It's not, because it's a pointless question to which there is no answer, certainly on this forum anyway. The USAF, DOD and MOD will know but as with all of these deployments, it isn't made public. When they have departed for home, we can then work out how long the deployment was. Regards Mark Hope t...

DRAGN21 is correct. Possibly 68-10329?
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Thanks for the confirmation Mike. I'll look forward to seeing VAQ-144 in action.

Are Growlers up to the present day included in Vol 2?

Hope all is well? Regards

Mark

Correct. Just one launch on the final Friday!
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shuck wrote: ↑

Wed Jan 12, 2022 2:50 pm

VAQ-144 Main Battery led by XO CDR Jason Windom was established at NASWI on 1st October 2021.

raameagle wrote: ↑

Wed Jan 12, 2022 2:44 pm

Lol, maybe it’s -143? I was told -144 this morning but maybe that was a typo?
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shuck wrote: ↑

Wed Jan 12, 2022 2:41 pm

What happened to VAQ-143 being established?

Lol, maybe it’s -143? I was told -144 this morning but maybe that was a typo? Regards Mark What happened to VAQ-143 being established? Update: 169406 is flying with Boeing out of St Louis (KSTL 😂) and the other 6 are believed to be stored at Whidbey. Maybe they will show themselves when VAQ-144 is a...

As of now yes. I can’t see why the US Navy would order more given they don’t use all of the the ones that they currently have but the Senator for Missouri seems to have a lot of clout and even when the USN don’t bid for more Super Hornets in the yearly budget, Congress give them more anyway. Regards...

Update: 169406 is flying with Boeing out of St Louis (KSTL 😂) and the other 6 are believed to be stored at Whidbey. Maybe they will show themselves when VAQ-144 is activated in October 🤷‍♂️ Regards Mark Cheers No. I suspect that they are stored in the barns at WI with the possibility that one or two...

No. I suspect that they are stored in the barns at WI with the possibility that one or two of them are still operating from China Lake.
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shuck wrote: ↑

Mon Jan 10, 2022 2:19 pm

Have any of the final seven Growlers been noted at NASWI.

8th to 10th April is Friday to Sunday! An unlikely set of days for a NATO meet IMHO. I would have thought Tuesday to Thursday myself.
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Joe's site is very good as a starting point but...does he get his info from other sites or official sources? If it's the former then we still require confirmation. Until somebody tells me that they have confirmation from an official source, the 'x' will remain an 'x' in my file. Regards Mark I usual...

EGVP, It will have a fourth digit after the ‘hyphen’ but as I’ve already mentioned, it isn’t known. Your photo clearly shows the data block on the port engine intake. The port side of the front ejection seat also only shows 17-002 etc. It’s a FMS number so the full serial will be 17-x002. Unfortunat...

There we go. I would be interested to know whether Scramble have ‘assumed’ that or whether they have had it confirmed?
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No, the digit after the hyphen hasn’t been confirmed. It is ‘assumed’ to be a 0 but not confirmed. All reference to the serial on the jet ie, tail, port engine intake and front ejector seat only quote 17-015 etc etc.
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Mike wrote: ↑

Mon Nov 29, 2021 6:04 pm

Isn't the full serial 17-0015?

Seen between 1130 and 1445 today (11th November) were:

I-RAIU AW189
ZH584 Lynx
ZZ113 AW101 flew PM
ZZ378 AW159
ZZ513 AW159

A painted Polish AW101 was seen inside that hangar but not read off or countable in my opinion.

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I know ;-)

The 18-505/LN is a mystery so far...

Alf wrote: ↑

Sat Oct 30, 2021 1:44 pm

raameagle wrote: ↑

Sat Oct 30, 2021 1:20 pm

No it isn't, the 5505 for Norway is FY19!

Ahh, OK. Close though. There would not be another 5505 though as the F-35 batches do follow each other (so far) with no duplicates.

No it isn't, the 5505 for Norway is FY19!

Hardly rocket science to work out ;-) There is another picture doing the rounds which shows 18-505/LN but there is no confirmation yet on whether it is photoshopped serial given there is no 18-505 known. Regards Mark Seems the identity, well C/N of one of the first F-35s destined for Lakenheath is n...

19-5473/LN also flew yesterday.
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I’m told that 163259 was one of them.
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