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Although Maple Flag will start on 27 May, some exotic participants for this edition arrived today, six Colombian Air Force Super Tucanos and one Herk. A-29B: FAC3101, FAC3110, FAC3121, FAC3124, FAC3125 +1 C-130H: FAC1015 KC-767 FAC1202 joined later as. any help with missing serial will be appreciated!

Crizz,

Angel 7 (1) in the hangar was prob single 163468, noted on March 16, same spot.
Angel 7 (2) was prob a dual, as it was at Key West March 23, buno unknown.

Angel 1 however was photoproof at Key West March 23 as 163498, pilot CDR Tom Frosch, you have it as code 3.

Wim

presumably yes, homebase will be Rionegro for sure.

It flew south via Brownsville (TX), visiting several Central American countries and arrived at Rionegro (Colombia) on March 5th, still wearing its last five 27241.

great report of great place Rob! Thanks for sharing!

http://www.laverdad.com/sucesos/15633-u ... ragua.html
http://mx.noticias.yahoo.com/muere-mili ... 00257.html

sadly, one of the pilots lost his life.

Does anyone have an updated overview of EPAF F-16s present and maybe also their expected departures (and support) later this week?

many thanks!

N144CS left 14jun12, N147CS came 12jun12
N741SK came 15jun12
one of the KCs is 58-0052

not complete yet, as there have been many changes over the last few days; RC135 is 64-14846; P-3AEW was N144CS.

hope this helps, more later.

Thanks guys

@ Prefix: usually not, or just to try the camera settings for that particular moment of the day.

Sure! thanks, corrections made.

Ok, here we go again... 8) the Summit of the Americas was held in Cartagena, Colombia, a short distance from Curacao. Although the US President felt safe to spend the night in Colombia, his plane was parked at Curacao for two nights. And as you all know, the US President never travels alone... Arriv...

Time for a little update. I have not been out and around the airfield a lot lately (and yes, missed a lot of interesting stuff too....) but got a few to share. Weather and spotting places are still great, as the diversity of traffic here. For those interested, I will upload another report next week....

Indeed, there have been many rumours over the years, even former Swiss Hawks were mentioned as a replacement aircraft. For the foreseeable future no project to replace the Tutor is underway; although old, the aircraft are still found reliable and sufficient spare parts are available to keep them fly...

http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/03/15/2 ... uerto.html

3 on board, presumably all killed.
Aircraft was on its way to St Maarten.