Sticky Thread For Mid-Atlantic MilAir 2021

[BM82557]

New Wilmington TFR -- 1/1955 NOTAM Details

Effective Date(s):
		From August 20, 2021 at 1630 UTC (August 20, 2021 at 1230 EDT)
		To August 23, 2021 at 0130 UTC (August 22, 2021 at 2130 ED

 

[Mark]

1402- Hearing some weak trfc on ZNY Elmira (298.9). No calls heard. Same voices now on ZNY Phillipsburg (306.2) Maybe the B-2s heading home? Hearing Tigers chatting on A-A (319.5).

Ron the other day SPADE flight inbound was chatting A/A 319.500 as well.. May have been them.

This Boeing vid looks like Pax River.. Maybe the new mystery AE66D6 seen recently on this board?
Boeing Defense on Twitter: "Another #MQ25 refueling in the books. The T1 test asset just refueled a @USNavy E-2D Hawkeye command-and-control aircraft. This is the unmanned aerial refueler's second refueling mission. https://t.co/53R8HdcvFB" / Twitter

 

[mdmonitor]

Ron the other day SPADE flight inbound was chatting A/A 319.500 as well.. May have been them.

Mark

That makes more sense.

Sounded to me like there were 3 voices. They were chatting about Landover Field and the name of the used-to-be Redskins.

Thanks

 

[mdmonitor]

Getting for the first time signals on 138.075 but only a heavy "white noise" type audio. This freq has been in the scanner for several years with no joy. Now it's busy. MDANG maybe?

138.075 is P-25 encrypted. Could be a number of local users, MD ANG, Coast Guard, MD ArNG, DHS,

 

[Mark]

Maybe why all those Travis,McGuire KC-10's to the Mideast.. Feeding thirsty F/18's in theatre with their hoses.

Navy Fighters Are Flying Armed Overwatch Missions Over Kabul (thedrive.com)

 

[freqhopping]

Ron the other day SPADE flight inbound was chatting A/A 319.500 as well.. May have been them.

This Boeing vid looks like Pax River.. Maybe the new mystery AE66D6 seen recently on this board?

No, I posted last night that AE66D6 was WIZARD41, likely P-8A. Certainly manned.

 

[Tech792]

1620- TBIRD 15 departed ACY headed NW into PA

 

[Mark]

1620- TBIRD 15 departed ACY headed NW into PA

Rgr I see them off to Scranton then home to Little Rock. Saw TBIRD 14 earlier making that same trip.
Maybe someone else will come get them at end of airshow weekend up there.
Kind of a pricey airshow just 2.5 hours long and mainly just for T-Birds.. Shaded grandstand seats $50? Air Show Main Page (poconoraceway.com)
Bet they will have lot of fans parked a ways outside track instead
From web page.. All guests are required to have a ticket or purchase a ticket for the grandstand. Watching the show from the parking lots will NOT be permitted.


THBRD15 Flight Tracking and History 19-Aug-2021 (KACY-KAVP) - FlightAware
THBRD14 Flight Tracking and History 19-Aug-2021 (KAVP-KLRF) - FlightAware

 

[Hbright]

KC-135R TOPCAT7 62-3544 AE05A7

heard on Dover Tower 126.350

out from McGuire

 

[ra7850]

Rgr I see them off to Scranton then home to Little Rock. Saw TBIRD 14 earlier making that same trip.
Maybe someone else will come get them at end of airshow weekend up there.
Kind of a pricey airshow just 2.5 hours long and mainly just for T-Birds.. Shaded grandstand seats $50? Air Show Main Page (poconoraceway.com)
Bet they will have lot of fans parked a ways outside track instead
From web page.. All guests are required to have a ticket or purchase a ticket for the grandstand. Watching the show from the parking lots will NOT be permitted.


