Post by vickersfour on Jun 28, 2010 21:16:40 GMT 1
I was off on leave this past week and got out to a few military bases. Here are some photos and notes I took on my travels.
My first stop was the ‘Wings and Wheels’ Air Display/Fly-in on at Wickenby on Sunday the 20th. The only miltary participant was the Lancaster, which gave four spirited fly throughs.
PA474
Monday 21st was spent at Coningsby. The 6 Squadron Typhoon’s were not yet wearing squadron markings but did have codes and they were using callsign ‘Turbo’.
Active Typhoon noted:
3 Squadron
ZJ920:Q-OA ZJ921:QO-H ZJ926:QO-Y ZJ936:QO-S
ZJ936
6 Squadron
ZK302:EA ZK304:EB ZK305:EB ZK306:ED
ZK306
11 squadron
ZJ924:DD ZJ929:DL ZJ939:DXI ZJ942:DH
ZJ939
17 (R) Squadron
ZJ912:AB ZJ913:AC ZJ930:AA ZJ946:AD (operated by 6 Squadron)
ZJ913
29 (R) Squadron
ZJ809:BH ZJ812:BK
ZJ812
The based 41 (R) Squadron only mustered a pair of Harriers (ZD437:EB-J & ZG857:EB-Z).
ZG857
Visitors were limited to a couple of Cranwells King Air’s (G-RAFP & ZK454), 100 squadron Hawk (XX329:CA) and two Tucano (ZF137 & ZF169) from Linton.
Tuesday 22nd took me to Mildenhall and Lakenheath in the morning with a quick stop at Cottesmore on the way back to Manchester.
Mildenhall provided my highlight of the week in the shape of a Turkish Air Force Hercules (63-3189). A couple of visiting KC-135 (68-0103 92 ARW & 57-1440 22 ARW) also added interest along with a couple of based MC-130, one of which (MC-130P 66-0220) was using callsign ‘Marco’, which is a new one to me.
63-3189
58-0103
66-0220
Lakenheath launched around a dozen F-15 in the morning. F-15’s of note were the F-15E 01-2004 which wears the 48 FW Wing markings and two of the F-15C’s (84-0010 & 84-0015) with kill markings. On March 22nd 1991 whilst with the 36 TFW, the pair were enforceing the no fly zone in place after Gulf War 1 had ended. One of them (‘010) shot down an Su-22 with (‘015) getting the pilot of a PC-9 (which was accompanying the Su-22) to eject simply by getting on his tail.
01-2004
84-0010
Cottesmore was very quiet with only two GR9’s (ZD438 & ZG506) and a T12 (ZH657) flying whilst I was there, all were in 800 squadron markings. The 801 Squadron markings that were on the fin of the Royal Navy jets has now been dropped.
ZD438
ZH657
I didn’t get out Wednesday, but the afternoon of Thursday 24th saw me at Valley. Both 19 and 208 were pretty busy. SARTU were operating a former/on loan from 84 Squadron AB412 (ZJ703). The military visitors consisting of a Hawk from FRADU (XX159) and 100 squadron (XX246) with the Belgian’s providing a Falcon 20 (CM-02).
ZJ703
XX159
CM-02
Active 4 FTS Hawks:
19 (R) Squadron
XX158,188,189,204,236,247,286,312,317 plus T2's ZK026,029 & 032.
XX247
ZK029
208 (R) Squadron
XX156,167,181,185,187,194,231,245,307 & 324 which was un-marked.
XX167
Friday afternoon I visited a very quiet Warton, with only two of the Trials Fleet Typhoons (ZJ699 and ZJ700) and one Harrier GR9 (ZD465) making it into the air. The only visitor was a Valley Hawk (XX220) doing an ILS to overshoot.
ZD465
Cheers
Shaun
My first stop was the ‘Wings and Wheels’ Air Display/Fly-in on at Wickenby on Sunday the 20th. The only miltary participant was the Lancaster, which gave four spirited fly throughs.
PA474
Monday 21st was spent at Coningsby. The 6 Squadron Typhoon’s were not yet wearing squadron markings but did have codes and they were using callsign ‘Turbo’.
Active Typhoon noted:
3 Squadron
ZJ920:Q-OA ZJ921:QO-H ZJ926:QO-Y ZJ936:QO-S
ZJ936
6 Squadron
ZK302:EA ZK304:EB ZK305:EB ZK306:ED
ZK306
11 squadron
ZJ924:DD ZJ929:DL ZJ939:DXI ZJ942:DH
ZJ939
17 (R) Squadron
ZJ912:AB ZJ913:AC ZJ930:AA ZJ946:AD (operated by 6 Squadron)
ZJ913
29 (R) Squadron
ZJ809:BH ZJ812:BK
ZJ812
The based 41 (R) Squadron only mustered a pair of Harriers (ZD437:EB-J & ZG857:EB-Z).
ZG857
Visitors were limited to a couple of Cranwells King Air’s (G-RAFP & ZK454), 100 squadron Hawk (XX329:CA) and two Tucano (ZF137 & ZF169) from Linton.
Tuesday 22nd took me to Mildenhall and Lakenheath in the morning with a quick stop at Cottesmore on the way back to Manchester.
Mildenhall provided my highlight of the week in the shape of a Turkish Air Force Hercules (63-3189). A couple of visiting KC-135 (68-0103 92 ARW & 57-1440 22 ARW) also added interest along with a couple of based MC-130, one of which (MC-130P 66-0220) was using callsign ‘Marco’, which is a new one to me.
63-3189
58-0103
66-0220
Lakenheath launched around a dozen F-15 in the morning. F-15’s of note were the F-15E 01-2004 which wears the 48 FW Wing markings and two of the F-15C’s (84-0010 & 84-0015) with kill markings. On March 22nd 1991 whilst with the 36 TFW, the pair were enforceing the no fly zone in place after Gulf War 1 had ended. One of them (‘010) shot down an Su-22 with (‘015) getting the pilot of a PC-9 (which was accompanying the Su-22) to eject simply by getting on his tail.
01-2004
84-0010
Cottesmore was very quiet with only two GR9’s (ZD438 & ZG506) and a T12 (ZH657) flying whilst I was there, all were in 800 squadron markings. The 801 Squadron markings that were on the fin of the Royal Navy jets has now been dropped.
ZD438
ZH657
I didn’t get out Wednesday, but the afternoon of Thursday 24th saw me at Valley. Both 19 and 208 were pretty busy. SARTU were operating a former/on loan from 84 Squadron AB412 (ZJ703). The military visitors consisting of a Hawk from FRADU (XX159) and 100 squadron (XX246) with the Belgian’s providing a Falcon 20 (CM-02).
ZJ703
XX159
CM-02
Active 4 FTS Hawks:
19 (R) Squadron
XX158,188,189,204,236,247,286,312,317 plus T2's ZK026,029 & 032.
XX247
ZK029
208 (R) Squadron
XX156,167,181,185,187,194,231,245,307 & 324 which was un-marked.
XX167
Friday afternoon I visited a very quiet Warton, with only two of the Trials Fleet Typhoons (ZJ699 and ZJ700) and one Harrier GR9 (ZD465) making it into the air. The only visitor was a Valley Hawk (XX220) doing an ILS to overshoot.
ZD465
Cheers
Shaun
