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12 January

via Binoculars...

Blue Angel 3 overhead break to recovery on 29.

9 January

Jets sleeping, very quiet at beach with Ospreys still grounded

N368SS DHC-6 Kahuna 68
N238PT DHC-4 Kahuna 38
YJ 245 BUNO 165245 USMC CH-53E // HMH-WEST on fuselage, WARHORSE (HMH-465) on scanner

Binocular report. Yesterday a squadron of 6xEA-18G came in. The time between the first bird and the last was too short to get out to the beach. Too back-lit to get anything off the tails. Interestingly, they used the callsign FLASHBACK, which I've never heard before. That was the callsign of VAQ-34,...

Oh hey, just realized this for 24-1: the Super Bowl is in Las Vegas on Feb 11th. I haven't made up my mind about going to Vegas for 24-1, but if I do, I won't be there anywhere near game day. The airport is gonna be jammed up, hotel rates up, and traffic is going to be crazy.

It could be a nice day at the beach if they use the right runway. Ha ha, it was a good day to work on your tan, and play with dogs. The last 2 days have seen a grand total of 2 F-18s landing during daylight hours, one F-18E Monday and one Growler yesterday. No other fast movers landing in the day. ...

Back in the 60s, when I was a wee lad, JAL Flight 2 (DC-8-62) landed/ditched/crashed more than a mile short of the runway at SFO in 7' of water. We could actually see it from our backyard, and my dad drove us down to the park where the passengers disembarked from their life rafts to see it closer up...

Binocular/naked eye spotting from the front door last week-- some VFA-122 Supers and various VAQ-129 Growlers including one with CAG colors. I figured they were in town for CQ dets and sure enough, Lincoln left after they arrived. I haven't been at the beach because we went to Vegas for a long weeke...

169561 landing at NASNI in 2021...

At LEAST 20. On the way to the World Famous I-Bar* we cruised past the T-Line and pretty much the entire airwing was parked. The beer was waiting so I wasn't looking at numbers, but I did see the Blue Blasters and Fighting Checkmates CAG birds. * Either somebody hasn't seen Top Gun Maverick, or they...

October 5th

US Navy VRM-30 Titans 'Rudy'
Bell Boeing CMV-22B CODsprey
71/BUNO 169456 //Rudy 71 special paint

This is one of the CODspreys that will be forward deployed in Japan.

gachipchase1@gmail.com wrote: ↑27 Sep 2023, 10:29 Also a dark green Caribou….

There have been 2 Caribou flying out of NASNI the past couple years. Per Flightaware, N302PT has been in Arizona most/all of September, so I'd say you saw N238PT.

25 September All flying log Arriving RWY 36 USAF 143ARS/186 ARW Boeing KC-135R Stratotanker HH/1455 59-1455 //EVAC 455 Departing 18 US Navy VFA-147 Argonauts 'Jason' Lockheed Martin F-35C 2xNJ tail code //Jason 11, no call sign for Dash 2 VRM-50 Sun Hawks 'Scorch' Bell Boeing CMV-22B CODsprey 54/BU...

I saw it in the pits Friday morning lined up with the other Sea Furies without knowing about the Tuesday incident. Just by looking at it you'd never know it was inoperable. Later in the day the air show announcer mentioned it and also said there was a working engine in Florida, but not enough time +...

There are any number of planes that have come in this week that I have no pix of: several F-35s (might have been fleet or NAWDC), a P-8, KC-135, and 3 AG tail code Supers* that just came screaming in as I type this, they were so loud my wife even commented, 'sounds like somebody got too close' *pro...

Ha ha, serves me right for doing a bad cut and paste job from airhistory.net. ...another fabulous afternoon at the beach. Yesterday, the Aggressors were separated by type, Supers together, and F-16s together. Today they flew in 4 sections of 1 Super in the lead and an F-16 as wing. All NAWDC and F-1...