Both present Thursday 11am

For LM 47 Take the A977 west from J 6 of the M 90, then right onto the B 918. Look right once you pass the first set of chicken sheds which are on the right. The cabs will be head on. Also some visibility from the A91 to the north of the airfield, but the furthest cab may only be showing rotors and ...

Dutch choppers noted were:

CH-47F D-482, D-602 + D-604
AS.532 S-453 + S-459
AH-64D five of, too much heat haze to read off!

Neil W

Noted between 0830 and 1130 this morning Hawk flightline: ZB131, 134, 135, 136 UAS flightline: WA, XJ, XL, XT, YA UAS hangar: ZB133, 137: ZB139 was briefly outside on the end of the UAS flightline, before going back into the UAS hangar..which was then shut. Towed out of the '100 Sqn hangar' between ...

XW235 Q is the likely suspect for the third one. Seen on ADSB with the other two later in the week, all with Ambush callsigns.

I may be wrong, but from the ADS-B traces, the four listed in the Leeming '14 April' post are likely still operating from there.

Car park has been open

Your Hawks were ZK023/N and ZK025/FA

Neil W

Many thanks Tiger 1,

that seems to be the bird. Ex Bu No 04280 apparently

Neil W

Anybody have the id of the Stearman parked near Hangar 3 on Saturday?

Neil W

arrived 1630 as CTM 2040, still present on the normal ASP at 2000L so night-stopping

165/62-IT

presumably picking up the bits from the Alpha Jet deployment, who RTB earlier today.

Neil W

And Texans ZM331 and 332 were ground running on the Affinity Flightline during the morning.
By 0915 on Friday, of the visitors, only the F16s and the Tucano were still present.
The Strikemaster is ex-Saudi 1120 - the Omani marks are false

Would help. Edit made! Thank you.

Identifies from a mixture of sightings and SBS the following arrived Monday 29th and are operating from/around Leeming. Wildcats ZZ384, ZZ389, ZZ527 Pumas XW231/N, ZJ954/W Chinooks ZA720, ZH902 Merlins ZJ990/AA, ZK001/AF 11 (eleven) helos are reported to have arrived on Monday, so this list is missi...

Trawling SBS logs, potential suspects seem to be ZJ196, 211, 218 and 225.

There were three Apaches parked on the apron in front the northern HAS site, with a fourth landing at 1450. The three parked looked as if they were not going anywhere soon. Maybe they are staying over.

Grateful for any ids!

Neil W

Looks like ZZ393 'VANGRD 63' and ZZ403 'VALINT 62' rtb Yeovilton this morning, plotting on ADSB as far as Gloucester. ZZ408 is active near Malton as Marine 13.

To square the circle on the missing F-s, not listed in the link above. F-10 - redesignation of the Douglas F3D Skynight (aka Drut) F-11 - rediesignation of the Grumman F11F Tiger. Quite a few preserved, typically in Blue Angels scheme. F-12 - two-seat interceptor version of the A-11. Two YF-12s buil...

ZH894 was on ADSB this morning coming up from the south as SHF447. It has shown this afternoon as ULT2 with ZH776 as ULT1, when a two-ship went past my house! Not yet confirmed if 894 is an extra or a swap for 892.

Indeed it should have been! Both Chinooks flew again today. One Wildcat departed 0930, and shortly after when I turned up at the waving bay there were two visible, the one I could read off being ZZ393. A non-FC post said one had gone towards Leeming early morning, so that was likely 393. I checked t...