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[BM82557]

Activity 10092007

1316 - ?? 73 reporting inbound, will need parking - 303.0
1325 - unid reporting they are heading back to Andrews via Nottingham - 354.8

 

[Mark]

1316 - ?? 73 reporting inbound, will need parking - 303.0

Heard a UTAH 73 with Torch control 303.000 probably a
KC-135 ANG 191 ARS/151 ARW Salt Lake City.

Also at least 4 C-17's from the 62AW arrived McGuire this afternoon callsign HIRE.

HIRE 41-C-17.missed it.
HIRE 81 C-17 #92-3291
HIRE 11 C-17 #99-0063
HIRE 12 C-17 #98-0055

Mark

 

[TinEar]

1316 - ?? 73 reporting inbound, will need parking - 303.0

Heard a UTAH 73 with Torch control 303.000 probably a
KC-135 ANG 191 ARS/151 ARW Salt Lake City.

That's exactly who it was. KC-135E model, tail 64-14828 from the 191st ARS.

 

[CitationJet]

10.09.2007 pm

Heard on the drive home and before an appointment...

10.09.2007 pm

1853Z 128.350 PT APP - JEDI 01 - @ 2000' QSY ADW TWR 118.400/349.000 and on a 9.5 nm final for rwy 1R.
1854Z 128.350 PT APP - SAM 1877 - TO 6000'.
1854Z 126.300 Davison AAF TWR - PAT 459 - deps rwy 32 QSY PT DEP 118.950 800' for 2000'.
1856Z 354.800 BayWatch - ????? 11 - reporting supersonic @ FL340.

1902Z 128.350 PT APP - NAVY 376 - for Andrews rwy 1R.
1907Z 126.300 Davison AAF TWR - PAT 979 - showing up unannounced per controller, landing rwy 32.
1915Z 119.300 PT APP - FOX 197 - ILS RWY 1L QSY 118.400 and on an 11 nm. final arresting gear in place.
1925Z 118.400 Andrews AFB TWR - SAM 1846 - 4 NM. L base for rwy 1L.
1931Z 118.950 PT DEP - NAVY 7W 323 - QSY PT DEP 118.675 @ 12000'.

 

[Mateo]

Hi Mateo,

According to another monitor, this was TECATE 10 (he spelled it TACATE 10 but I'm pretty sure it's TECATE as it has been for this unit in the past), T-6A 05-3798/XL from the 84th FTS/47th FTW, and VACKA/VOCKA (my bet is on VACA) 12, T-6A 97-3017/XL 85th FTS/47th FTW.

Thanks for this. I had a feeling they were Laughlin T-6s, but a tiny airplane is tough enough to pick out under ideal conditions, let alone while driving at 65MPH at dusk and not knowing exactly where to look! My guess at XL T-6s was from the Udvar-Hazy fly-in back in June, when I tied-up the T-6s under callsign TACO (or PACO) - the Mexican theme fits for a base within sight of our southern neighbours!

 

[TinEar]

Also at least 4 C-17's from the 62AW arrived McGuire this afternoon callsign HIRE.

HIRE 41-C-17.missed it.
HIRE 81 C-17 #92-3291
HIRE 11 C-17 #99-0063
HIRE 12 C-17 #98-0055

Mark

The missing tail number was 99-0064. They came in yesterday using their unit callsign - HIRE - and at least three of the four went out this morning in the 0900 hour under the THUG mission callsign...
THUG 01 98-0055
THUG 02 99-0063
THUG 03 99-0064

Dover's newest C-17A, tail 07-7169 flew this morning in the 0900 hour as RIDER 75. He returned just after 1300.

