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1st November 2024
ZZ332 A330 31st October / 09:40 TARTN48D RAF
ZZ343 A330 31st October / 12:08 RRR2403 RAF
1225 C17 10:48 / 2nd November UAF1226 UAE Air Force.

2nd November 2024
1225 C17 1st November / 12:24 UAF1226 UAE Air Force.
DU-142 AW139 11th October / 12:24 Dubai Air Wing departed on C17 1225.
DU-141 AW139 17th October / 12:24 Dubai Air Wing departed on C17 1225.

6th November 2024
MAO C17 13:50 / 7th November LHOB243 Qatar Air Force.

7th November 2024
MAO C17 6th November / 13:37 LHOB243 Qatar Air Force.

9th November 2024
0481 C295 12:23/ 11th November CEF6110 Czech Air Force.
1225 C17 12:26 / 10th November UAF1223 UAE Air Force.

10th November 2024
MAP C17 07:03 / 09:41 C17 LHOB244 Qatar Air Force.
MAE C17 07:16 / 13th November LHOB247 Qatar Air Force.
1225 C17 8th November / 11:38 UAF1223 UAE Air Force.

11th November 2024
0481 C295 9th November/ 15:47 CEF6110 Czech Air Force.

13th November 2024
MAE C17 10th November / 09:18 LHOB247 Qatar Air Force.

20th November 2024
A7309 B738 05:04 / 22nd November KCN04 Indonesian Air Force

22nd November 2024
A7309 B738 20th November / 21:17 KCN04 Indonesian Air Force

24th November 2024
14+05 GLEX 15:39 / 16:35 GAF670 German AF.

Hearing that there is Qatar C-17 due in Thursday just after lunch. Probably only staying a couple of hours

Pesmog wrote: ↑

Wed Nov 06, 2024 4:07 pm

Hearing that there is Qatar C-17 due in Thursday just after lunch. Probably only staying a couple of hours

MAO landed 13:53 yesterday(Wednesday 6/11) from Al Udeid. No further movement on Adsb.

Yep, my source got its arrival day muddled. I believe the C-17 is still leaving today though.

can anyone confirm if both Dubai AW AW139's departed from Stansted on the C17 this week. DU-142 has flown in Dubai so that one has certainly left but DU-141 has not so may be still at Stansted.

EDIT: DU-141 was showing on ADSB in Dubai on the 8th November so has left Stansted.

There are currently two Turkmenistan Government S-92As at Stansted undergoing Maintenance in the old Harrods Aviation hangar attached to the terminal building that may be worth keeping track of in this thread:

EZ-S721 arrived on the 2nd October
EZ-S720 arrived on the 2nd November

SamP wrote: ↑

Thu Nov 07, 2024 8:06 pm

There are currently two Turkmenistan Government S-92As at Stansted undergoing Maintenance in the old Harrods Aviation hangar attached to the terminal building that may be worth keeping track of in this thread:

EZ-S721 arrived on the 2nd October
EZ-S720 arrived on the 2nd November

Sam, thanks for the heads up, whilst accepting they are quite rare beasts I took the decision to only put aircraft with military registrations into this section. When I started a few years back it was clear that I would be overwhelmed by tracking civilian registered governmental aircraft, specifically the Middle Eastern royal flights, feel free to report them in the thread though.

I understand this can be emotive subject, but as the vast majority of military spotters collect government aircraft....

I can see Ramp Rats point, there is a common pool of Government aircraft that are frequently in and out of Stansted that can be hard to keep daily track of for little point when most people will have already seen them.

Perhaps we could make it ‘uncommon government and military’ but it’s splitting hairs a bit. The Turkmenistan S-92s whilst uncommon are very hard to see as they spend almost all their time at Stansted buried in a hangar you can’t see into. I still need both of them and can’t see myself catching them! I thought they were worth mentioning as I can’t remember the last time two were in together.

I understand that too, but there are a vast pool of military aircraft that go in and out of Mildenhall that are recorded, for which as you say "for little point when most people will have already seen them".

To be clear, I have no issue with them being reported in the thread, its clearly within the rules. my reply was about my own personal capacity to add them to the thread. I am not always aware that they are in as I dont have access to any inside sources either.

UAE C-17 is due in today midday

and a rarer visitor

Czech Airforce C295 should arrive mid-morning today.

(Update) its running a bit late, now over the low countries CEF6110

noted landing after each other around lunchtime today were
0481 CASA235W Czech A/F
1225 C17 UAEAF

I believe that the UAE C-17 that arrived today will be leaving at 9am Sunday.

Update: I am not sure how accurate this is, but there should be two Qatar C-17's arriving from JFK after 7am Sunday as well. They are apparently on a quick turn around so won't be around long. So potentially plenty of C-17 action tomorrow morning.

Not heard anything about the C-295 departure.

FR24 has LHOB244 C17. Arriving from JFK @ 07.43 Sunday morning
No reg showing

MAP went out there

Both landed. MAP departed later, but I understand that MAE cancelled its departure.

No news on C-295

The C-295 is apparently listed for departure tomorrow 17:00. It will be pretty dark then

Czech AF 6110 C-295W 0481 departed at 15.47.

I thought the Indonesian was A-7309?