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Thanks for the log. Can you recheck NA-506 please? 169209 maybe? Also a typo, NG-501 is 168254. My bad for trying to extract BUNOs while chimping off the back of the camera. All the numbers get rechecked when the photos go thru post processing. When the current flock of jets go home, I'll dump the ...

DC20/169445 --> https://flic.kr/p/2nACfAo SB50/169447 --> https://flic.kr/p/2o3Db5G 33/169440 might have the DC modex too, I noted last month it wears the same scheme as '20'. Rudy 33 does NOT have a 2 letter code on her tail, I just caught her this afternoon. In fact, it doesn't even show 'VRM-30'...

Dec 1 Fleet Logistics Office Boeing C-40A Clipper BUNO 165835 //another of the dozen of so C-40s bringing spare parts and non flying personnel to Nimitz, at least 3 more came in last night N300LF Partenavia P-68C //Zero Lima Foxtrot on scanner US Navy VRC-30 Providers 'Password' Grumman C-2A Greyho...

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VAQ-139 on the memory card-- weather not nearly as nice as their September visit. Yet Another CODsprey.

30 Nov USS Lincoln went out on the 29th, and promptly catches on fire.* Nimitz arrives in the afternoon to pick up her airwing personnel for her deployment. VRM-50 Sun Hawks 'Scorch' Bell Boeing CMV-22B Osprey SB-50/BUNO 169447 //Scorch 50-- color tail VRM-20 Titans 'Rudy' Bell Boeing CMV-22B Osprey...

Lincoln just left this AM, and sure enough, at least 4 Growlers appeared within a few hours. Winter sun backlighting the jets, so I couldn't even catch the 2 letter tail code. However, I've got all week to catch them over the beach.

Oh yah, 2 Supers from VX-31 came to visit yesterday.

Legacy Hornets at Brown Field, saw them Saturday, then got them in front of the camera Sunday as they left to go back to Miramar. There were at least 4 T-44s from VT-31 on Saturday, but they were gone by the time I showed up on Sunday. https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52453387937_6e72bfff33_b.jpg...

The harsh reality of North Island is that it is quite sleepy without an exercise going on or a CQ det in town. For the past week it's been cargo, Kahuna and the odd depot aircraft and that's about it. https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52453697321_07950958d6_b.jpg Back in 2013 I caught this jet at ...

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52451278349_50d7c6454d_b.jpg Delivered just a few weeks ago, and it already has a MODEX. ...now for some paint on the tail... https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52451527248_a947119b67_b.jpg Depot 11 out of Fleet Readiness Center South West, finishing up a check ...

Many of the static USAF aircraft had the '75th Anniversary' sticker displayed: https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52446631023_5d7a4a4c50_b.jpg https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52446558290_b6c9a68764_b.jpg https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52446118796_792b0c43b1_b.jpg Ruptured Duck IV, named fo...

22 October All planes noted on the ramp, no flying observed US Navy VT-31 Wise Owls Beech T-44C Pegasus 460/BUNO 161060 414/BUNO 160986 BUNO 161072 BUNO 161062 US Marine Corps McDonnell Douglas F-18C/D VMFA-323 Death Rattlers WS 400 WS 402 WS 411 //BUNOs blocked by empenage, etc VMFAT-101 Sharpshoot...

19 Oct Royal Australian Air Force C-17 Saw it come in on Runway 36 (WAY too far for numbers), tracking sites designate it as ASY791 US Navy VRM-50 Sunhawks "Scorch" Bell Boeing CMV-22B Osprey 54/BUNO 169455 //Scorch 54 US Navy Fleet Readiness Center SW Grumman E-2D Advanced Hawkeye "Depot 11" //land...

Static Darkstar 101795 model USAF Ahem, it CLEARLY read NAVY on the starboard engine fairing (port side was blank, go figure). I asked one of the LM employees what was up with the way out of sequence BUNO, and found out that it IS an easter egg, but not what you think-- it's the wedding date for on...

17 October Saw on one of the tracking sites there was an E-2D out from NI doing figure 8s over San Clemente, so I went out to the beach to catch it coming back. US Coast Guard 2701 Alenia HC-27J Spartan based in Sacramento CA US Navy Fleet Readiness Center SW Grumman E-2D Advanced Hawkeye BUNO 16807...

Hey! Thanks for the kind words. The best thing about living 1/3 mile from Dog Beach is that it's REAL easy to get out there, it doesn't have to be an all day thing. I got lucky in that they were flying the photogenic CAG bird late in the day, AND they came back. It was a 3 ship flight and Dash 3 act...