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Fuselage sections came from Subang, so that should limit the potential a little. Might be civilian as well. But so far no ID yet. As far as I know there are no wings with it, so not sure if the prop came from the same plane. And apparantly they have caught the airplane restaurant virus in Malaysia a...

Brazilian KC-390 2858 is currently in LIS, departing for Ostrava thursday morning. Good bet it will be at the show.

And another few extra HPT-32s (in green ), but also one less. X2574 was preserved at Dundigal at the officers institute, but has been removed from there. At the same time one is now on the parade ground, so that is likely the X2574, but I have no evidence of that yet. Two more are at Dundigal as wel...

But dep was really from Alverca. It was here on maintenance from at least May/June (when I first saw it pinging), possibly a few months longer. The K3601 was on maintenance before and left in November. Perhaps next the K3603?

Very exotic one this morning, although technically not a visitor as it approached LIS, then lined up for landing at Alverca:
K3602 ERJ.135BJ Indian AF

Thanks Starman, now you got us all banned to the Scramble Gulag.
Still better than vaporized into nothing I guess, but still...

Come to think of it, what would be the Scramble forum's equivalent to defenestration?
As always, just asking for a friend, of course.

SquAdmin wrote: ↑24 Aug 2023, 10:35

ehusmann wrote: ↑24 Aug 2023, 09:01 Can we now finally say 'damn, I still needed that plane', or is that still inappropriate?
Asking for a friend, of course.

Ask your friend if he already has the Russian AF1, just in case this escalates further...

I don't think he does trains.

Can we now finally say 'damn, I still needed that plane', or is that still inappropriate?
Asking for a friend, of course.

You are mixing things up dude. This Kamov is NOT one of the civil protection Kamovs. Portugal is renting choppers left and right each year to fight the fires, this is just one of them. I honestly do not know what the status of the transfer of the Portuguese Kamovs is, but this is totally unrelated.

Thanks! I know it is not a wildly popular type (perhaps for many not even a known type), but it is simply amazing how many are popping up all the time. Again I have been able to add 6 to the list (in red ). It remains weird that this type specifially is being used to promote the Air Force. A type th...

I have updated the list above, as in the past 2 years the number of found HPT-32 has more than doubled! Updates in bold above. Right now 58 are known by serial (and 1 known, but not located). 18 more are known but without serial. 4 possible. So that makes no less that 77 in total! Still more can pop...

Familiar views for me... At the airport I spotted at an overlook on the west-side of the airport. Nice place, but a bit tricky to find. There are actually three good spots right next to each other, with one indeed being a little tricky if you don't know the roads (it feels like you have to go throug...

From the list of the Finnish Air Force, the Hornets got a new chaff/flare dispenser: https://ilmavoimat.fi/en/-/kaikki-ilmavoimien-hornetit-on-nyt-paivitetty-mlu-2-tasoon A picture is here: https://www.saab.com/newsroom/press-releases/2012/successful-first-flight-for-bol-countermeasures-dispensing-s...

It seems it has started last night with Wagner now going full steam to Moscow. First aviation casualties already on tape. Reportedly two Mi-8MTPR downed near Rostov, one Mi-35 downed near Rostov, later another Mi-8 was seen burning in a field (probably not one of the other two, but that's not confir...

I attended the show on Saturday, never saw an NH.500 arrive. Did see some four different civilian choppers do pleasure or VIP-flights, coming and going all day though. But that's not saying there was no NH.500 of course. Haven't seen a H.500 either, the civilians, for completeness sake, where I-LAM...