Sticky Thread For Mid-Atlantic MilAir 2021

[Mark]

Noticed BANKR 82-83 heading north this morning. BANKR is usually a CAP callsign, do they use it for Coronets too ? Also SPUR 85-86-87 northbound. 85 out of PIT is going to Eielson PAEI, so maybe the SPURs are just positioning for a Coronet ?

Bankrs sure seemed on Polar Route somewhere and at 25k seem to be dragging someone North.
Thought maybe Potus planning a surprise stop somewhere
on way back from Geneva.. A Greenland Stop?

Alaska Red Flag 21-2 going on there so maybe surprise Bomber visit or another Coronet for the SPURS?
Interesting stuff going on..

 

[RaleighGuy]

Tomorrow, At 7:30 PM BST / 2:30 PM ET, the First Lady will depart Heathrow Airport to return to the White House. This departure is closed press.

 

[AirScan]

Bankrs sure seemed on Polar Route somewhere and at 25k seem to be dragging someone North.

Tracked the BANKRs down briefly on the Edmonton High Arctic sectors (YFB), routing over 72N80W. Could not determine who they were with ? Around the same time heard BRUISER 01 (via MEDPA) and REDEYE 01 (via GELBO) eastbound handed off to Iceland Radio on HF. There was also a Canforce HUSKY 75 flight of 3 in the vicinity of YFB.

 

[RaleighGuy]

Sunday POTUS schedule

BST

3:25 PM BST/10:25 AM ET THE PRESIDENT and THE FIRST LADY depart Cornwall, United Kingdom en route London, United Kingdom from Cornwall Airport Newquay

4:25 PM /11:25 AM ET THE PRESIDENT and THE FIRST LADY arrive in London, United Kingdom Heathrow Airport

6:50 PM/1:50 PM ET THE PRESIDENT departs London, United Kingdom en route Brussels, Belgium from Heathrow Airport

CEST

9:05 PM/3:05 PM ET THE PRESIDENT arrives in Brussels, Belgium at Brussels Airport

 

[GriffissSpotter]

By the looks of the FAA's Special Use Airspace website, looks like the BAF F-15s are done flying for the weekend.
Here's a summary of what went down with lots of help from AirScan,
*Departed every 2 hours on the top of the hour usually between 0700 and 2100*
*259.900 and 264.850 were used for A-A comms*

(Callsign/IFR Route/Approximate Departure time)
Thursday:
WICKED 1/Route: AG-A (Viper)/1300Z
DEMON 1/Route: AG-A (Viper)/1500Z
BEACH 1/Route: AG-54 (W-105)/1700Z
WICKED 1/Route: AG-A (Viper)/1900Z
BULLET 1/Route: AG-54 (W-105)/2100Z
SABRE 1/Route: AG-54 (W-105)/2300Z (Refueled with MAINE 87)
OBI 1/Route: AG-54 (W-105)/0100Z

Friday:
MISER 1/Route: AG-54 (W-105)/1100Z
BILLY 1/Route: AG-A (Viper)/1300Z
BLADE 1/Route: AG-NS (Viper)/1500Z (Refueled with MAINE 85 & 86)
RIPPA 1/Route: AG-54 (W-105)/1700Z
BILLY 1/Route: AG-A (Viper)/1900Z
KNIFE 1/Route: AG-56 (W-105 East)/2100Z
KILLER 1/Route: AG-54 (W-105)/2300Z
JUICE 1/Route: AG-54 (W-105)/0100Z

Saturday:
GUNSHOT 1/Route: AG-A (Viper)/1100Z
KNIFE 1/Route: AG-A (Viper)/1300Z
WICKED 1/Route: AG-A (Viper)/1500Z
GUNSHOT 1/Route: AG-51 (Yankee/Laser)1700Z
MYTEE 1/Route: AG-51 (Yankee/Laser)/1900Z
OBI 1/Route: AG-A (Viper)/2100Z
BILLY 1/Route: AG-A (Viper)/2300Z

 

[Mark]

I see the Vermont F-35's still working to get their Combat Cert as well.
Saw news report they plan on more flight training off site somewhere else this Summer.
Road trip Prob go out to Hill or the Desert areas.

Seems RCH-835 05-5152 from Hawaii finally got off Dover this am Eastbound.. Must have really been broken.
MC835 (RCH835) Air Mobility Command Flight Tracking and History 13-Jun-2021 - FlightAware

 

[mdmonitor]

0850- SAM 391 (C-40 # 02-0042 AE11F8) off ADW heading south

 

[AirScan]

A couple of ADW KC-135s have been working out of Finland the last few days using their DECEE callsigns.

 

[mdmonitor]

0940- HUAF 618 (Hungarian AF Falcon 7X #607) off Dulles heading south.

