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An EF-18M crashed today at Zaragoza.

https://aviation-safety.net/wikibase/312952

https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/17 ... -spain/amp

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The three AMI Tornado ECR departed in the morning of 16.05. to Ghedi. Two of them (6-20 and 6-77) flew a 2,5 hours mission to the Baltic on 15.05.

There was already no „Hohn 2023“.

Very sad news from Hohn. A heavy crash of a GFD Learjet around 12.47h on 15.05. unfortunately tragically killed the two pilots. Obviously it was D-CGFQ which crashed near the western circle taxiway during an overshoot. https://www.shz.de/lokales/rendsburg/artikel/flugzeugunglueck-in-hohn-ermittler-g...

Very sad news from Hohn. A heavy crash of a GFD Learjet around 12.47h on 15.05. unfortunately tragically killed the two pilots.

Optional Behavior Rules Air Defender 2023 In thoughtfulness of the exercise hosts, the local inhabitants and the local spotter community please pay attention of the following behavior rules I have taken together: Jagel: Do not enter the fields in the runway 05 approach! The farmer can and do send yo...

All were lucky who had already taken pictures of special colored LTG 62 A400M 54+21 as it entered a maintenance hangar to ad some more flags (at least Greece and Japan) on the coat of arms on both side of the fuselage as new „Air Defender“ participants. The whole coat of arm will change a little bit...

Flying on 12.5. were TLwG 51 Tornado IDS 44+21 and 44+69 plus ECR 46+45, 46+54 and 46+57. Departing for Keflavik and perhaps longer were 45+59 and 45+70 both with the full load of four fuel tanks. Arriving from 10.30-11.00h were 6.Stormo, 155.Gruppo Tornado ECR MM7020/6-77, MM7021/6-20 and MM7051/6-...

With Nörvenich the fourth fighterbase of Luftwaffe will close at the same time due to WIP. The departure of TLwG 31 will be to Rovaniemi on May 16th. Return of the jets will be on June 7th (TLwG 33 from Spangdahlem) and 10th (TLwG 31). https://www.ksta.de/region/rhein-erft/kerpen/kerpen-drei-wochen-...

In June one of MFG 5’s last Sea King Mk.41 will be painted in special colours to be presented on the Spotter Day on August 27th. A second Sea King will be painted in early-2024 for a planned flyout of the type at Nordholz in April/May 2024. At least one of them will get a full retro colourscheme as ...

Corrected (sorry for doing it wrong at first):

Six A-10 should be transferred from Lechfeld to Jagel after the first week of the exercise, so Jagel can have 12 and Lechfeld 6.

Announced for Jagel are 14 F-16C, so South Dakota ANG’s 175st FS as lead unit will presumably be backed up by another. Unfortunately 120st FS of Colorado ANG is still not confirmed. The amount of A-10C at Jagel could change from six in the first week to twelve in the second. The adding number will c...

Unfortunately the JASDF C-2 will obviously not operate from Germany at all as it will also take part
at the Aero Salon 23 at Le Bourget and will fly from there.

USS Gerald R. Ford, CVN-78, with CVW-8 on board left the USA for the Atlantic and later European Seas. It will presumably also come to the Baltic Sea. Six (not four) Super Hornet should take part in Air Defender 2023 (plus two Growler) and so the F/A-18F should come from VFA-31, 37, 87 or 213 (or ev...