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4x KC-46 “FORCE” flt climbing out of McGuire. A/A on 378.85

FORCE73 KC-46 (19-46007) and FORCE74 KC-46 (20-46074). Caught the last two from my doorstep, first time I've seen a 4 ship of 46's.
 

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Couple old 1940-43 Warbird T-6'types Eastbound from NJ thru into Eastern Maryland
Both belong to B&B Warbird Aviation. Heard that old engine sound passing overhead by and wondered.
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I believe there is a formation clinic this weekend at Culpeper airport in VA. Lots of T-6s (SNJ, Harvard, etc etc :) ) will be headed down there!
 

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4x KC-46 “FORCE” flt climbing out of McGuire. A/A on 378.85

FORCE73 KC-46 (19-46007) and FORCE74 KC-46 (20-46074). Caught the last two from my doorstep, first time I've seen a 4 ship of 46's.
Those FORCE tankers moving on cross Country but seems FORCE-71,72 hanging at around FL-250 the entire
way so far. Maybe they picked somebody up along the way. Force-73,74 cruising at 35k.
 

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I did catch a 91 flight this morning inbound Atlantic City but couldn't make out the callsign.. Thanks.

Couple NJ COSMIC F-16's headed up towards Harrisburg now A/A 260.900 ZNY 323.300>ZNY 335.600
says are descending for low level work... Seems odd but NORAD flights can also bullseye ground targets as well.
 

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Force 74 & Force 74 into Salt Lake City International.
FORCE-71,72 look to be inbound Travis...
Maybe was posted here but also saw article that Langley F-22's went to Japan a couple weeks ago.
Supposed to be some Hill AFB F-35's returning soon from Japan.

Kadena Adds More Stealth Fighters Amid ‘Challenging Environment’

Yes was posted here.. DOH!
 
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2x McGuire KC-46 on their way back from Travis AFB. LOKI12 (20-46072) and LOKI13 (19-46010) arrived at Travis last night, and less than 24hrs are on the way back home.

Lots of McGuire tanker activity on the west coast over the past few days. Maybe to bring fighters back from Red Flag Alaska which wraps up tomorrow?
 

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2x McGuire KC-46 on their way back from Travis AFB. LOKI12 (20-46072) and LOKI13 (19-46010) arrived at Travis last night, and less than 24hrs are on the way back home.

Lots of McGuire tanker activity on the west coast over the past few days. Maybe to bring fighters back from Red Flag Alaska which wraps up tomorrow?
Not much East Coast fighters at Red Flag Alaska except USMC F-35B's from North Carolina.
That Hawaii hop to Japan and back keeping most busy.. If you read article above about Kadena they also have
lots of American ANG F-16's as well looking to rotate out back home.

2115 local NIGHTHAWK-31 inbound KILG from the Southwest on tower 126.000. Parking at the Boeing ramp.
 

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The U.S. is moving air assets in the Gulf. This from the WSJ today:

The Pentagon is shifting jet fighters, armed drones and other aircraft to Qatar, repositioning its forces to get around restrictions on conducting airstrikes from an air base long used by the U.S. in the United Arab Emirates.

The U.A.E. informed the U.S. in February that it would no longer permit American warplanes and drones based at Al Dhafra air base in Abu Dhabi to carry out strikes in Yemen and Iraq. That has prompted U.S. commanders to send the additional aircraft to Al Udeid air base in Qatar, the small Persian Gulf monarchy that hasn’t imposed similar restrictions, U.S. officials said.
 

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1346 local - Just had two AC Vipers arrive at KACY

Anyone know if this was the Brave flt DC ANG? They’re not DC jets, but I know there are a few airframes being moved around between squadrons. Or are these some of the jets coming home from the sandpit?

With BLUE93 still on the descent to McGuire, I’m expecting at least two more AC tails to arrive shortly.
 

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