Log South Korea

[Ronaldsnl]

Dear all,

Last week we visited Korea for the Seoul Airshow at Cheongju from 25-27 of October. Of course we also visited some bases in the neighbourhood. At first we went to Suwon but we were not sure the RF-4C was still flying.

Suwon 22-10-2013
We arrived here at 4PM, on the way we saw 2 F16’s making an overshoot. This enhanced our worries that the RF-4C was already replaced by the F16. Seeing 2 RF-4C’s as a decoy was also not good for our moods….. Further nothing was flying.

Suwon 23-10-2013
At first we only saw F-5’s making several T&G’s. Around 11am we saw 2 F4’s flying but very far away. Nothing happened further. But at 1130 2 RF-4C’s made an overshoot, went in a break, releasing the very well known hoooowling sound of an unmodified J79engine clearly announcing to the whole Suwon area: The RF-4C is still alive and kicking in Korea!!! In the afternoon 4 more flew. Pictures are in the photoforum.

131FS
RF-4C 41-001, 41-009, 41-026, 50-836, 68-549, 70-435

101 FS
KF-5E 10-623, 10-589, 10-565
KF-5F 10-611, 10-600, 10-613 F-5F 50-739

201 FS
KF-5E 10-579, 10-578
KF-5F 10-595, 10-597, 10-596 F-5F 80-781

Stored/Decoy
RF-4C 70-461, 60-472

Visitors
CN235 20-047 258 TATS
F-5F 80-787 205 FTS


Cheongju 24-10-2013
Due to runway maintenance at Seongnam, this year the Seoul Airshow moved to Cheongju AB, 100 km south of Seoul.
We were hoping to see some aircraft arriving here for the airshow but almost all aircraft were already on the platform. But the F-4’s were still flying ! This was noted between 10 and 12 am.

152 FS
F-4E 60-493, 60-499, 60-497, 60-501, 60-510, 60-500

153 FS
F-4E 80-737, 80-743, 80-734, 80-736

Visitors
F16D 92-044 NB
F-5F 80-787 205 FTS
F-5F 80-785 105 FS
KT-1 04-085 236 FTS
KT-1 00-007 215 FTS
KT-1 01-020 NB
In the afternoon we visited the airbase to see the rehearsal of the Seoul airshow. A log will follow
 
Seongmu 25-10-2013
The Seoul airshow only started at 1:30 pm so in the morning we visited the Air Force Academy at Seongmu, around 8 km south of Cheongju. First we visited the excellent museum but when we saw 5 An-2’s going in take-off and doing some circuits we ran back to the car and drove to the approach side just on time for 1 t&g of an AN-2. We didn’t see them returning till we left at 11am.

AN-2 HL1083 RoK Army

212 FTS
T-103 03-001, 04-002, 04-003, 04-004, 04-005, 05-007, 05-009, 05-011, 05-013, 05-014, 05-017, 05-019, 05-023

Anyone about the unit of the AN-2’s ? Are they based at Seongmu?

Cheers
Ronald

[trent]

Hi Ronald

I noticed from your F-4E notes above you have 6-497 listed. Just to confirm, this would be 60-497.

[Ronaldsnl]

Thank you Trent, post edited.

Did you visit the airshow as well?

[dutchphantom]

Knowing Trent he was there every day, from early in the morning till late in the evening .

[trent]

haha...dutchphantom knows me too well, yes I was there.

By the way, the F-16, F-5's and some of the KT-1's you saw at Cheongju were not strictly visitors as they are aircraft on attachment to the 29th TES which operates out of the base.

The An-2's are based at Seongmu but no-one knows any data about them as officially they don't exist!

[trent]

Here are some notes from Friday's flying:

Paradrop CH-47: 19-084
Solo F-16 display: 93-116
Solo F-15 display: 92-025

Flypast Wave 1: CN235 088; KT1 x6: 005, 029, 013, 033, 017, 025

Flypast Wave 2: C-130 180; KO-1 x6: 001, 020, 006, 004, 014, 015

Flypast Wave 3: T-50 x3 break over airfield: 034 plus 2 (anyone get them?)

Flypast Wave 4: F-16 x5: 940, 370, 583, 594, 589

Flypast Wave 5: TA-50 x5: 063, 064, 061, 075, 078

Flypast Wave 6: F-15 x3 break over airfield: none identified

F-16/KO-1/UH-60 CSAR demonstration: F-16: 101, plus one; KO-1 008, 013; UH-60: 01-619, 01-772

Surion display: prototype 003

F-4E scramble x2: 80-743, 80-737

UH-60s flying after show finished 868, 824 plus 27088 of US Army