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If you'd been there earlier Fabian, IAF704 C-130J 669 arrived around 13Z ....the same aircraft has just left Israel as IAF710, but ahead of him is 663 IAF 708, while behind them is IAF700/667, the first two may be heading for ETAR

A US military aircraft crashed in a training accident in the eastern Mediterranean Sea, according to the US European Command in a statement published at 11pm on 11th November, though there were few other details provided. European Command would not identify what type of aircraft went down or whether...

Bit of activity this morning including what I believe to be the first flight "OTT" Tel Aviv for a while ..... an RQ-4 (it says here) 11-2046 as "Forte10". Operating over/near Cyprus yesterday was Dragon78, U-2R (twas a TR-1 when I saw it in '85) 80-1077 and there is a French helicopter carrier on st...

Many years ago Boeing built a special version of the 747 which featured extra seating where the "washrooms" would normally be found as it was considered "bad form" to be seen using the facilities on domestic Japanese routes. More recently, the FCRS at Cherry Point discovered that the lack of facilit...

The disappointment of the "wrong" JASDF 'plane arriving just now, means I'm going to hit the G & T early today, here is the log: 19th October RCH4596 C-17A 99208 off 11.20 RCH195 C-17A 44133 inbound 12.30 off c15.15 RCH3245 C-17A 90062 ex Jordan RCH3253 C-17A 10191 ex LLNV? CNV546 C-40A 165836 in c1...

I was out most of the day only arriving at the unspecified RP as AF1 was about to go, but here is this evening's log. You'll note that the elusive (& reqd) SAM95 was AWOL - just seen a note that it departed before AF1 as SAM97 ..... I wonder :roll: 18 October MMF65 A330 T-055 dep - earlier but I kno...

Quieter day today (apart from four trips down to the bomb shelter) and nothing new to report but here goes: 17 October RCH4153 C-17A 88195 overnight RCH4612 C-17A 88193 overnight ROF350 C-27J 2702 inbound 11.00 dep CFC4169 A310 15001 in/out (again) CFC4172 A310 15002 arr (again) dep FAG099 B737 inbo...

Others noted on ADSB for the 16th, can you confirm any of these Basman? DAF7262 C-130J-30 B-583 LCLK /LCLK RCH974 C-32B 96143 LERT /? RCH4612 C-17A 08-8193 ETAR 16-okt LLBG 16-okt ETAD RCH4153 C-17A 08-8195 ETAR 16-okt LLBG 16-okt ETAD + For Amman : RCH3230 C-17A 06-6167 ETAR 16-okt OJAM 17-okt ETA...

Lot of old/new friends back today today, but managed one new number, just now, so going to bed happy (and relieved, don't ask!) 16 October FAM 3527 & 3528 B737s arr/dep overnight RCH3263 C-17A 10191 perhaps into LLNV back to ETAR RCH799 C-17A 10189 also LLNV? ASY842 A330 A39-002 in c14.45 dep CTM108...

Patrulla Águila "4" was E.25-38/79-38 when it landed at Getafe on 10th Oct

Many thanks to AK01 for all the above information, but to simplify matters, now I'm back a few miles west of the approach to LLBG, here are the military movements I've seen and/or picked up on FR24/ADSB/WatchAirplanes. I'll try to keep a daily log (but have babysitting duty tomorrow): 15 October (al...

Similar CH-47F story on 6th October, 10277/HT.17-21A plus 19276/TT.17-20A both no rotors, noses covered temp. stored.
ET422 complete on ramp, due to fly imminently
ET424, 425, 426 & 427 active, ET428 & 429 in closed left hand hangar.
Active EC135s were ET187, ET-188 & ET197

A recent arrival noted outside on 6th Oct was EC-345/"U4" the next aircraft for the UAE
Still on the ramp was Singa 762 (actually leased back to Airbus for trials) & an unidentified RAAF in "100 years" marks

As I am currently marooned in the land of cervezas & tapas (oh, and yes,another cerveza por favor) here is the log from last Wednesday. 11-09/CE.16-10, 11-14/CE.16-14 11-53/C.16-53 & 14-65/C.16.65 Typhoons (note in most cases codes only confirmed as I cant access my photos) 14-74/C.16-74 & 14-11/CE....

2nd rehearsal this morning with a few fast jets: Two practice "defiles" today at 10.45 & 11.15 with 6 Eurofighters (5 in the second), 3 x F-18, 1 x F-5, 1 x AV-8/Matador, 1 x PC21 & a C101 in Patrouilla colours plus another as weather bird. Also selection of transports & helicopters. Log to follow (...