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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...

Anybody who knows why website „aircraft slides“ is down?

Yes. The AFRC A-10 will not take part in Air Defender.

The 6 KC-135 obviously will operating from Ramstein and Geilenkirchen.

Some further information: The lead unit for the ten different (not five as earlier stated) C-130’s operating from Wunstorf will be 182nd AW, Illinois ANG. It’s Airlift Squadron is 169st AS. As it is operating the C-130H3 it will be obviously a mixed fleet of Hercules marks. Most if not all C-17 supp...

First infos say Greece will send four 347.Mira F-16C from Nea Anchialos to Lechfeld as Jagel and Hohn will already host 30 or more fighters each. There will also be events like a Fly-In-Party and a second party with up to 3.000 people each. Several USAF VIP aircrafts are awaited during the exercise ...

A400M CT-05 of 15.Wing, 20.Smd. arrived on 2.5. for a short stop.

44+11 with false identity „41+11“ is in Marine Norm 83 camo, 43+13 in grey.

In the „Lehrwerkstatt“ Tornado IDS 44+11 and 43+13 were in service.

Planned for an arrival on 28.04. from Al Azraq were the following LTG 62 A400M: 54+39, 54+24, 54+18, 54+20, and 54+12 some hours later plus A.321-251Nx 15+11 of FBS BMVg. 54+12, 54+20 and 54+24 were the three A400M which directly flew several times from/to Wadi Sayyidna since last week. Arriving jus...

Last flown in May 2022 A400M 54+06 arrived back from heavy maintenance at Manching on 27.04. It also got one new engine. The Sudan evacuation force will arrive back shortly in numbers. Special painted 54+21 made several flights this week, e.g. to Sevilla, Nörvenich, Andoya and Ämari and did also loc...