Obviously C-2A 162172 of VRC-40 „Rawhides“ made an emergency landing (ADSB showing squawk 7700) on 20.5. at 17.13h. It took off at Prestwick and presumably was on a s/w course presumably to Hamburg.
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...
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 ...