 

[Mark]

1025 RCH-828 C-17 #00-0175 inbound McGuire a mess alpha-3 for both inboard engine thrust reversers pinned mesa code 7830
and #3 Aux pump inop mesa code 2921.
Looks like RCH-828 did Afghan gear pickup to Fort Campbell and now home to McGuire.

 

[RaleighGuy]

Sec'y of State to travel to Brussels for NATO, probably already arrived as 99-0003 is on the ground there.

 

[vgames15]

1738 local DIAMOND-11 or DIMON-11 flight of 2 at FL 8k inbound McGuire UHF all the way in.
Tells Ctr nothing heard on that apch freq 273.750 so gets 375? Has info Hotel and inbound for runway 6.
I think slow movers as mentioned he was going from FL8K down to FL6k. fighters won't normally announce that small change in altitude.

Was a flight of 2 f18’s they just departed WRI

 

[Mark]

Was a flight of 2 f18’s they just departed WRI

Thanks.. Seems two Navy FA/18 units use the DIAMOND callsign. someone else pointed out was VFA-146 and
prob is most likely them. Still based a long way from here,just visiting I guess from the USS Roosevelt which is in San Diego now.
VFA-146 - Wikipedia

The other is VFA-102 - Wikipedia who also use callsign DIAMOND. Not likely them

 

[RaleighGuy]

Interesting hit showing on ADSBx over Windsor Castle Helo NH3, with hex of 43C290 registration XW214. Just wondering given the person there if that could be a spoof and callsign stand for NIGHTHAWK 3? Appeared about same time M1 departed.

Headed from Windsor to Heathrow as SAM18 is flying in from the west. Both FLOTUS and POTUS set to depart soon.

 

[RaleighGuy]

EXECUTIVE 1 FOXTROT today is 98-0002 just departed from Heathrow to bring Jill Home, earlier than scheduled departure, SAM18 over Brussels, SAM46 & AF1 on the way to Brussels

AF1 on a strange flight path compared to SAM46. Changed call to Executive 1 Foxtrot briefly and back to AF1.

 

[AirScan]

A couple of ADW KC-135s have been working out of Finland the last few days using their DECEE callsigns.

In support of Arctic Challenge Exercise 21.

The Kallax Air Base is covered on the ESPA LiveATC feed. I checked the 9th on the archives and there is a lot of activity starting at 1100 UTC. What sounded like USAF callsigns heard were WEASEL, SNIPER, and what sounded like CYJON (?), plus others ROCKET, GREMLIN, COWBOY, ODIN.

 

[Mark]

This morning around 9AM a RCH-873 C-17 98-0056 3Wg Alaska with Dover CP says returning to base alpha 3 and
got static so didn't hear reason why.. short flight..
Came in from Germany earlier this morning.
MC873 (RCH873) Air Mobility Command Flight Tracking and History 10-Jun-2021 (KDOV-KDOV) - FlightAware

RCH-873 after Thursday failure tried again this morning test flight maybe and rtb Dover.. Really broken C-17
May get back to Alaska someday.
MC873 (RCH873) Air Mobility Command Flight Tracking and History 13-Jun-2021 (KDOV-KDOV) - FlightAware

 

[AirScan]

RCH-873 after Thursday failure tried again this morning test flight maybe and rtb Dover.. Really broken C-17

Not really clear on the archvies, asked for a return to DOV and the ZDC controller asks if they need anything and they replied "not going to declare at this time", then switched back to approach where it sounds like they said the same thing (poor reception quality).

 

[Mark]

Not really clear on the archvies, asked for a return to DOV and the ZDC controller asks if they need anything and they replied "not going to declare at this time", then switched back to approach where it sounds like they said the same thing (poor reception quality).

Seems several of the C-17's doing rtb Mil gear work out of Afghanistan are having mech problems.
Sure will be nice to get out of that sandpit and God forsaken hole in the World.
Family and friends in Alaska are prob ticked.. "You said you would be home this weekend"?
"Sorry Dear stuck in Dover with busted plane".. Life as crew in the USAF Reserve.
Dover has a couple nice Hotels on base but I bet still frustrating.

 

[SiuDude2]

Interesting hit showing on ADSBx over Windsor Castle Helo NH3, with hex of 43C290 registration XW214. Just wondering given the person there if that could be a spoof and callsign stand for NIGHTHAWK 3? Appeared about same time M1 departed.

Headed from Windsor to Heathrow as SAM18 is flying in from the west. Both FLOTUS and POTUS set to depart soon.

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Not a spoof. It was a Puma helicopter providing support for HMX-1. It normally uses a “Vortex” callsign (SHF).

ADS-B Aircraft

You can see the Puma at 1:10 in this video: