chinook at Leuchars 25/9/11

[Mike s]

landed at 1425 callsign lifter 1 any one got a serial for it
cheers
mike

[gamecock]

Dunno, but it just left.

Edit - just been for a Chinese and there's another one blanked up for the night on the old VAS pan.

[Leucharsbox]

Evening all,
This may or may not shed some light on the i/d of the Chinook.A Chinook landed at about 1817 on Sat evening (No callsign but thanks to a post on Scotavnet i/d as ZA681/AB),it was still there when I left work around 2150.Also a C-130J was moving around on the ground about 2030ish,this remains unidentified at the moment.
Two C130's were reported over the Holy Loch area on Sat,C-130K(XV214)and an unidentified C-130J. ZH883 was reported at Prestwick,so may or may not be the candidate for Leuchars.
Reports of a TA exercise might explain the C-130's and Chinook out on a Sat?
"Lifter 1" appears to be reported heading North about 1400 today in the Borders area,so unless ZA681 dep late last night or this morning it could well be a different a/c.
B.Regards
Leucharsbox.

[Leucharsbox]

Sorry,
Chinook should be ZA671/AB,not 681.

B.Regards
Leucharsbox.

[Mike]

Scotavnet report that Chinook ZA711 was picked-up by SBS in the Stirling area today, this should be the other one.

[Mike s]

THE chinook at 1400 flew past my house but nothing on my sbs,so unsure if it was za711 as i should have picked up

mike