It appears the remainder of the 555th FS F-16s left Wright-Patterson this morning. I couldn't hear the fighters (too far north) but two tankers went out to meet them from this general area...BOBBY 41 (KC-10A, 86-0036, 305th AMW McGuire) in the 0700 hour followed by BOBBY 44 (KC-135R, 59-1460, 171st ARW PA-ANG Pittsburgh.) In the 0900 hour, the KC-135 returned to Pittsburth and, apparently, the KC-10 hooked up to the fighters (callsign JEST) and towed them across the Atlantic.
This KC-10 (86-0036) is the same tanker Jordan mentioned that brought them in from the Pacific three days ago.

 

[Mark]

About 1500 local REACH 306 C-17 arriving Pope AFB on CP 381.300 req customs.
Surprisingly readable this far North. No doubt Southbound from overseas thru this area.

Tin wrote: The missing tail number was 99-0064. They came in yesterday using their unit callsign - HIRE - and at least three of the four went out this morning in the 0900 hour under the THUG mission callsign...

Thanks for tie-up Tin..
Guess the Dover guys getting latest C-17 all equipped with various chains and gear and ready for service.
Like a new car the maintenence guys have to add optional operating equipment..

ref below it may have been 386 Tin as I was busy at same time also.
306 doesn't sound right anyhow...

1930 local 311.000 STEEL 62 checking on status of recievers JACKAL 41-42 and ACTOR flt of 2.
UHF working good today!

 

[TinEar]

I didn't hear REACH 306 but did have a REACH 386 (C-17A, 02-1100, 437th AW Charleston) about that same time. Might have been a different aircraft.
02-1100 did come in from Europe though. The Brits heard him in the 1000Z hour.

Had two E-6B types depart Patuxent today. One was just a few minutes ago at 1520. It was 162784 from VQ-3. He's heading due west at FL200. The earlier one left Pax at 1250 - 163918 from VQ-4. He also got on a 270 degree track and flew out of range.

At 1535, both THUG 02 and 03 appear to be heading back into McGuire. 99-0063 and 99-0064 from McChord.
One of their squadron mates is also in the area as REACH 9061 (99-0061).

A German Air Force C-160D, tail 50+96, into the area at 1544. About four hours ago he was flying over Cape Cod. No idea where he went in the meantime.
Exactly 3 hours earlier at 1244 there was a Canadian Air Force CC-144, tail 144615, from 412 Squadron in the area.

1553: BULLY flight of DC-ANG F-16s airborne from Andrews...TRACON 348.725 for climbout...to ZDC-Calvert continuing climb to FL 200...281.4....interflight freq 139.15
Second flight of DC-ANG F-16s on interflight freq 143.6...callsign WILD
1604: BULLY flight handed to ZDC-Franklin 290.425 as they head off to one of the ranges to the south apparently.
1730: WILD flight on the way home...with TRACON 270.275, with SENATE SOF 139.9 and on interflight 143.6...to ADW Tower on 349.0 at 1732...WILD 1 on the ground at 1737, WILD 2 at 1740.

1744: JEDI 31 (single ship F-22A from Langley) checking out of W-386 with Giant Killer to RTB. Reports 20 miles east of HEELS. Says he'll follow the CAJUN 11 flight (also Langley F-22As)...249.8

HAPPY BIRTHDAY to the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis. 162 years old today.

At 1606, I've got a NASA Airbus Super Guppy - N941NA - in the area. It's an amazing bird that looks like it shouldn't be able to fly. (Mark checked FlightAware which shows it going into Philadelphia.)

 

[CitationJet]

Re: 144615

Was just seen at Dulles...

Exactly 3 hours earlier at 1244 there was a Canadian Air Force CC-144, tail 144615, from 412 Squadron in the area.

 

[freqhopping]

TBD with ADIZ East 291.625 He's garbled sounding, possibly BRAVE-62.

1527- BULLY-1 departing 348.725, push to ZDC-Calvert
BOXER-13 airborne at 1550 with 23 pax. 378.1
1533- HOOK-44 with ZDC-Blue Ridge 285.6
1539- WILD-1 ZDC-Franklin
1545- WILD-1 push to ZDC-Cofield and BULLY-1 checks in with ZDC-Franklin
The BULLY flight has been asking about the other flight still on the ground, SCARY flight maybe. 139.15
1556- 1stFW tac active 315.85
1657- BULLY flight heading home, 50 mi south of ADW 281.4. Currently have ZDC-Hagerstown transmitting locallly 227.125.
1719- Coast Guard flight too weak to make out much other than something about using this freq (345.0) or 325.4.

