Sticky Thread For Mid-Atlantic MilAir 2022

[mdmonitor]

1545- Bando 97 (E-6B # 164387 VQ-4 Det) transiting our area. Left PAX at 1330 then went out and made big loop around Harrisburg and is now off the DE/NJ coast.

 

[N4TX]

Epic 34, a C-17, landed at MRB at 1355 Local, coming from Stewart ANG Base in New York.

And at 1545L, he's off MRB and heading south.

 

[AirScan]

0805- Reach 405 (C-17 # 04-4133 6th AS) off BWI (119.4). Didn't hear him arrive & he took off to the west out of my view. C-17 is rare visitor into BWI. Worked Potomac (124.55) & ZDC Baltimore (134.5) on way out. He's heading northeast.

Looks like RCH 405 was going to Thule/BGTL. Maybe supplementing the weekly ATN 520 flight that operates that route ? What is it about KBWI that flights to BGTL originate from there every week ? I seem to recall that ATN has been operating that KBWI-BGTL route for years.

 

[mdmonitor]

Looks like RCH 405 was going to Thule/BGTL. Maybe supplementing the weekly ATN 520 flight that operates that route ? What is it about KBWI that flights to BGTL originate from there every week ? I seem to recall that ATN has been operating that KBWI-BGTL route for years.

Air

Icelandic Air also operated out of BWI

 

[N4TX]

Air

Icelandic Air also operated out of BWI

Just a guess, but maybe the USG had some classified freight that it didn't want to send on a commercial carrier.

 

[N4TX]

And at 1545L, he's off MRB and heading south.

He's landing at 1642L at Charlotte International. That's Epic 34, a C-17.

 

[mdmonitor]

1450- Maine 87 (KC-135R # 63-8873 ME ANG Bangor) check-in w/Bay Watch (305.2) for work w/MD AND A-10s (Wardog) in the PAX areas. MD ANG guys on 266.6, 271.4 & 293.3. A-10 & Kc-135 using 355.8 (Bay Watch freq) as boom freq.

 

[Tech792]

1737- Hearing MD RAVEN guys again tonight A/A 266.6 at Warren Grove range 283.1

 

[KO4RJX]

He's landing at 1642L at Charlotte International. That's Epic 34, a C-17.

North Carolina ANG

 

[wbagley]

1545- Bando 97 (E-6B # 164387 VQ-4 Det) transiting our area. Left PAX at 1330 then went out and made big loop around Harrisburg and is now off the DE/NJ coast.

Plenty of E-6 activity today.

 

[Mark]

Looks like RCH 405 was going to Thule/BGTL. Maybe supplementing the weekly ATN 520 flight that operates that route ? What is it about KBWI that flights to BGTL originate from there every week ? I seem to recall that ATN has been operating that KBWI-BGTL route for years.

Guess good supply depot and Customs service for Mil at BWI. Also may or used to start the cargo/pax shuttles way down to Ascension Island
after Patrick AFB Florida stop. Like the commercial BWI motto should ask "Want to get way away"?
Air Transport International - Wikipedia
I like that old 1963 James Bond movie "Goldfinger" when on private jet from Switzerland pilots says "Our port of entry into the US is
Friendship Airport Balt MD"

 

[mdmonitor]

Plenty of E-6 activity today.


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Bill

A little odd. All the callsigns end with "O" or "Y" except for one.

 

[RaleighGuy]

POTUS has no travel on schedule for tomorrow, maybe a rare weekend in DC.

 

[jsoergel]

IRONCLAW 01 eastbound with ZOB 307.075 > 363.075. Had IRONCLAW 02 following the same path about 90 mins prior.

 

[Mark]

2110 local Someone on Philly apch 319.150 looking for approach to runway 27.Don't get this freq active very often.
Didn't sound like fighter.. callsign something 91 down to 5k. Got that wrong.
Philly apch live ATC PHL tower sounded like IRONCLAW-01 single ship cleared landing runway 27.
Listening to: KPHL Tower (East/West) #2 | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States | LiveATC.net
2131 local IRONCLAW-01 taxing on PHL tower going to Atlantic Aviation.
Ok I'll bite. Who the heck is IRONCLAW?

 

[Mark]

Fort Indiantown National Guard a busy place
DVIDS - News - Fort Indiantown Gap among busiest National Guard training centers in FY22 (dvidshub.net)

Odd road trivia down here near Delaware the DE Newport-Gap Pike rte 41 runs up into Pa and across the PA State line the
road becomes the PA Gap-Newport Pike

 

[AirScan]

Ok I'll bite. Who the heck is IRONCLAW?

ID'd by PHL APR as an F-18. Long way from home if it's these guys...

IRON CLAW EA-18G VAQ-136 (NF) Atsugi JA

Probably not related (?) but at the same time PHL APR was working HOIST 81 into McGuire. Looks like they were AR with someone way out in Edwards AFB complex.

 

[Mark]

ID'd by PHL APR as an F-18. Long way from home if it's these guys...
Probably not related (?) but at the same time PHL APR was working HOIST 81 into McGuire. Looks like they were AR with someone way out in Edwards AFB complex.

Rgr saw HOIST-81 head to West Coast the other day and back today..
I know at KILG the single rare Navy F-18 visitor also use Atlantic Aviation.. They must have a fuel DOD credit card account with them
KPHL is a odd stop for these guys. From coms those F/18G's sure have nice quiet radios.. No masked fighter sounds etc course he was
coasting down in altitude when I caught it.

 

[jsoergel]

IRONCLAW is indeed VAQ-136, but they are based at Whidbey now. Possible freqs if they fly together tomorrow: 333.300, 348.100, 373.850, 375.950.

 

[mdmonitor]

VIP Movement Summary (does not include POTUS, VPOTUS, FLOTUS travel)

DATE: 17 Nov

SAM 250 C-32 # 09-0016) Hickam-ADW
SAM 656 (C-37 # 09-0525) ADW-Montgomery AL-ADW
SAM 000 (C-37 # 97-0400) ADW-Key West FL
SAM 619 (C-37 # 06-0500) Boston-ADW
SAM 527 (C-37 # 99-0404) ADW-Miami