TinEar
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HOIST 94 departed McGuire for whatever mission it has at Langley. (At 1520, a monitor in Georgia reports there's a HOIST 95 dragging a FIRST 11-16 flight of F-22 Raptors to NAS New Orleans. Don't know if this is the same KC-10 heard as 94 or if it's a second one.)
Edit: An hour or so later confirmed there was a second KC-10 using HOIST 95. The original HOIST 94 had another Raptor flight in tow using callsign FIRST 21. Number of F-22s in that flight is unknown.
REACH 361 is arriving from the west coast where it was logged at 0600 our time.
COBRA 72 (OC-135B, 61-2672, 45th RS) coming into the area around 1320. It's arriving from the UK where it had been flying as OPEN SKIES 12T through yesterday.
1347: COBRA 72 with Andrews Tower for landing runway 1L...118.4
Late 1200 hour I had a Pakistani Air Force Gulfstream 4 through the area. Tail was J756. It has been logged down south the past few days. Last noted passing over ACK so perhaps on his way home....or not.
Also late 1200 hour I had a Dover C-17A (07-7173) scoot out of there using callsign VOLT 24. I had records of other C-17 units using that callsign but this is the first time I've noted Dover using it. OTOH, perhaps my memory has gone to hell.
Kind of interesting to me (and perhaps to no one else) is trying to follow the callsigns used by the E-4B types from the 1st ACCS. They use one-time calls. Aircraft 74-0787 has had some interesting ones this month:
16 AUG - KIRK 64
15 AUG - KIRK 76
14 AUG - BUTCH 45
13 AUG - TILLY 32
11 AUG - PURDY 95
09 AUG - TROPO 22
08 AUG - TREGO 89 (Used 03 & 06 AUG also)
A couple of those are difficult to understand if heard on a noisy freq.
1220: RAVEN, flight of four A-10s from the MD-ANG at Martin State heard with arrival message to RAVEN Ops on 347.2. A couple of minutes later they came up with MTN Tower 297.2 where the flight leader explained numbers 2/3/4 would land but flight leader wanted to do some low approaches. Granted. 2/3/4 touched down at 1231, number 1 made four low approaches and on the fifth approach he finally touched down at 1240.
1345: REACH 176 (C-17A, 06-6167, 436th AW Dover) w/Andrews CP for arrival message. Apparently, Andrews doesn't have the flight on its log so there's a bunch of back-and-forth about the authorization had been received, etc. Asking for Customs/Ag so coming from overseas. I notice it was last logged in Scotland at 0633 our time this morning. Explains he's the Capstone mission. Also has a D/V on board that needs to catch another flight so special arrangements for him requested....378.1
1350: For you NASCAR fans, Jimmy Johnson's Learjet 31 (N480JJ) flying overhead at FL 320. Jeff Gordon's plane was noted last night. Racing in Michigan this weekend.
1355: VADER 04 [maybe...arrived at Andrews last night using that callsign but is on a medical mission so might now be using an EVAC callsign. I missed the call but know he's the one climbing out] (C-130H, 89-9104, 758th AS Pittsburgh) departs Andrews...118.4
1359: BOXER 099 (C-38A, 94-1569, 201st AS DC-ANG Andrews) wearing out the pattern around Andrews for the past 35 minutes...118.4
1443: Flight of four F-16s from NJ-ANG heading home to ACY...currently with ACY Approach 327.125 and on interflight 138.425
1448: Interflight 143.6 active - probably F-16s from DC-ANG at Andrews...confirmed SCARY flight of three.
1448: BATON 92 (EC-130J, 99-1933, 193rd SOS PA-ANG Harrisburg) trying to give arrival message to BATON Command...mentions 35 passengers and one baggage pallet aboard, 12K on the fuel...has trouble communicating and says he'll call again when he gets closer....395.1 (Calls back at 1453 and repeats the message. This aircraft has been logged down south in Georgia and Florida for the past few days.)
1453: SCARY flight giving mission report to SOF...38 miles to the south...139.9
1455: SCARY calling Potomac Approach....270.275 (no joy x3...flt ldr tells flight to switch to 335.5)
1455: SCARY to Potomac Approach, requests descent to 6,000 and non-standard 3 miles front to back formation...335.5
1456: BATON 20 gets parking in Spot 5 and wants to know if someone is there to unload the baggage pallet...395.1
1457: SCARY flight handed to Andrews Tower and check in 10 miles to the south...349.0
1502: SCARY flight leader asking permission for 2-3 circuits...349.0
1505: SCARY 3 lands...1 and 2 going around again...349.0
1509: SCARY 1 reports he'll chase 2 for a close (of the formation) and then full stop...349.0
1513: SCARY 1 and 2 report gear down and are finally done...349.0
And that's enough logging. It's on to normal Saturday stuff outside for me.
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