Some BULLYs were airborne again just before 2000.
2019-SCARY-1 with ZDC-Calvert
2026-SCARY-1 checking in with ZDC-Norfolk at FL260 -327.8
2033- SCARY-1 requesting to go to the Pan(?) A/B airspace, heading 160
2127- BULLYs1,2,and 3 on the way home. Passing the WX to the flight on V6, goggles off.
2138- JEDI-21 with ZDC-Irons 360.85
2145- JEDI-21 to TRACON 128.35, requesting vectors to Mudville Island then ADW.

 

[BM82557]

Activity 10112007

2044 - SAM 1897 with Andrews CP, 1/2 hour out reporting status as alpha 3 - 378.1

 

[DPD1]

At 1606, I've got a NASA Airbus Super Guppy - N941NA - in the area. It's an amazing bird that looks like it shouldn't be able to fly. (Mark checked FlightAware which shows it going into Philadelphia.)

Nice... The unique ones are always cool.

Dave
www.DPDProductions.com
Makers of the "MilTenna" Monitoring Antenna

 

[Mark]

Navy Pilot OK After Atlantic Crash


VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (AP) -- A Navy pilot was pulled safely from the water Thursday after his fighter jet went down in the Atlantic Ocean about 70 miles off Virginia, the military said.

The pilot, the only person aboard the F/A-18 jet, was rescued by the Coast Guard after he ejected around 4 p.m., said Navy spokesman Lt. Cmdr. David Nunnally.

He was flown to Sentara Norfolk General Hospital, where he was being treated for injuries not believed to be life-threatening.

The Navy asked the Coast Guard for help after it lost contact with the jet off the North Carolina coast, said Coast Guard spokesman Christopher Evanson.

The fighter jet was part of the VFA-87 squadron known as the "Golden Warriors" based at Oceana Naval Air Station in Virginia Beach

 

[TinEar]

As has been mentioned here, the 104th Fighter Wing MA-ANG got rid of all its A-10 aircraft per BRAC. According to the Wing Commander in the October 'Airscoop' monthly publication (distributed today), they now have four F-15s and will have 10 by November of the eventual total of 20.

I haven't heard any traffic by those F-15s that could be identified as belonging to the 104th. I also have received no information from MilAir listeners up that way of callsigns used by these new F-15s. It seems doubtful to me that they'd keep the old A-10 callsigns so we need to be on the lookout for them operating in the offshore areas. I don't know if they'll move over to work in W-107 (closest to this area) or keep operating primarily in W-105 (closest to Massachusetts.) I'm listening for them though.
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THUG 01 (99-0063), THUG 02 (99-0064) and THUG 03 (92-3291) - C-17A transports from the 62nd AW McChord AFB WA are operating in the 1100 hour out of McGuire. This time 98-0055 is left out of the mix. He flew separately as THUG 04 in the 1000 hour.

Lots of KC-135 tankers also flying this morning. DC 51 (62-3556) and DC 52 (62-3543) are up from Andrews and others from both the PA-ANG and NY-ANG have been noted.
One of Dover's C-17As is flying (06-6167) under the ROYAL 50 flag.
Executive 1 Foxtrot also noted up at 1000 (C-40B, 01-0041, 1st AS Andrews)
Air Force 1 went out around 0800 (VC-25A, 92-9000, 1st AS Andrews)
E-6B (164404, VQ-4) coming across Virginia heading for Pax it appears in first half of 1200 hour.

Only one foreign flag noted so far today:
Canadian Air Force - CANFORCE 3011 (CC-144, tail 144618)

Since it's Friday, there is a very large contingent of LBE aircraft in the sky hauling LBs hither and yon at great expense.

