Sticky Thread For Mid-Atlantic MilAir 2019

[Tech792]

Showed callsign GLARE here today which covers a few Army MIB types.
Army UH-60M and Army UV-18A aircraft also with the GLARE callsign this year.
Seems these units are made up of active and Reserve components so assume on weekend likely a Reserve unit.

By 2015, all Battlefield Surveillance Brigades were reorganized into expeditionary military intelligence brigades

Battlefield surveillance brigades in the United States Army - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Get lots of GLARE callsigns in and out of Lakehurst NAS on an almost daily basis. Mostly UH-60 Blackhawks and sometimes fixed wing RC-12's.
Also at noon local time 11/25, have an E-6 (OWELET) doing tight patterns way out in the Atlantic Ocean off the NJ coast. Heard fighters on 339.725 ref to targets with DARKSTAR. Maybe related.

 

[mdmonitor]

1219 EST--Couple of flights of DC ANG F-16s (Scary & Wild) at FL110 w/ZDC Brooke (285.4)

 

[rjsincs]

1135 EST -- PAT104 AE012E Floating around west of Binghampton. ADSBExchange is labeling him a UC-35 but my Piaware is showing he is a DC-93. I'm inclined to believe ADSBExchange has more recent data but who knows. Also altitude is very not consistant ranging from 5k to FL540 instantly.

 

[Mark]

Scramble today near White House.. Heard WILD 1 climbing up to FL210 0906am
followed by SCARY 1.Both moved East over the Bay as SCARY 1 on returning Andrews 0959 was direct Nottingham.
Seems chasing a flock of Geese Eastbound perhaps WILD 1 heard returning Andrews 1022am local.
https://americanmilitarynews.com/2019/11/white-house-capitol-on-lockdown-after-unauthorized-aircraft-enters-airspace/

 

[mdmonitor]

Subject: Nation’s only heavy icebreaker departs for Antarctic military operation

News Release Nov. 26, 2019 U.S. Coast Guard Pacific Area Contact: Coast Guard Pacific Area Public Affairs Office: (510) 437-3319 After Hours: (510) 333-6297 D11-DG-M-PACAREA-PA@uscg.mil Pacific Area online newsroom​ Nation’s only heavy icebreaker departs for Antarctic military operation​ ​ Editors' Note: Click on images to download high resolution version.​ SEATTLE — The crew aboard the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Polar Star (WAGB 10) departed Tuesday commencing their annual deployment to Antarctica where the cutter and crew will support Operation Deep Freeze 2020, a joint military service mission to resupply U.S. interests in Antarctica. “We set out today on an important mission, saying goodbye to the friends and families who have supported us and our ship for the past seven-months since we returned from Operation Deep Freeze 2019,” said Capt. Gregory Stanclik, commanding officer of the Polar Star. “We are looking forward to this year’s mission to McMurdo Station with a ship that is running the best it has since reactivation. This mission is critical to the United States and our continued strategic presence on the Antarctic Continent and I have the best crew possible to ensure we safely accomplish our goal.” Homeported in Seattle, the 43-year-old Coast Guard cutter is the United States’ last remaining operational heavy icebreaker. This is the cutter’s seventh deployment in as many years to directly support the resupply of McMurdo Station – the United States’ main logistics hub in Antarctica. Each year, the crew aboard the 399-foot, 13,000-ton Polar Star create a navigable path through seasonal and multi-year ice, sometimes as much as 21-feet thick, to allow a resupply vessel to reach McMurdo Station. The supply delivery allows Antarctic stations to stay operational year-round, including during the dark and tumultuous winter. Commissioned in 1976, the Polar Star is showing its age. Reserved for Operation Deep Freeze each year, the Polar Star spends the winter breaking ice near Antarctica, and when the mission is complete, the cutter returns to dry dock in order to complete critical maintenance and repairs in preparation for the next Operation Deep Freeze mission. The Coast Guard has been the sole provider of the nation’s polar icebreaking capability since 1965, and is seeking to increase its icebreaking fleet with six new polar security cutters in order to ensure continued national presence and access to the Polar Regions. In the fiscal year 2019 budget, Congress appropriated $655 million to begin construction of a new polar security cutter this year, with another $20 million appropriated for long-lead-time materials to build a second. The Coast Guard and U.S. Navy, working through an integrated program office, awarded VT Halter Marine Inc., a fixed price incentive contract in April for the detail design and construction of the Coast Guard’s lead polar security cutter, including options for the construction of two additional PSCs. “The Coast Guard greatly appreciates the strong support from both the Administration and Congress for funding the polar security cutter program,” said Adm. Karl Schultz, the commandant of the Coast Guard. “These new cutters are absolutely vital to achieving our national strategic objectives in the Polar Regions – presence equals influence, and we must be present to meet the Nation’s national security and economic needs there in the future.” ​ -USCG-​

 

[freqhopping]

Hmm

C-32 09-0015 goes from FL back to Andrews. About 2245 it departed, heading back south.
2130-2200 RCH292 KC-10 79-1711 departed ADW heading overseas. KC-10s at Andrews are pretty rare. Is it really that plane?
2320- E-4B 73-1677 CLONE03 into at Wright-Pat from Offut.

 

[freqhopping]

Checking audio, the 09-0015 flight IDed as SAM45.

 

[Mark]

Checking audio, the 09-0015 flight IDed as SAM45.

