Exercise at AAC Netheravon

[Mr.ETUL]

Evening all,

While touring the UK last friday we accidently bumped into an exercise wich was taking place at Netheravon/Salisbury
Plain. Lot's of helo activity from/to here and noted were several Lynx AH.7's, Sea King's, Chinook's, Merlin's and also
tdy based here were 6 Apache AH.1's. Anyone out there for the serials of these 6? Pfff, reading off serials of UK
Apache's... a spotters nightmare!

Cheers, Mr.ETUL

[jreijmer]

Following were seen at Netheravon on the 17-7-2009 between aprox. 10 and 12

Apache AH1 6X
Chinook HC2 (ZA714)/AV nm
Chinook HC2A ZH895 nm
Lynx AH7 XZ216,XZ654,XZ674 1Regt
Merlin HC3A ZJ990/AA,ZJ995/AD 28/78sq
Sea King ASaC7 ZD636/182-CU,+1 857sq
Sea King HC4+ (ZF124)/L 845sq

So also looking for the Apache serials.

MTIA
Jeroen

[Le Addeur noir]

Reported by some Dutch spotters here on 17 July were the following,

Apache AH.1 3/4 Regt

ZJ168
ZJ190
ZJ195
ZJ209
ZJ220
ZJ233

plus one

Others

ZD636 CU-(1)82 Sea King AsAC.7 with ZE420 189

XZ654 Lynx AH.7 1 Regt plus XZ216 (XZ674-possibly from this unit was noted at Northolt last week,and may also be here).

ZF124 F Sea King HC.4

[Pongo-Pilot]

I can confirm that the following Lynx Mk 7 aircraft were at Netheravon for the exercise mentioned:

XZ 216
XZ 654
XZ 674

They are all based at Gütersloh, 1 Regt AAC.

XZ 674 was indeed at RAF Northolt the week prior - it was me flying it!

[erik_kamphuis]

Seen at and around Netheravon on sunday july 19th between 15.00-16.10h:
Merlin HC3A (ZJ995)/AD on grass
Chinook HC2A ZH895 on grass
2x Sea King ASaC7 on base (should be ZD636/CU-182 and ZE420/189)
4x Apache AH1 on base (right from Sea Kings)
1x Apache landing for hotrefuelling outside base at 16.05h, on photo could be read "Z..58", so it should be ZJ168?

2 Chinooks were seen taking off near road nr.338 (so the 2nd should be ZA714/AV ?)

preserved at the gate were Gazelle AH1 XZ346 and Scout AH1 (XV13)6.

Maybe anyone can help me with the other Apache's? (I know there were 6 or 7 sunday).

Another question: at RAF Upavon (close to Netheravon) we saw 5 gliders outside, most of them all in red covers. One was read as "JLG" in red on tail, is this a civil glider and were the RAF gliders inside???

TIA,
Erik

[Crouze]

Gents,


There were six Apache AH.1's present on Sunday morning the 19th (between 08:00 and 10:00 that is). Some flew which were easy to read off while refuelling, others were more difficult but couldn't hide from my 60x scope, but one still managed to defy identification...

ZJ168
ZJ190
ZJ209
ZJ220
ZJ233
ZJ...


Cheers,
Marco

[Pongo-Pilot]

Missing Apache - ZJ 195

[Crouze]

Missing Apache - ZJ 195

Thanks!

[perry dirkx]

Hi,

Six were also seen on Monday morning the 20th, can anybody confirm these were the same?

MTIA

Perry

[Pongo-Pilot]

Hi,

Six were also seen on Monday morning the 20th, can anybody confirm these were the same?

MTIA

Perry

Yes they were.

[perry dirkx]

Hi,

Six were also seen on Monday morning the 20th, can anybody confirm these were the same?

MTIA

Perry

Yes they were.

thanks!

btw, nice lynx flying @ the FARP