Yeovil (Westlands) Sightings Autumn/Winter 2018/19

[phila]

Noted today just after lunch ;
ZZ549
ZZ550 (departed)
ZZ105
ZZ106 (note - no longer has primer panel)

[Seaking93]

ZZ550(Westland 05) has for the second day running done a p/d at Yeovilton

[Judwin71]

ZZ106 first flight today

[Malcolm]

ZZ106 first flight today

23rd Jan 2019
[43C7E1] (ZZ106?) seems to be airborne - Showing full ADSB and just done an approach to Exeter (12:05)

[Typeflyer]

HEX 43C7E1 up at the moment as WHE02 - anyone have an ID for this?
TIA

[Kevin Brewer]

Now showing as ZZ106 old chap.

[Malcolm]

Now showing as ZZ106 old chap.

That just means someone has put ZZ106 in their own personal database of ADSB codes, and then "shared" the ADSB info with a network. If I put ZZ107 in my database, then that's what will show on your screen. Whilst I've little doubt [43C7E1] is indeed ZZ106, until someone actually reads it off in flight there is still a small chance it isn't.

[Kevin Brewer]

Thanks Malcolm. I learn something new every day on this Forum!

[razzer56]

Seen between 12 noon and 13 30 today
Aw 159 ZZ550 & ZZ549 for Phillipines Navy - both flying

Towed from flight shed around 13.15
AW 101 ZZ 106 for Norway, followed by
Wildcat HMA2 ZZ 513 some panels missing and sporting an Orange probe by nose

razzer56

[eagle driver]

ZZ513 So that's where it is ,my last Wildcat , This has never entered service with RN

[Seaking93]

ZZ513 So that's where it is ,my last Wildcat , This has never entered service with RN

Actually it has, I recorded it arriving at VL on 13/10/15 to 825NAS, it also then spent time in 12 hangar with WZM, last time I saw it at VL was 9/11/16, I have a number of photographs of it with 825NAS and also WZM

HTH

BobT

[eagle driver]

Thanks Bob for the update, just curious what is WZM
I know it was at Yeovilton in the back of one of the hangars but I never had a chance to see it .

[Seaking93]

WZM is Wildcat Zonal Maintenance, carried out in 12 Hangar

[Freeman Lowell]

Thursday 31st January 2019 1115L
Noted at a chilly Judwin whilst en route to Eli's:

ZZ549 Wildcat 220. Ramp
ZZ550 Wildcat 220. Flew
(ZJ128)/M Merlin HC.4. Compass base

Freeman

[Geoff Dreft]

Flying along the south coast at 10.45 today, overhead Hastings and heading east, was what looked like a Norwegian AW101 - according to my plane plotter app it was calling WHE6. Presumably the example referred to as ZZ106 but can anyone confirm?

[bizfreeq]

Hex code it was showing has been tied to ZZ106 yes

[Malcolm]

There was a Norwegian AW101 on the ramp at 08:45 tail on, but I couldn't get an angle to read it off. It still had the Norwegian serial covered, and the UK serial applied though. That, and the fact it appears to have departed on a Westland callsign makes me think it'll be back, and isn't on delivery.

[rh226]

According to Scramble (obtained from MSF), ZZ106 was going to Poland for a demonstration visit to the Polish Armed Forces.

It called in at Ostend en route.

[Seaking93]

There was a Norwegian AW101 on the ramp at 08:45 tail on, but I couldn't get an angle to read it off. It still had the Norwegian serial covered, and the UK serial applied though. That, and the fact it appears to have departed on a Westland callsign makes me think it'll be back, and isn't on delivery.

Malcolm
I am told the one you saw was ZZ105, 106 came out of the flight shed at 0900

[Seacat192]

Thursday 31st January 2019 1115L
Noted at a chilly Judwin whilst en route to Eli's:

ZZ549 Wildcat 220. Ramp
ZZ550 Wildcat 220. Flew
(ZJ128)/M Merlin HC.4. Compass base

Freeman

How was Eli's today? Not been in there for 4 or 5 years