C-130Js.

www.airforcetimes.com

 

[RaleighGuy]

WEEKEND GUIDANCE AND PRESS SCHEDULE FOR SATURDAY,
SEPTEMBER 16, 2023 – SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

On Saturday, the President has no public events scheduled.

1:20 PM THE PRESIDENT departs Delaware Air National Guard Base, New Castle, Delaware en route to the White House
2:15 PM THE PRESIDENT arrives at the White House South Lawn
5:25 PM THE PRESIDENT departs the White House South Lawn
5:45 PM THE PRESIDENT departs Joint Base Andrews en route to Queens, New York
6:40 PM THE PRESIDENT arrives in John F. Kennedy International Airport, Queens, New York
6:50 PM THE PRESIDENT departs John F. Kennedy International Airport, Queens, New York, en route to New York, New York
7:05 PM THE PRESIDENT arrives Wall Street Landing Zone, New York, New York

 

[RaleighGuy]

Vice President Kamala Harris to Travel to Reading, PA

On Tuesday, September 19, Vice President Kamala Harris will participate in a moderated conversation at Reading Area Community College, in Reading, PA.

 

[Mark]

Pax River NAS putting final touches on Coast Guard HC-27J airplanes.

First missionized Coast Guard HC-27J completes inaugural flight

The Coast Guard successfully performed the first flight of the newly missionized HC-27J prototype aircraft, CGNR 2712, on Sept. 6, 2023, at Naval Air Station (NAS) Patuxent River, Maryland.

www.dcms.uscg.mil

I guess Pax River has had this quite a while.. from 2017.

Coast Guard Transfers First C-27J For Missionization Work

 

[mdmonitor]

Off topic but interesting (to me at least)

A friend sent me a pic of bizjet that ran off the runway at BWI yesterday

Story here MSN

 

[Mark]

NOBLE-11 is rtb Shaw down thru the Bay ZDC 360.700>285.400. Seems they had a TOI earlier 0949 local.
NOBLE-11 cleared down to FL 3k for TOI-1 for intercept but target kept tracking West out of the zone.
At 1005 local Noble-11 went back up into CAP.
NOBLE-21,22 in the CAP now ZDC 307.250...BOUNCER to Bigfoot on 260.900 req rtb inbound KILG.
I assume BOUNCER-01 went after that TOI.
Tankers ADVICE-11 and 12 KC-46's chatting A/A 235.850 on NH ANG squad freq.Both working out of Dover.
Not a cloud in the sky here but rain showing Long Island and New England areas.

 

[Dutchmil]

One of the Italian Air Force aerobatic team 'Frecce Tricolori' MB-339s just crashed during
take-off at Turin Caselle a few minutes ago ... pilot ejected.

https://x.com/ItaMilRadar/status/1703062050950217927?s=20

 

[Mark]

Was out but at 11:35 local MAPLE-11 self id as flight of 4 with ZDC UHF at FL310 standard
and pushed ZNY (Lancaster Pa) 323.300. Maybe returning from that William Tell fighter competition down at Savannah?

11:47 There was second flight sounded like VOLT-11 "FL-280 non-standard 6 miles in trail"

 

[freqhopping]

Oceana air show live

 

[Mark]

1450 NOBLE-31 on ZDC 363.00 at FL250 req FL 3k for intercept aircraft 20 miles off my nose.
1455 NOBLE-31 push Philly apch 319.150
1458 NOBLE-31 popped up just over my house headed for upper Ches Bay.. So fast couldn't get my
camera out. There is unid N28250 in the area now turning Southeast.NOBLE-31 turned back North towards CAP.
That was fun!
N28250 pops up on 121.500 says enroute Ocean City NJ.Told to push Philly apch on 119.750
N28250 says now heading 180 on 119.750.. He sounded a bit rattled.Now pressing onto his destination.
He never violated the CAP but was heading that way.

 

[Tank67]

First dignitary flights I've seen are arriving. Algerian A340 Q7TVPP and Gulfstream Q7TVPG setting up to land at JFK.