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Yesterday arrived 4 unidentified F-16's and a KC-10. They will depart this morning ( 12-12-'07 ).....most likely they will be Israeli delivery or Polish delivery......details will follow as i get them........

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They were Turkish !
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4 Israely delivery F-16's arrived just a hour ago.

No futher details yet, but when info reaches me i will post it.......:wink:

p.s. nice Viper week @Lajes this is.......
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The Israelies depart this morning at 05.00h local lajes time. Support was 2x KC-135 US and a single Israeli B.707......

2 identified,
F-16D 868
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They were Turkish !
They where Jordan delivery's !!,

as far as i know one of them was read of as F-16ADF serial 80-554

details will follow as i get them.....

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Fair enough but their destination was LTAE - Murted !
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IDFAF B-707 (ser. 264?) recovered to LLBG at 17.00 today, Thursday ..
....... from Lajes!
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Fair enough but their destination was LTAE - Murted !
yeah ok, no problem, maby Murted is/was a second stop for hand-over to Jordan. But that is a strange routing......

Latest update, 2 Jordans are still at Lajes because one of them has problems
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From another mailgroup : log 13dec2007
Gents,

My work took me to Terceira, Lajes for a quick night stop.

An early xmas present was waiting for me when I arrived back at the airport Thursday morning to fly back to Lisbon......

868, 869, 871 & 872 F-16I's IDF, clearly on delivery from Fort Worth to Israel.
They were accompanied by KC-135R's 62-3524 106ARS/Alabama ANG & 57-1438 336ARS/ March AFB.

Also present were 2 unmarked F-16A's ex AMARG (80)-0554 & (81)-0768, 50+67 C-160D GAF, 16517 Casa 212 Portuguese A.F and an unidentified USN Gulfstream 550.

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falcon wrote:
Fair enough but their destination was LTAE - Murted !
yeah ok, no problem, maby Murted is/was a second stop for hand-over to Jordan. But that is a strange routing......

Latest update, 2 Jordans are still at Lajes because one of them has problems
I've been told they were on delivery to the Pakistan AF ...
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I've been told they were on delivery to the Pakistan AF ...
They are for Jordan, one serial was 80-0554 a F-16ADF. Pakistan has no ADF's ordened.................
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Hi,
falcon wrote:Yesterday arrived 4 unidentified F-16's and a KC-10. They will depart this morning ( 12-12-'07 ).....most likely they will be Israeli delivery or Polish delivery......details will follow as i get them........
These four are probably 80-0554, 81-0666, 81-0778, and 81-0783. They are no longer on the AMARC inventory list of 17dec07, and coincidentally I saw these four devoid of any markings in the maintenance area of AMARC in mid-October 2007.

Any confirmation welcome of course.

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Hi all! I´m new to the Scramble Messageboard Forums. My real name is Joachim Jacob. I´m a freelance military aviation journalist from Berlin, Germany, born in 1954. Since late 2005, I´m an editor of http://www.f-16.net" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; (specialized in F-16 OEF and OIF deployments). But I´m also interested in other U.S. CENTCOM deployments (especially A-10s, F-15Es and B-1Bs).

falcon does a great job here to document A-10 stopovers at Lajes to and from their deployed locations in the U.S. CENTCOM AOR. And some more related info is added to this topic by other people.

Also, I enjoyed the following website, hot-linked by ehusmann: http://www.azoresairphotos.com" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; for first-hand shots of deployed Warthogs. There are great photos for A-10 aircraft verification!

All of that is very nice! And after checking all current available info, I will comment some of the latest A-10 deployment/redeployment stopovers at Lajes with official USAF info from the "frontlines" in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Questions:
- Are there any Lajes archives for the past years?
- Is there any other people on the Scramble forums who is also interested in OEF/OIF A-10 deployments?

I would be very grateful for any support!
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any news about the unknown F16 that were scheduled for yesterday and depart tomorrow?
thanks GP
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tonno1970 wrote:any news about the unknown F16 that were scheduled for yesterday and depart tomorrow?
thanks GP
Tak a look here. It's 2008 already.

http://www.scramble.nl/forum/viewtopic.php?t=37856" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

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