Mid-Atlantic MilAir 2024

[mdmonitor]

1535- ??? 601 (call garbled) working PAX A/D (120.05/123.7) for landing., ADS-B showing DC-9 N879AD (# 168277) on approach to PAX.

1545- Mood 65 (E-6B # 162783) off PAX heading east. On 311.0. ?Wolf Suit? calling ?Brown Rat? for comms check.

 

[mdmonitor]

1630- Score 60 (KC-130 # 163310 VX-20) check in w/Giantkiller (238.1) for entry into W386 to work w/Salty Dog 65 (F-18 VX-23)

1640- Moab 1 (C-130T # 165313) inbound to ADW from Hill AFB UT. This C-130T is one of the VR-53 acft, but use of Moab call is strange.

 

[jsoergel]

1640- Moab 1 (C-130T # 165313) inbound to ADW from Hill AFB UT. This C-130T is one of the VR-53 acft, but use of Moab call is strange.

MOAB is the C-130 depot call for Ogden ALC. Should be bringing it back from maintenance.

 

[RaleighGuy]

POTUS is heading to Maryland tomorrow, Marine One trip...

12:30 PM THE PRESIDENT departs the White House en route to Fort Lesley J. McNair North Grounds
12:40 PM THE PRESIDENT arrives to Fort Lesley J. McNair
12:50 PM THE PRESIDENT departs Fort Lesley J. McNair en route to Baltimore, Maryland
1:15 PM THE PRESIDENT arrives in Baltimore, Maryland Port of Baltimore Landing Zone
4:00 PM THE PRESIDENT departs Baltimore, Maryland en route to Potomac, Maryland Port of Baltimore Landing Zone
4:30 PM THE PRESIDENT arrives in Potomac, Maryland Bethesda Landing Zone

5:50 PM THE PRESIDENT departs Potomac, Maryland en route to Fort Lesley J. McNair Bethesda Landing Zone
6:05 PM THE PRESIDENT arrives to Fort Lesley J. McNair
6:15 PM THE PRESIDENT departs Fort Lesley J. McNair en route to the White House
6:25 PM THE PRESIDENT arrives to the White House North Grounds

 

[Mark]

McGuire KC-46's headed out to AR-777 with a Pax River P-8A..
Kind of rare..

 

[mdmonitor]

POTUS is heading to Maryland tomorrow, Marine One trip...

12:30 PM THE PRESIDENT departs the White House en route to Fort Lesley J. McNair North Grounds
12:40 PM THE PRESIDENT arrives to Fort Lesley J. McNair
12:50 PM THE PRESIDENT departs Fort Lesley J. McNair en route to Baltimore, Maryland
1:15 PM THE PRESIDENT arrives in Baltimore, Maryland Port of Baltimore Landing Zone
4:00 PM THE PRESIDENT departs Baltimore, Maryland en route to Potomac, Maryland Port of Baltimore Landing Zone
4:30 PM THE PRESIDENT arrives in Potomac, Maryland Bethesda Landing Zone

5:50 PM THE PRESIDENT departs Potomac, Maryland en route to Fort Lesley J. McNair Bethesda Landing Zone
6:05 PM THE PRESIDENT arrives to Fort Lesley J. McNair
6:15 PM THE PRESIDENT departs Fort Lesley J. McNair en route to the White House
6:25 PM THE PRESIDENT arrives to the White House North Grounds

Darn, will be away from radios all day. Rats !!!!

 

[CRGJones]

Monitoring comms / scanning / searching. Rene's been at it for years.
The tankers discussed the frequencies before departure.

For those people not in line of sight range of the Merkin bases in East Anglia there are some public zello channels:
EGUN
EGUL
EGUL RAPCON

Maybe others. There are certainly a couple of Scottish Mil and Dutch Mil ones.

Just looked at Globaltuners and there are still a few receivers which ought to give reasonable coverage over the Midlands and North East of England too.

Excuse my ignorance but what is a Merkin base please? More specifically, the term Merkin. I know of Mild and Lakenheath.

 

[Mark]

OT Something a little different as P-6 got the Chopper exercise last night in DC.. Judging by comments posted some folks are worried but
no biggie as pilots always need practice like this.

 

[RaleighGuy]

AF1 to Scranton PA Saturday

 

[frank3si]

HAGAR88 returns to Dover over New Castle just after 12:30pm EDT after flying over the state of New York most of the morning.

