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FredL wrote: ↑10 Oct 2022, 18:50 Nice pictures.
Isn't this an EP-3A, behind Hornet 405 ?

Indeed. It arrived from Rota on the 2nd but it went tech, so it remained on the ground for a few days.
It's 160764.

On the 3rd of October, the following 8 Death Rattlers F-18C arrived from Aviano. They departed on the 5th Westbound https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52414881794_1aecb03d04_k.jpg https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52415111898_78fe20885a_k.jpg https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52415110888_342899...

A short update to the Avianca story. On the 7th Sky Lease Cargo B747 arrived with a new engine. It flew from Medellin and was supposed to leave on the same day. It departed last night to Miami. The Avianca is still on the ground.

Hello everyone Although September has been a very quiet month at Lajes, on the 26 and 27 there were 3 emergency landings from airliners crossing the Atlantic. Emergency landing happend now and then and are not that uncommon, as the airfield is well located and suitable, being open 24/7. 26 around no...

Hi Peter! I can do that, of course. But the fact is there aren't that many mil/civilian (apart from the usual schedule airlines [PH-TFP is flying to here as I write]) that visit Lajes these days. So far this month I've taken photos of only 4 movements (yesterday SPAR18 05-0932 C-40C took a short tax...

Hello everyone. August was a bit dull until the second half of the month. At one point I think there were more bizjets then military aircraft from USAF/Navy and other Air Forces. Then there were several P-8's based here. A total of 9 were seen. There were also several USAF C-130 flying eastbound, mo...

Hello everyone. July was not a busy month at Lajes but we did get good summer weather. A bit of explanation on the photos that you will see bellow. - D-EFZB has been on "tour", during most of July, through Portugal. Very rare to have a civilian bizprop around here. - TABOR11 (4 Duluth marked F-16) a...

I need to give one step back and recap all the info on the F-18 that passed on the 2nd and 3rd. I've double checked with a friend and this is the list: 2JUN 164884/WK05 F/A-18D 165399/ - 200 F/A-18C 164659/DR211 F/A-18D 164897/DR201 F/A-18C 164892/DR207 F/A-18C 3JUN 164653/ VE-25 F/A-18D 164627/ - 3...

So 164897 it is! Thanks for the update! Maybe the database was not updated at the start of the month and I dound the old DR-201.
But all is good, thank you.

Ah, never mind, I see that you have already answered that question in your post about may. Great, thanks! Do you happen to have the codes for 164884-164902-165399? I do! 164884 - WK-05; "VMFA(AW)-224" "Bengals" 165399 - No titles, just "200" 164902 is a tricky one and I admit I could have made a mi...

Hi Rui, It seems you mentioned 164892 2 times on both waves of 2 and 3 June. Could there be a slight mistake ? Best Regards C You're right! I've checked the photos that I took on the 2nd and found it. So it's confirmed that 164892 (DR-207) landed on the 2nd. . PS: only recently I found out that I h...

Hi everyone. Here's a small selection of photos of last month traffic. The white CRJ (ex South African Express) was a ferry flight back to North America, TUI dreamliner was a medical emergency from Gatwick to St. Lucia and the EuroAtlantic B767 is operating for Azores Airlines on the Oakland service...

Nice ineed! Did you by any chance get the two groups of VMFA-312 Hornets that arrived at Lajes on June 2nd and 3rd? Hi Patrick. Only the ones that landed on the 2nd I will post a photo of one of them on the June 2022 topic. 2JUN 16-46018 KC-46A; 164659 F/A-18D; 164884 F/A-18D; 164892 F/A-18C; 16490...

Hi everyone. It has been years since the last time I made a post here on Scramble. At the moment I'm calling Lajes my "home airport" and I'll be publishing here, monthly, photos to illustrate some of the aircraft that transit at Lajes. Feel free to make questions. https://live.staticflickr.com/65535...

Very nice and exotic visitor on the 25th April:

CN-AMF Moroccon Air Force CN-235M

Best regards