THBRD15 Flight Tracking and History 19-Aug-2021 (KACY-KAVP) - FlightAware
THBRD14 Flight Tracking and History 19-Aug-2021 (KAVP-KLRF) - FlightAware

Does anyone know if they are just going to fly-in for the show, land somewhere near there (AVP) then do both shows then depart? Or possible the nearest AFB, Dover or McGuire? I might head up to that are, nowhere near the track of course to see what can be seen and heard.

Robert

 

[BM82557]

WWII vet jumps from a plane on his 100th birthday | CNN

Tom Rice, a US paratrooper during World War II, jumped from a restored D-Day plane and landed on a beach in his hometown to celebrate his 100th birthday.

www.cnn.com

 

[GriffissSpotter]

Spade 41 id'ed as flt of 2.

1415- Spade 31 (id as 2) working ZNY Harrisburg (270.3).

Ron, can you confirm this? I have one jet unaccounted for if it's only two flights of 2. I went to check these guys out yesterday and there was only 4 out of 5 on the flight line. This was right after (YANKY 84/169536/Stewart ANGB) stopped by Griffiss from MCAS Cherry Point, I figured the 5th Harrier broke down and they pulled it into a hangar to fix it and YANKY brought people or something that it needed. YANKY 84 then flew to KMSN which made me doubt that it was bringing the crews back to Cherry Point. There hasn't been anymore Marines KC-130s that have been to Griffiss since, to my knowledge. This leads me to believe that either one of those flights was a 3 ship or there is still one Harrier at Griffiss.

 

[Mark]

Does anyone know if they are just going to fly-in for the show, land somewhere near there (AVP) then do both shows then depart? Or possible the nearest AFB, Dover or McGuire? I might head up to that are, nowhere near the track of course to see what can be seen and heard.

Robert

Safe bet is they are staging at Wilkes-barre-Scranton airport. Wherever the T-Bird support planes go you will find the T-Birds.

2135 local See ADXB RCH-266 C-5M #69-0024 inbound Spain tonight from Dover.. Must need help when they drag this C-5M into service.
Doesn't get out much these days.. The only former USAF C-5A that was upgraded to C-5M specs.

 

[ra7850]

Safe bet is they are staging at Scranton Wilkes-barre airport. Wherever the T-Bird support planes go you will find the T-Birds.

I'll check tomorrow I'm only about 25 minutes from KAVP

Robert

 

[RaleighGuy]

Friday 2:05pm President will travel to Wilmington, Delaware. The departure will be from from Fort Lesley J. McNair with arrival at Delaware Air National Guard Base

 

[ra7850]

I'll check tomorrow I'm only about 25 minutes from KAVP

Robert

As an update I was just told but have not confirmed that they are on the ground at KAVP.

 

[GriffissSpotter]

OTIS 24 eastbound, passing over Lake Erie from MCAS Miramar. Anyone know if it's dragging anything?

 

[RaleighGuy]

On Friday at 9:15PM EDT, the Vice President will depart Washington, DC en route Singapore. The departure will be from Joint Base Andrews, and the arrival at Paya Lebar Air Base on Saturday, August 21

 

[mdmonitor]

Ron, can you confirm this? I have one jet unaccounted for if it's only two flights of 2. I went to check these guys out yesterday and there was only 4 out of 5 on the flight line. This was right after (YANKY 84/169536/Stewart ANGB) stopped by Griffiss from MCAS Cherry Point, I figured the 5th Harrier broke down and they pulled it into a hangar to fix it and YANKY brought people or something that it needed. YANKY 84 then flew to KMSN which made me doubt that it was bringing the crews back to Cherry Point. There hasn't been anymore Marines KC-130s that have been to Griffiss since, to my knowledge. This leads me to believe that either one of those flights was a 3 ship or there is still one Harrier at Griffiss.

Griff

I posted that Spade 31 was flt of 2 but I could have mis-heard that. Later, as they passed over the DC area and were spotting places like Landover Field (just outside DC) I heard 3 voices in the chat. So I'm leaning towards Spade 31 flt being 3 acft.

 

[mdmonitor]

This all belongs to the Taliban now:

Press info:
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...
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