 

[wildbillx]

2:30pm hearing Bicep up on 138.425 with a couple F-16s from 177th, also 139.150 is active with inter flight talk.

 

[Mark]

A few Heavies I got on tape today..


REACH 365 KC-10 #79-1711 arrive McGuire 1415z

REACH 9010 C-5 arrive Dover 1600z,120k of cargo.
Rare old Altus OK training C-5A 69-0010.never heard by me in Dover before.

REACH 354 KC-10 #79-0434 arrive Andrews

REACH 7142 KC-135 #57-1427 depart Dover 1618z

REACH 995 C-5 #87-0029 arrive Dover 1630z to repair radar
before next stop Moron

Mark

 

[freqhopping]

I now know the explanation for why I saw about 6 helicopters in trail this morning heading south from Arlington around 9:00am. Twelve soldiers killed in a helo crash in Iraq earlier this year were buried at Arlington National Cemetery. Just before that I saw a CH-47 heading north by I-66/495.

2017- COBRA-72 (Open Skies) calling Leesburg Radio 255.4 74 mi west of AML, request departure message be sent to KOFF with an ETA of 0215Z, departed at 0002Z.
2028- Coast Guard chatter on 379.05 30min ETA, will land with 17k fuel. There was some CG chatter earlier on 379.05 and 345.0.

 

[BM82557]

Activi 10122007

2041 local - ongoing -- 3 tankers with ar ops, on interflight of 139.875. By 2054 they are getting pretty faint.
2111 - still active, copied 55, 57 & 58 - 139.875

 

[TinEar]

2041 local - ongoing -- 3 tankers with ar ops, on interflight of 139.875. By 2054 they are getting pretty faint.
2111 - still active, copied 55, 57 & 58 - 139.875

Three TEAMs from the 305th AMW McGuire. Their tails are 79-1712, 85-0027, 87-0121.

 

[CitationJet]

10.10-11.2007

Hi guys,

A few from brief monitoring sessions Wednesday and Thursday afternoons:

PT = Potomac Consolidated TRACON
ZDC = Washington ARTCC

10.10.2007 pm

1810Z 311.000 STEEL Control - STEEL 71 (KC-135R 171st ARW PA ANG) - clg here no
further comms copied.
1811Z 128.350 PT APP - NAVY JR 093 (C-20G 165093 VR-48 NAF Washington) - deps
ADW @ 2000' for practice apps to rwy 19L.
1814Z 128.350 PT APP - NAVY 378 (C-37B 166378 VR-1 NAF Washington) - 3000' for
2000' for the ILS rwy 19L.
1817Z 119.300 PT APP - PACER 13 (C-21A 457th AS) - 4000' for 3000' req. NDB 19R
circle to land 19L.
1826Z 125.350 Andrews Final GCA - NAVY 378 (C-37B 166378 VR-1 NAF Washington) -
setting up the ILS app to rwy 19L.
1837Z 139.400 Davison AAF Ops "DAVEY OPS" - PAT 0104 (UC-35B 99-0104) - inbound
req. fuel and fixed wing parking tail #90104.

10.11.2007 pm

1812Z 281.400 ZDC-Calvert - SHADOW 20 (E-6B VQ-3) - checks in @ FL240
1818Z 125.650 PT DEP - EVAC 91431 - to 17000' QSY ZDC-Calvert 133.900.
1820Z 118.950 PT DEP - MARINE 384 - deps ADW 1600' for 3000' cleared to 9000'
dir FLUKY.
1822Z 270.350 ZDC-Shenandoah - SHADOW 20 (E-6B VQ-3) - FL270 cleared to FL290
then req. FL340 as final.
1827Z 126.300 Davison AAF TWR - PAT 1507 (C-26B 91-0507) - deps rwy 32 QSY
118.950 800' for 2000' cleared to 8000' and dir CHO QSY PT APP 124.650.