Based Unit and Aircraft ------------------- 99ERS - 99th Expeditionary Reconnaissance Squadron (Based here since September 2019) Current 'Articles' on base: (as of 20-6-2024) U-2S 80-1067 - Arrived January 14th 2025 U-2S 80-1096 - Arrived October 17th 2024 ------------------- 80-1067 has since been...

Thought I would start a Ramstein Flag Movements List similar tot he BTF ones Monday 24th March 6166 Lockheed C-130B Hercules Romanian Air Force arr @ (1300) as ROF144 6166 Lockheed C-130B Hercules Romanian Air Force dep @ 1435 as ROF144 to Buchareast Tuesday 25th March 18-0093 A400M Atlas Turkish A...

mudcity wrote: ↑

Tue Feb 18, 2025 9:50 am

TURK AF GLF 4. 91-003 due 1045

Thank you for the heads up, made it in the nick of time!

12-1063 to Royal Saudi AF - 5/18(via Lakenheath) was marked 2913 at the World Defence Show in early 2022. Thank you very much, Tony, I've just updated it. Who knows, maybe one day we'll confirm every single one, and then maybe try and work out the Qataris as well :lol: Then there's the challenge of...

A couple of C-130 movements today according to Flightradar 24.

Canadian CC-130J 130601 CANFORCE2545
ETA: 11am
ETD: 2:15pm

Omani C-130J 506 MAJAN281
ETD: 2pm

Flightradar 24 shows the below visitors planned tomorrow:

RAF Envoy IV G-ZABH RRR1306 - ETD 11:00

Romanian Air Force C-27 Spartan 2702 ROF121 - ETA 12:15

Royal Air Force of Oman C-130J 506 MJN281 - ETA 13:10

TonyO wrote: ↑

Wed Dec 04, 2024 1:13 pm

12-1063 to Royal Saudi AF - 5/18(via Lakenheath) was marked 2913 at the World Defence Show in early 2022.

Thank you very much, Tony, I've just updated it. Who knows, maybe one day we'll confirm every single one, and then maybe try and work out the Qataris as well

IMarsh wrote: ↑

Wed Nov 13, 2024 6:51 pm

Any I.D's for the Canadian C-130?

No Canadian C-130 landed at Brize today, at least not whilst I was there!

It has a crest on the front section on the right side (I couldn't read it last night but I think it's an Eighth Air Force crest), it also had Lucky Lady IV nose art and 8AF/Mighty Eighth on the tail.

I'm hoping there is a chance we might get tail number 029 with the special test and evaluation scheme from Barksdale. 61-0028 (not 029) belongs to the 49th TES and is "OT" coded rather than "LA" or "BD", so the chances of it deploying are effectively zero. Which is a HUGE shame because it looks abs...

Updated to include 12-1076 which appeared at RIAT this year with Saudi serial 641.

RCAF CC-330 Husky 330003 CANFORCE3443 due in from Trenton at 19:50 tonight.

shuttleman1 wrote: ↑

Thu Aug 22, 2024 10:01 am

I believe it diverted back to Sigonella after a lot of circuits over Estonia

It's currently still airborne over Estonia. All being well it should be into Fairford between 21:30 and 00:30 tonight straight off the back of its mission.

STN RAMP RAT wrote: ↑

Tue Aug 20, 2024 7:01 pm

is this the start of a baseing or just testing for the future RQ180 ?

It looks as if it's for testing purposes. The new hangars don't look ready quite yet!

https://airspacechange.caa.co.uk/docume ... nload/6934

80-1076 arrived July 26th as DRAGON86 replacing 80-1096 which departed the same day as DRAGON21

CHESTER_DRAWERS wrote: ↑

Fri Jul 12, 2024 3:19 pm

Any idea what the price was - would like to make sure I have the right change !

tvmi

I recall it being around £20 per person, but please don't quote me on that!

big john wrote: ↑

Fri Jun 21, 2024 3:52 pm

Thanks Ollie for the corrections and the TU2s's I've been looking for those for ages.

I should add that TU-2S 80-1065 has been retired, along with U-2S 80-1066 & 80-1085. Both of these have been deployed to Fairford in the past few years.

Jigsaw I extra for you. 80-1089 which I logged on the 23-07-2014.which is now a TU2S and I believe the 1 of the other current TU2S, both in before they were converted. The other was probably pre 2011 when my log books were destroyed in a flood. It may be 80-1068? As far as I am aware, 80-1089 is a ...

Hi everyone I know that U2 movements are not discussed till aircraft return can anyone confirm that 070/096 are current based aircraft i understand that 337/077 have arrived are these swapping with current aircraft thankyou for any information if allowed Yes, the current based aircraft are 80-1070 ...

Not sure the last time we had more than four (back in B-52G days?) but you never know. There was 6 deployed in August/September 2020 and March/April 2019. I doubt we'll see that many again! In fact I have a photo of five at Fairford in 2020 so should have recalled that. We did have B-1s and B-2s co...