Herc's at CBG January 2024

[Professor_M]

170037 and 170039 USMC were outside just now, visible from the east end of Airport Way.

Also visible, from this location, was the Bangladeshi, offering a near unobstructed side-on view.

No sign of today's newcomer, nor of South African 409 anywhere.

[Professor_M]

170037 and 170039 USMC were outside just now, visible from the east end of Airport Way.

Also visible, from this location, was the Bangladeshi, offering a near unobstructed side-on view.

No sign of today's newcomer, nor of South African 409 anywhere.

No changes noticed at lunchtime today - Bangladeshi can still be viewed from an unobstructed slightly rearwards side-on angle, or moving further South west along Airport way and onto the footpath, side-on but slightly obstructed by G-BAIG around the nose.

[Trailspotter]

A YouTube video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZR9t3Th5r1Y) says that USMC 165738 was flying in the USA on 21-Dec-2023 together with two other OTIS KC-130Js. No regs are visible in the video, but the ADS-B exchange playback corroborates this at zulu time 2023-12-21-16:38 : (https://globe.adsbexchange.com/?replay= ... 2&zoom=9.1)

[STN RAMP RAT]

A YouTube video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZR9t3Th5r1Y) says that USMC 165738 was flying in the USA on 21-Dec-2023 together with two other OTIS KC-130Js. No regs are visible in the video, but the ADS-B exchange playback corroborates this at zulu time 2023-12-21-16:38 : (https://globe.adsbexchange.com/?replay= ... 2&zoom=9.1)

This was covered earlier in the thread, there is a "fake" 165738 flying in the US using the wrong Hexcode.

[Trailspotter]

A YouTube video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZR9t3Th5r1Y) says that USMC 165738 was flying in the USA on 21-Dec-2023 together with two other OTIS KC-130Js. No regs are visible in the video, but the ADS-B exchange playback corroborates this at zulu time 2023-12-21-16:38 : (https://globe.adsbexchange.com/?replay= ... 2&zoom=9.1)

This was covered earlier in the thread, there is a "fake" 165738 flying in the US using the wrong Hexcode.

Since this was covered here, the "fake" 165738 made a lot of flights this month. This bothers me and I am looking for a visual confirmation of her present location.

[EF-111]

The real 165738 was seen at Cambridge yesterday afternoon, along with 170037 and 170039.

Regards, Steve

[Professor_M]

Dutch G-781 (without Bull special tail), USMC 0039 & 0037 outside currently, visible from SE end of airfield.

[Professor_M]

Dutch G-781 (without Bull special tail), USMC 0039 & 0037 outside currently, visible from SE end of airfield.

Dutch since hangared.

Bangladeshi by tower.

No sign of Indian outside - may be in GRU.

[Trailspotter]

No sign of Indian outside - may be in GRU.

The Indian KC-3805 was towed out of GRE at about 2:40 PM.

[Trailspotter]

31-Jan-2024
Indian AF KC-3805 flew a two-hour FTEST at the end of the day.
Qatari 213 (A7-MAJ) did engine runs in GRE in the afternoon.