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As many of you know, it has been reported that the 301st FW/AFRC is to convert from the F-16C to the F-35A in the mid-'20s. However, a maintainer with that unit told me that they are expecting the first aircraft to arrive in 2020, as evidenced by the new hangar construction on base. Can anyone else ...

Some Hornets noted today were: 164950/WK-00 F/A-18C VMFAAW-224 black tail 164726/WK-03 F/A-18D VMFAAW-224 164897/- F/A-18C (VMFAAW-224) Bengal call sign 164231/DW-04 F/A-18C VMFA-251 First time I've seen a single-seater in 224 marks Seen yesterday 162400/VE-05 F/A-18A++ VMFA-115 163166/VE-12 F/A-18...

Thanks for the log! "Party 11-4" F/A-18E, VFA-87 168910/AJ-300, 169397/NH-403, 168911/NH-401 "CO", 169398/NH-404 Interesting to see VFA-87 is changing to NH-4xx. Now where does that take VFA-147..? VFA-147 will transfer to Vinson's airwing (currently CVW-2 'NE'), so one possibility is that they wil...

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Appear to be transfers as follows:

AH-1Z 168964/QT-661 ex HMLAT-303
AH-1Z 169094/UV-45 ex HMLA-267
AH-1Z 169257/UV-56 ex HMLA-267

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tally wrote:Nothing scheduled at NAS Fort Worth as far as I know. Alliance AP, also used in trainer evacs, has its annual airshow this weekend so don't expect anything there.

Also heavy rains in area through Tuesday.

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Backy went to Barksdale so I imagine the Strike Eagles went there as well. VFC-12 went into NAS Fort Worth although all other operations at NAS Oceana seemed to be normal. AMBUSHxx was up NAS Fort Worth Saturday 15 Sep. LOCKOUT11 (flight of five--VFC-12 temp c/s?) departed Sunday. Looks like VMFA(A...

Backy went to Barksdale so I imagine the Strike Eagles went there as well. VFC-12 went into NAS Fort Worth although all other operations at NAS Oceana seemed to be normal. AMBUSHxx was up NAS Fort Worth Saturday 15 Sep. LOCKOUT11 (flight of five--VFC-12 temp c/s?) departed Sunday. Looks like VMFA(A...

Charleston C-17s (437AW) to Scott with overflow to Mid-America Airport (from news reports).

Norfolk C-2s (VRC-40 'RAWHDxx') appear to have gone to Pensacola (from ADS-B).

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22-05-2018 RNoAF F-35A 5205 / 5206 / 5207 airborn Fort Worth enroute to Orland Initial supporting tanker appears to have been KC-135R 59-1519 174ARS/IA-ANG RCH051, which departed with the 3 x F-35 and later recovered at homebase Sioux City (KSUX). Fighters were using callsign NOW332A. Unusually, th...

Updating this thread, VMFA-251 is returning to CONUS following its six-month UDP rotation to Japan, having been replaced by VMFA(AW)-533. Was being dragged eastbound 22 March 2018 by KC-135R 63-8014 Vinyl21 across US. ('Vinyl' is apparently a relatively new (for me at least) Coronet West tanker call...

Starfighter_F-104G wrote:AM-8, AM-9 and AM-10 planned to land in Norway on Thrursday from Fort Worth

Not sure if related, but KC-135R 58-0057 Blue85 and NOW332 flight departed Fort Worth shortly after 0500Z (12 am LT) Friday 3 Nov heading northeast.

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GOLD81 is about to cross the pond with Mazda31flt 5x EA-18G gold81 (KC-10A 84-0187 according to adsb) is approaching Lajes right now 5x EA18G from VAQ-132 arrived at Lajes with GOLD81 84-0187 Interesting to see VAQ-132 redeploying (?) after having just returned from a PACOM deployment to Misawa. SD

First two (79-23308 and 82-23687) of a planned 159 surplus US Army UH-60A+ arrived in Afghanistan aboard C-17 on 18 September. They are to replace Mi-17. Six are expected to be in use by end of '18. An 'A+' is an 'A' with 'L' engines for hot and high conditions in Afghanistan. Helos were previously ...

Delivery of the final batch of F-16s to Iraq is now set for early '18.

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Stuartking076 wrote:Has Blue 91 landed yet with the Delivery of F-16's, destined for the Iraq Air Force,
Retro 42 & 45 headed to Pease AFB one jet had a issue, the other 3 flew onward with the tanker,

c/s Retro 41, 43, 44

The two jets that diverted to Pease were 1625 and 1633. They departed on the 27th.

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