log;- Lossiemouth 23rd August

[Mark Lawley]

evening all, spent from 10;40am until 15;15ish at the local and
noted these ;-

visitors

46(+)23 Tornado German Air Force ' gone tech '
16 ATL-2 French Navy
168764 P-8A US Navy
168439 P-8A US Navy / departed on sortie
168858 P-8A US Navy / arrived after sortie

Based Typhoons

with 1 (F) Sqn today were ;-

ZJ807 / 807 ' performance take off PM '
ZK337 / 337 ' performance take off PM '
ZK312 / 312
ZK319 / 319

with II (AC) Sqn today were ;-

ZK372 / 372
ZJ950 / 950
ZK364 / 364

with 6 Sqn today were ;-

ZK302 / 302
ZK369 / 369
ZK362 /362

OH WELL !!!! ……………………………………….. Mark

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[np1991]

C12 73-1217 arrived 1625L. Looked good for a night stop

[Squire of the Gate]

A couple of visitors noted at 20:45hrs.....
166694 C40 USN
73-1217 C12C US (Presume still Embassy flight).

Still in.....
4623 Tornado GAF
16 Atlantique FN
168764 and from memory 168858 P8A USN

[Mark Lawley]

Niall and Mr Blackpool ?

cheers for that, thankfully don't need 73-1217 seen it in Manila 03/11/2009
when serving with DIA, US - Embassy Manila.

Any ideas as to which Embassy it's assigned to now ?

cheers ........................…. Mark

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[Mark Lawley]

guys

just answered my question , US Embassy Budapest.


Mark

[SamP]

Does anyone know what happened to 168849? Seems to have disappeared off somewhere else?

[Mark Lawley]

Sam

Rumour has it that it's gone to have some unit marks applied to the fuselage and tail

Mark

[vulcanxl425]

The C-12 did overnight here. Left around 0815l using same call sign "Duna 95".
Ahead of it the C-40 also heading south " Convoy 6405".
See post by dragonchaser that no.16 Atl2 headed for home earlier today "French Navy 5620"

[Mark Lawley]

C-12 Just arriving Northolt

[NAW]

With all the maritime aircraft now at Lossiemouth , can somebody explain what kind of exercise is going on here?

[vulcanxl425]

No exercise taking place here. This is reality with US Navy P-8s providing a presence here for the foreseeable future ,even after the arrival of the first RAF examples.

[np1991]

Does anyone know what happened to 168849? Seems to have disappeared off somewhere else?

168849 noted on the deck today Sam, was up on a sortie yesterday as it departed about 0900ish

[Mark Lawley]

oh fudge so they never managed to paint it then

[Approach23]

With all the maritime aircraft now at Lossiemouth , can somebody explain what kind of exercise is going on here?

US are planning a permanent base at Lossie with something like a $80M investment with some of it helping to resurface the runway and build a hangar(s) for maintenance for based P8s. Pity the didn't do it in the past for Orions !

RCC/approach23