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[TinEar]

Any idea on AE1720? It's been at FL90-100 for quite a while now. I haven't been able to find anything with ATC.

Nope. Along the way, someone suggested it was a T-6A but there's nothing to prove or disprove that. However, the hex codes just above and below AE1720 are all T-6 types so it might just be one also. I wasn't able to find the voice transmissions to go with it.

 

[BM82557]

2100 local - ongoing -- EVAC 9108 has been calling on 378.1

 

[mdmonitor]

0140z 118.150 CONVOY 3770 wkg Brunswick app, request ILS runway 1R, ID as C-130.
0147z 135.200 REACH 329 heading East checking in with Moncton Center.
0203z 238.100 BUZZARD 55 wkg BUZZARD BASE at Brunswick.
0205z 118.150 BUZZARD 55 inbound vectors ILS.
0206z 135.200 REACH 4134 leaving US heading East check in with Moncton Center.

additions:
0219z 134.950 OMINI 810 wkg ZBW inbound US heading to Langley AFB B757.
0223z 134.950 REACH 7045 with ZBW climbing FL230.
0227z 134.950 REACH 6166 check in FL310.
0238z 128.750 REACH 874 with ZBW FL290.
0240z 127.125 REACH 6166 leaving U.S. checking in with Moncton Center FL310.
0249z 128.750 MARINE 101 check in FL390.
0253z 124.525 REACH 7045 check in ZBW just switched from 126.225
0256z 135.200 REACH 874 with Moncton Center just left U.S. heading East.
0259z 135.200 DUBAI 008 leaving U.S. check in with Moncton. (Anyone important or just a civil airliner??)
0316z 135.200 MARINE 101 check in with Moncton FL410.

Ed,

Buzzard 55 was down here at Pax River on Friday afternoon working with the Sail Lab

 

[TinEar]

0259z 135.200 DUBAI 008 leaving U.S. check in with Moncton. (Anyone important or just a civil airliner??)

Probably a Dubai Government/Military type Ed. The only one I've got logged with that callsign was a DUBAI 009, whose registration was A6-HHH, a Gulfstream IV. It's listed as "Dubai Air Wing" in one of the databases.

 

[CitationJet]

Re: DUBAI 008

Hi guys,

DUBAI 008 = B742 A6-GDP.

Tony

Probably a Dubai Government/Military type Ed. The only one I've got logged with that callsign was a DUBAI 009, whose registration was A6-HHH, a Gulfstream IV. It's listed as "Dubai Air Wing" in one of the databases.

 

[Mark]

Logged OCEAN 57 departing Dover this morning.
OCEAN57 05-1465 C130 115thAS/146thAW CA ANG 2008/12/21 15:55z

Mark

 

[freqhopping]

E-6B 164410 departed Pax a short time ago. Currently with ZDC-Norfolk, callsign ending with 22.
388 left earlier today but I could never find it with ATC.

1553-TRICK(?)-22 with HUNTRESS checking modes and codes, 50mi from Elizabeth City. 364.2
I could hear HUNTRESS, a female.


1635- Some AR happening on 341.75. The tanker is 58-0074 who just popped up on the RB too. Signal is weak and noisy.
REACH-463 is the receiver. 11 is the tanker. They're having issues with spray.
Are they really in AR20? Obviously they're past the IP and that's more than 550miles from me.

Pax restricted area outlines.

 

[TinEar]

E-6B 164410 departed Pax a short time ago. Currently with ZDC-Norfolk, callsign ending with 22.
388 left earlier today but I could never find it with ATC.

At 1553, he's with HUNTRESS on 364.2 for a Modes/Codes check but is very, very weak. I can just barely hear him but HUNTRESS is coming in better than the aircraft. I couldn't copy the callsign either but heard the 22 suffix and a Mode 3 of 5324. By 1555 they signed off. Amazing how easy it is to hear numbers but not words in a noisy environment and a weak signal to go along with it.
I first logged 164410 at 1531 so he was no doubt in the air for a couple of minutes by that time and is probably a couple hundred miles from Pax by the time he made contact w/HUNTRESS.

Ref above: Travis, that was kind of unusual for me to hear HUNTRESS on that freq. It has almost never happened. I wonder where she was transmitting from?

I've also been following an Egyptian Air Force Gulfstream IV (SU-BNC) as he flies overhead the area at FL 390. Picked him up at 1550. (Signal lost at 1607:38) Thought at first he may be coming to BWI like the C-130 milk run does but no joy on that one. Zipping right on by us apparently.

