Yeovilton Air Day Arrivals 2015

[massimo]

AME3536 C295 due out 1300z
G-PEEK due in 1049z

[Malcolm]

10:35L Looks like the (Italian/Maltese/Whatever) AW149 out of Westlands has gone into Yeovilton - Showing as WHE06.

[Malcolm]

11:55L Looks like N531TA the Textron Scorpion thing has just landed.

[ChrisC]

German Navy Lynx 83+02 c/s "GNY4611" landed at Wattisham this morning coming in from the east. Believe its still there at the moment but guess this is the one for Yeovilton.

Cheers
Chris

[Malcolm]

12:40L Are we due a German Sea King? Got 89+71 showing as "CUXMAN" on a Plymouth Mil Squawk
12:40L Spanish Cn295 showing as airborne

[Malcolm]

German Navy Lynx 83+02 c/s "GNY4611" landed at Wattisham this morning coming in from the east. Believe its still there at the moment but guess this is the one for Yeovilton.

Cheers
Chris

15:00L Now showing on a Yeovilton Squawk 7402, so should be close.
15:00L Patuille Aguila Casa 101's OTT Yeovil inbound.

15:10L Patuille Aguilla doing their full display OTT Yeovilton by the looks of it. That's gonna pi55 off the people who've paid for tomorrows preview event if they don't fly then.

[MRTT]

Has anyone got a complete list of what has arrived so far.

[Malcolm]

15:50L [AE540A] KNIFE75 - MV22 11-0058 showing inbound on a Yeovilton Squawk 4321 !
15:50L [3FACC7] CUXMAN German Seaking 89+71 also on a Yeovilton Squawk 4357.

Belay the last pipe. KNIFE 75 appears to be off down to Purbek now - shame.

[somerset]

Dam it I got all excited

[MRTT]

Don't suppose anybody has a complete list of todays arrivals?

[airtyphoon]

Anyone got a complete list of the aircraft that have arrived today.

AW-149 - Coastguard for static - G-MCGS
HH-101 - Italian Air Force Merlin for static - 15-01
Sea Lynx MK88 - German Navy - 83/ --
Sea King - German Navy - Couldn't seen Serial
Patrulla Aguila C-101 Aviojets x 8
CASA CN-295 - Aguila Support - 35-43
Air Land Scorpion - N53ITA

That was until i Left at 16:30.

airtyphoon

[MRTT]

Fantastic, cheers. HH.101 & AW.149 are nice.

German Sea Lynx was '83+02'.

[POL]

Don't suppose anyone got the serials of the CASA 101s? Thanks for the reports so far!

[airtyphoon]

15-01 was at the Merryfield Open Evening last month, too.

Took me by surprise, its not on the Official Participation List but Nice to have it in static.

airtyphoon

[Sea_Harrier_FA2]

Far from a full log but seen around 1700

Casa101 codes 1-8, not sure if 4 was coded it had special marks on the tail. Heat haze got the better of me re serials

Two Lynx and two wildcats (ZZ396/ZZ518) display

Merlins on ramp
ZJ119/C, ZJ121/E, ZJ123/G

285068 type?
WK608/906/Y DHC-1
SX 336/105VL Seafire

Flightline, amongst Sea Kings two Apaches

Static
G-MCGS AW Coastguard
? Merlin HC
?lynx HAS RN
CS....90 Aw green
__+02 lynx MFG
89+71 Sea King MFG
ZR352/15-01 EH101
ZZ516 wildcat

2nd static area had two Sea Harriers, two grobs plus a Merlin coded P

Before I got to Yeovilton At Yeovil was ZZ520 plus N609AG

Heard departing Yeovilton from Yeovil was German Navy 4611 (?), crew said see you Sunday

Bob

[NotPennysBoat]

Anyone know a rough estimate of when the A-10s are coming tomorrow? Early? AM? PM?

[Freeman Lowell]

Bob,
285068 is a AT-6D and carries it's civil i.d. G-KAMY on it's cockpit cover.
Regards,
Freeman

[Malcolm]

Spanish Casa 101's are E.25-28, E.25-08, E.25-31, E.25-87, E.25-13, E.25-06, E.25-38 and E.25-22.

Western end flightlines are...
ZF116/WP, ZA298/Y, ZA299/D plus codes /K, /X and /G all SK4's
Apache x2 marked Gunship1 & Gunship 2
Merlins /C and /G

In the hangar behind where the old tower was are Merlins /E and /M.

Static includes a line of Agusta Westland stuff, including
CSX81890 AW149
G-MCGS AW189 - first flight only on Tuesday apparently.
ZR352/15-01 HH-101
83+02 Sea Lynx Mk88
89+71 Sea King

Rumor is the AW609 is in the flying display on Saturday. Wildcats everywhere, but I suspect they're in the process of hiding most of them.

Oh - and the A-10's are due in tomorrow direct from Lask Poland. Apparantly.

[MRTT]

AW.609 has now been confirmed.

[MRTT]

Pair of AAC AH-64s arrived earlier, as well.