Sounds like a sneak visit overseas.. RCH292 thru Romania headed for Middle East assume 1120z today.
A couple Dover C-5M's to Andrews Friday scheduled.. Assume for gear for NATO Europe meeting next week.

 

[freqhopping]

C-32 98-002 SAM632 came out of Luxembourg about 0515 EDT while RCH292 was over Germany. Both are now currently in close vicinity to each other over Romania. 25 miles. Both at FL370. Looks like the locations haven't undated accurately in a long time.

 

[freqhopping]

I was right about some funny business with the flights last night. I wonder if they really were spoofing as the KC-10. ADSBX shows it airborne currently heading NW over Romania.
Trump makes surprise visit to troops in Afghanistan

 

[Mark]

I was right about some funny business with the flights last night. I wonder if they really were spoofing as the KC-10. ADSBX shows it airborne currently heading NW over Romania.

Yeah nice mode s spoof.. May not show real id till it hits the Northeast Canada/US.
I checked my logs and in the past that KC-10 always shows full mode s location data but not last night.
I remember many years ago they did the same thing with a parked soon to be retired Andrews C-141 mode s.
Usually they spoof C-17's mode s lately.
Nice catch.
Course soon the FAA is gonna allow some private aircraft in US airspace to spoof mode s their tail ID's.
That will be strange scene.

 

[freqhopping]

RCH292 descending into Germany now. Maybe a stop at Landstuhl?

 

[Mark]

RCH292 descending into Germany now. Maybe a stop at Landstuhl?

They almost always use Ramstein..

 

[freqhopping]

Off of Ramstein with normal hex and AF1 callsign.

 

[Mark]

AF-1 At FL300 last heard on 118.825 0521 local headed on South assume to Florida.

 

[HuubRoem]

Currently inbound CONUS: USAF Boeing C-32A tail nr 09-0017 is also BOGUS identing ADFEB8 (C-32A, tail nr 98-0002) instead of AE4AEA. This C-32A is in the stream of SAM29 VC25A tail 92-9000 Thanksgiving flight support out of Ramstein.

 

[Mark]

Couple of our Dover C-5M's into London Stansted today from Andrews last night.
RCH 394 83-1285
RCH 395 85-0008

 

[mdmonitor]

Thanks to Ken Fowler for this interesting article....

Here Is What Really Happened With That Mysterious Washington D.C. Air Defense Scare

There have been confusing reports of mysterious blobs in the sky and mistaken birds flocks. This is exactly what was detected and what wasn't and why.

Here Is What Really Happened With That Mysterious Washington D.C. Air Defense Scare

 

[mdmonitor]

1605 EST SAM 687 (C-37 # 97-0401 ADW) landing at ADW

 

[mdmonitor]

Guys

Found the following online (thank you Google)

NOTE: Couldn't find anything for NYI & HMC


US Customs Air assets operating locations



GTF--Great Falls International Airport Great Falls, Montana, USA



FHU--Sierra Vista Municipal Airport-Libby Army Airfield Fort Huachuca / Sierra Vista, AZ



DMA--Davis Monthan Air Force Base Tucson, AZ



DPA--DuPage Airport Chicago/West Chicago, IL



BLI--Bellingham International Airport Bellingham, WA,



NYI--



RDR--Grand Forks Air Force Base Grand Forks, ND,



MFE-- Mc Allen Miller International Airport Mc Allen, TX,



SFF--Felts Field Airport Spokane, WA,



RIV--March Air Reserve Base Riverside, CA ,



NZY--North Island Naval Air Station (Halsey Field) San Diego, CA,



BQN-- Rafael Hernández Airport, Aquadilla PR.



HMC--



VQQ--Cecil Airport Jacksonville



E38-- Alpine-Casparis Municipal Airport, Alpine TX



HEF--Manassas Regional Airport/Harry P. Davis Field Washington, DC,



HDC--Hammond Northshore Regional Airport Hammond, LA,



DMN--Deming Municipal Airport Deming, NM ,



HUL--Houlton International Airport Houlton, ME,



ISP--Long Island Mac Arthur Airport New York, NY



MCC--Mc Clellan Airfield Sacramento, CA,



HST--Homestead Air Reserve Base Homestead, FL



OKC--Will Rogers World Airport Oklahoma City, OK,



MTC--Selfridge Air National Guard Base Mount Clemens, MI,



IAG--Niagara Falls International Airport Niagara Falls, NY,



PBG--Plattsburgh International Airport Plattsburgh, NY,



SAT--San Antonio International Airport San Antonio, TX,



ELP--El Paso International Airport El Paso, TX,



LRD--Laredo International Airport (Laredo, TX,



DRT--Del Rio International Airport. Del Rio TX



NGP--Corpus Christi Naval Air Station/Truax Field Corpus Christi, TX,



ABQ--Albuquerque International Sunport Airport Albuquerque, NM,



CXO--Conroe-North Houston Regional Airport Houston, TX,



SJT-San Angelo Regional Airport/Mathis Field San Angelo, TX



NIP--Jacksonville Naval Air Station (Towers Field) Jacksonville, FL,

Also found some Customs Air units that might be interesting.

Buffalo Air & Marine Branch Niagara Falls IAP,NY EC-120B, AS-350B, Cessna 206H

Plattsburgh Air Branch Plattsburgh IAP, NY 1x PC-12, 1x Cessna 210, 2x Cessna 550, 2x AS-350B

New York Air Unit Ronkonkoma/MacArthur AP, NY AS-350B