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"F-35C 169023/NJ-427 VFA-125" this was read as 169032 end-Jan'24
"F-35C 1?????/NJ-311 VFA-147" read as 170099 end-Jan
"F/A-18F 16????/NA-111 VFA-22" 168488 end-Jan

We logged the following around HAI 156827 Dump not read A-7E with 156833, 156851, 157480, 157481, 159496, 158829. 152181 Dumped P-3A with 151366 & 151389 159935 Dumped A-7H with 160617 160060/60 Dumped T-2E with 160061/61 300 Stored C-130B/H with 303, 743, 744 (read as 741) & 746 all grey 723 Stored...

Thats not what you posted above "GIPS" - please confirm, we had 036 on flightline on the 9th as the only special marks one

741 probably mispole of 744 - my bad logging! One had one set of props, one had three, cant comment on the engines though

Per ADSB the Montenegrin B412 has already left (northbound, well past Tirana) 13.30Z Tuesday

GIPS wrote: ↑13 Apr 2024, 06:49 No sign of the new trainers??

Winds out of limits nearly all week

Re below, you are absolutely correct, 905 it is. The photo doesn't lie!

These two MB339s were involved in Volfa:
N347EM
N348EM

Exercise Volfa24 took place here from 11th-22nd March. The following were noted at various times (thanks to Delta Reflex) Rafale B - EC4 308 / 4 HA, 314 / 4 HP, 326 / 4 HY, 338 / 4 IO, 347 / 4 FN Mirage 2000 D - EC3 636 / 3 JV, 637 / 3 XQ, 657 / 3 JM, 664 / 3 IW, 681 / 3 AG, 686 / 3 JH Mirage 2000-5...

Steadfast Defender 24 / Nordic Response Participating Aircraft Details 04-15th March USMC VMFA-542 "WH" F-35B Evenes, Norway 170064/WH-01,170065/WH-02, 170066/WH-03,170068/WH-05, 170069/WH-06, 170070/WH-07, 170071/WH-08, 170072/WH-09, 170073/WH-10 USMC VMFA-312 (“DR” but with additions) F/A-18C/D, A...

The only Bell in the publicity photos was 147, I doubt that's definitive.
16 confirmed for the Atlantique (unless there was another one)
I think your NH90 could be Swedish (light grey?) numbers 46 & 48 were involved.

58-0042, 58-0045 & Gold 71 64-14839 & Gold 72 63-7992 seem to be the winning noz

...and all 12 arrived safely in Lajes (but 3 of 4 KC-135s went to Santa Maria instead).

Thanks planefixer, that solves the mystery

Many of the based 709F* PC-21s were noted in the last couple of days; FC, FD, FE, FF, FG, FI (didn't fly), FL, FM, FN, FO, FQ & FS, but no (709)G*s, are they even based here? King Air 1030 took off around 08.30 each morning, with a 2nd example sitting outside (nose on to the flying club). Maybe thes...