Haven't posted for a while! I had a very-very busy February after I got back from the UK trip, in fact spent a week at Hyakuri for 302SQ Phantoms that are to be gone within this month. I'll cover that with separate post; in the meantime I'd like to share few interesting catches I made from my local airbase, Seongnam. Korea in March - despite often being sunny - rarely see clear blue skies due to severe dust coming over from China. Thankfully, I was treated with the blue sky yesterday with strong northerly winds blowing in after two weeks of continuous deadly haze.
Beautiful sunshine and spring breeze meant some hours had to be spent for spotting, so I headed straight out and enjoyed what I was given. Here we go:
05-186//Lockheed MC-130H Hercules, on Flickr
Recently, ROKAF converted few of their H variant (allegedly four) into MC-130H standards. They are easily noticeable by the IR pod installed under their chin.
58-352//Raytheon Hawker 800SIG Baekdu, on Flickr
13-714//Dassault (Korean Air) Falcon 2000S Baekdu-II, on Flickr
In 2017, ROKAF acquired two Falcon 2000S based SIGINT platform, and will be acquiring two more in coming years. Here, 13-714 performing a surveillance approach with RC-135 seen in the background. (nice combo innit')
95-181//Lockheed MC-130H Hercules, on Flickr
02050//CASA (IPTN) VCN-235M-220, ROK Government, on Flickr
One of many ROKAF's VIP fleet, both CN-235 based frames (02050 and 02051) are wearing a special livery which I think is fitting very well on them.
13-714//Dassault (Korean Air) Falcon 2000S Baekdu-II, on Flickr
Coming into land after spending some hours in the air.
05055//Sikorsky VH-92 (S-92A), ROK Government, on Flickr
Does it look special? Yes it does, Presidential Chopper working on a visual circuit on a sunny afternoon.
14-726//Dassault (Korean Air) Falcon 2000S Baekdu-II, on Flickr
Had bit of a luck with two Falcons flying, normally you see none up in the air
55-036//Lockheed C-130H-30 Hercules, on Flickr
Here's the loooooooong one. Yet to get a J model unfortunately!
40-092//CASA (IPTN) CN-235M-100, on Flickr
With 20 in the fleet, CN-235 is a key player in ROKAF's air transportation missions.
Well it would be less fun if it ends up here, right? So I brought one more...
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There she is, the Korean Government B744, otherwise known as the Code One!
10001//Boeing 747-4B5, ROK Government, on Flickr
Hope those were all to your liking and thanks for looking out.
Cheers,
Jamie