 

[BM82557]

Hagerstown/Thurmont

From December 23, 2008 at 1930 UTC (December 23, 2008 at 1430 EST) To December 26, 2008 at 1430 UTC (December 26, 2008 at 0930 EST)

 

[JohnFB]

The Royal New Zealand Air Force B757 was displaying RAYTHEON in his callsign block. It must be here for some kind of testing with them or to have something installed by Raytheon.

FWIW .... I saw this in one of the milair mags, too. You must have caught NZ7572.

B757 Milestone

 

[jmhayes]

You must have caught NZ7572

NZ7571 did a gas-n-go at KSFO and headed west on the 19th.

 

[Mark]

F-22's Westbound in January

12/19/2008 - HICKAM AIR FORCE BASE, Hawaii (ACCNS) -- The U.S. Air Force is scheduled to deploy two contingents of F-22A Raptors to the Pacific theater in January 2009 for approximately three months.
Current plans call for 12 of the fighters to deploy to Kadena Air Base, Japan, from Langley Air Force Base, Va., and another 12 to deploy to Andersen Air Force Base, Guam, from Elmendorf Air Force Base, Alaska. The deployments support U.S. Pacific Command's theater security packages in the Western Pacific.

0937 SENTRY 07 #71-1408 req wx at Tinker for 1930z from McGuire metro 239.800.One of the oldest E-3C's.
(ref Goliath Bravo posted below)

Mark

 

[mdmonitor]

Cg Sar

Guys,

At 0749 had CG 6509 (HH-65C, CGAS Atlantic City) report his postion as 3859N/7623W and starting his search pattern. He's working w/CG Sector Baltimore (157.15). This SAR prob rerlated to the windy, cold wx.

At 0810 CG 6507 reports search complete no results so he is RTB

 

[carbineone]

0954 Scary 1 & 2 312.3
0956 Wild flight with GK 249.8
1008 Scary 1 with zdc 285.4
1034 Colt flight with Warren Grove Range 283.1 A/A on 139.6 mentions first time back to range since closure
1047 Raven flight with Warren Grove 283.1 A/A on 141.825
1115 Royal 40 With Lakehurst tower requesting field conditions 127.775

 

[BM82557]

Activity 12/22/2008

1047 - 1049 local -- GOLIATH BRAVO (E-3 Sentry) calling off multiple tracks on GK OPS freq 373.1

Edit to add - activity continues 1052 local

 

[Tech792]

0954 Scary 1 & 2 312.3
0956 Wild flight with GK 249.8
1008 Scary 1 with zdc 285.4
1034 Colt flight with Warren Grove Range 283.1 A/A on 139.6 mentions first time back to range since closure
1047 Raven flight with Warren Grove 283.1 A/A on 141.825
1115 Royal 40 With Lakehurst tower requesting field conditions 127.775

Its nice to hear the range active again. Wonder if its open to the public as in the past. Always enjoyed trips there. (With my PRO-97 of course). Here is some photos we took on our last trip in the winter of 2007 before the fire, for any one who has never been there:

http://www.sectionb10.org/miscb10photos.html

 

[carbineone]

Tech792 they will let you in but not up in the tower due to safety reasons.

 

[Tech792]

ok thanks....thats too bad. They use to let you up in the tower. oh well.

 

[TinEar]

Its nice to hear the range active again. Wonder if its open to the public as in the past. Always enjoyed trips there. (With my PRO-97 of course). Here is some photos we took on our last trip in the winter of 2007 before the fire, for any one who has never been there:

http://www.sectionb10.org/miscb10photos.html

Nice pics. Thanks for the link. Seeing that CT-ANG A-10 working the range reminded me again of how much I miss hearing those CT and MA guys (while the units still existed) working their way to the range and then the range traffic. From here, none of it was loud and clear and was mostly a struggle to hear but that's what made it fun - trying to get the callsigns to ID the unit.

Now all we need is for the Aberdeen Range to go active once again. They had the same problem there with fires during the live ammunition work and is probably the reason we've not heard anyone working there over the past couple of years.

 

[carbineone]

Navy JT051 with PHL approach 123.8
PAT4145 with PHL approach 123.8
PAT4145 with TTN tower 120.7
Royal 40 doing practice landings on assault runway at Lakehurst 127.775
Goliath with Huntress on 288.4
Gold 51 with McGuire CP 319.4