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SWs seem to be flying with the local A-10s, four flew this morning. T-38s look to be flying with Weapons School. Only six on the ramp yesterday: 63-8118, 64-13194, 64-13286, 65-10421, (66-8358)/12FTW, 70-1954 Growlers are: VAQ-131 NL 550/168937, 552/168262, 553/168900, 554/168388 VAQ-135 NL522/? 523...

All the other TAV-8Bs were coded in the '30's, so seems odd that one would be coded '15' (so supports the mispole theory). 164122/WP-35 was seen at Mesa Gateway the same day as some of the other TAV-8B's at El Centro, so a likely candidate? ? Would expect 'WP15' to be an AV-8B. I saw 'WP35' and 'WP...

All the other TAV-8Bs were coded in the '30's, so seems odd that one would be coded '15' (so supports the mispole theory).

AndyMarden wrote: ↑13 Feb 2022, 12:07 I can only guess 163207/15 was a mispole, but that's what it was recorded as.

163207 is a TAV-8B .......

https://www.flickr.com/photos/59502827@N05/33427162408

Thanks Chris. Extra AV-8s noted on 27 Jan 22: 26/ For what it's worth, the missing Blue Angels were: 2/165540 3/ (hangared) 4/165573 (two 4s) 7/165679 7/ (hangared) AV-8B /26 is 165566. This and a few others were seen in Amarillo couple days ago. F/A18 165663 flew as /3 the week before. Is /4 a typ...

There's a photo of TAV-8B WP32/163196 on the Imperial Valley Spotters FB group

AndyMarden wrote: ↑09 Feb 2022, 11:34 Thanks Chris. Extra AV-8s noted on 27 Jan 22:
15/163207
26/
30/
32/ (TAV-8B)
33/ (TAV-8B)

For what it's worth, the missing Blue Angels were:
2/165540
3/ (hangared)
4/165573 (two 4s)
7/165679
7/ (hangared)

Thanks Andy.

Presume some AV-8s were operating from Yuma ?

Very interesting. 4-5 years ago, before any Ospreys came to North Island, the Navy held a public Q & A session to talk about the impact of the (then) forthcoming Osprey operations. I asked if Ospreys would be training at OLF Ream, and the answer then was no, because Ream was fully booked with H-60 ...

Different Imperial. This one is located just above the city of El Centro. 1099 Airport Rd, Imperial, CA 92251, Verenigde Staten Great place to see some of the choppers refuel if you are lucky. That's the one. It does seem to get a lot of military traffic, mostly USN and USMC rotary machines for rot...

tally wrote: ↑08 Feb 2022, 15:31 NH-503 was 168271 in sep of 2021.

Tally.

As well as an ID I meant has anyone else seen it, or was it a mispole/typo?! It wasn't visible on the latter half of last week and I haven't found any photos of it.

31/1/22

MH-60S HSC-3 SA 03/166306, 08/167861
MH-60S HSC-85 300/168539, 301/166313

1/2/22

MV-22B VMM-163 YP 06/168011, 10/167914
UH-1Y HMLA-469 SE 11/169101

UH-72A 2916th Avn 10-72166 Aggressor scheme
UH-72A NE NG 12-72242 approach and overshoot

31/1/22 and 1/2/22 T-45C TW-1 'A' 100/165472 110/165089 112/165091 121/165464 126/165469 128/165471 132/165475 140/165483 141/165484 152/165495 153/165496 155/165498 159/165601 163/165605 165/165607 170/165612 171/165613 175/165617 178/165620 186/165628 195/167103 Edit: corrected a typo, 142 should'...

4/2/22

VX-9 F/A-18E XE111/166957 CAG and XE350/169949 (Block III) landed at 1110, as part of STRIKE 1 formation.

Edit: corrected the modex of the CAG

My take on RF22-1, mostly from my photos but with a few inputs from others: A-10C FT 74 FS 79-0216 A-10C FT 75 FS 78-0598, 78-0614, 78-0621, 78-0639, 79-0207, 80-0175/75FS, 80-0223, 80-0241 spcl, 80-0252, 80-0256 A-10C FT um 79-0157 B-2A WM 393 BS 82-1066/509BW (America), 82-1070 (OH), 88-0329/131BW...

I can't find any reports about it, or photos, after it's accident, other than a suggestion (but no photos) that it was at a museum at Mendig (which closed at the end of 2013) in Germany and would be used in the rebuild of another T-33. It arrived in Europe as N32GB in August 1998, and subsequently b...