 

[freqhopping]

Thought I heard the rumble of fighters overhead with nothing commercial in the area. Just heard PCT on 350.25 talking about someone entering the ATCAA, no reply heard though.

Seeing a tanker on adsb.


COSMICs in the CAP. 228.9


1337- VENUS31 being called on guard. 243.0.Told to try 121.05.

 

[Mark]

Hearing COMIC's A/A 260.900 not real strong. Sounds like exercise after tracking target saying"ceasefire"
but also mention going to the tanker too. NORAD does a rotten job of posting exercises or scrambles.
Anyone have a better source for them?

 

[freqhopping]

It was a CAP for Biden's trip to Dundalk.

Just heard a bit of A-10 comms on 266.6.

 

[dmi]

It was a CAP for Biden's trip to Dundalk.

Just heard a bit of A-10 comms on 266.6.

RAVEN-01 (A-10C #78-0683) 104th FS MD ANG

ADS-B Exchange - track aircraft live

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

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[Mark]

RAVEN-01 (A-10C #78-0683) 104th FS MD ANG

ADS-B Exchange - track aircraft live

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

globe.adsbexchange.com

Heard RAVEN-01 flight of 4 inbound Martin State runway-33 on Pot apch 317.425.

1625 local COSMIC's with ZDC UHF said going out to W-107 for 10 minutes to burn some gas before rtb.
Guess a bit overweight after CAP tanker topoff.

Rare EA/18G on ADSB. ZAPPER-21 #168268 VAQ-130 coming East over Wash State on test flight?
They can show when they want to Same squadron that lost crew of two recently.

 

[Mark]

Noticed lately aircraft inbound McGuire have all been UHF 237.150 inbound with the CP..
Notam says VHF CP 134.100 down till at least thru Dec 2.
A) KWRI
B) 2409241648
C) 2412022359
E) COMMAND POST VHF 134.1 OTS. USE UHF AND SAT PHONE TO COMMUNICATE.
Guess still doing lots of runway construction as well.. This runway is their short runway at 7K feet.
RWY 18/36 LIMITED TO DAYLIGHT HOURS ONLY. RUNWAY LIGHTS OTS.

1950 local Rare I hear Oceana Ops cargo inbound on their 284.900.
RCH-648 C-17 #09-9212 inbound from Bangor stop with pax and pallets offloads parking at North pad.
USAF AMC cargo has been busy in and out of Norfolk area lately.Lot of C-5M's as well.

 

[Mark]

Good morning Mark and all,

VINYL 61 (63-8020), VINYL 62 (21-46090), VINYL 71 (61-0295) and VINYL 72 (19-46063)
dragged twelve 388FW F-35s to Honolulu as SPINE 11 and SPINE 21 flight.

I was always under the impression that this standard Coronet West callsign used to be PINE,
however ACARS message and radio calls now indicate that the correct callsign should be SPINE ....

Any thoughts on this ?

Looks like some Hill AFB F-22's pressed on today as currently VINYL-61 rtb Honolulu Hawaii.
Maybe they will relieve the Langley F-22's still out there? Course shows towards Guam perhaps.

 

[mdmonitor]

0925- Shado 44 (E-6B # 163920) off PAX heading west, Probably headed to Tinker.

0930- Bunch of Langley T-38s working this morning. Some (Swamp, Miller, Ratch) are doing low level acty at Farmville MOA southeast of Richmond. Second bunch (Mig, Devo, Kansas) in W386 w/71st FS F-22s (255.65/227.2). One flt (Hover) working down at the Dare NC range.

0940- Some MD ANG A-10Cs working on 266.6.

0945- Couple of DC ANG F-16s off ADW (257.2). A2A is 238.175.

 

[dmi]

0925- Shado 44 (E-6B # 163920) off PAX heading west, Probably headed to Tinker.

0930- Bunch of Langley T-38s working this morning. Some (Swamp, Miller, Ratch) are doing low level acty at Farmville MOA southeast of Richmond. Second bunch (Mig, Devo, Kansas) in W386 w/71st FS F-22s (255.65/227.2). One flt (Hover) working down at the Dare NC range.

Does KS = KANSAS ?
RH = RATCH ?

 

[mdmonitor]

Does KS = KANSAS ?

Yes