Bastille Day Flyover

[FFDspotter]

For anyone attending Paris on the 14th July for the Bastille flyover, the details have just been released:

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/15hmBT ... tid=wwXIfr

[slogen51]

Nice one

I assume the route is back pass Les Invalides after the Olympics

[falcx]

I was happy with the flightpath they used last year, so wouldn't mind them sticking to it this year .

Kind Regards.

[JohnK]

newbie question, sorry, would the flypast be viewable from Le Bourget? (incl helicopters?) (possibly depends on the route i guess, but thought i'd ask) - thoughts please, thanks in advance

[Freeman Lowell]

Hi John,
No. You would be about 8 miles from the centre-line (Av. des Champs Elysees) of the flypast and the aircraft would be at about 1000ft.
A neat, concise guide to viewing said flypast is available on https://wagsite.co.uk/ under 'recent reports'.
(A 'day return' flight is available with easyJet out of Luton to Charles de Gaulle.)
Freeman

[JohnK]

Thanks Freeman, much appreciated

[slogen51]

Booked!

I am going to Les Invalides - bit into the sun but you can usually identify everything although my go to lens for this sort of thing is broken again and being fixed again by nikon - not worried as generally there are quite a few spotters in that location to crib off

[FFDspotter]

Looks like the Flypast participants are making their way to the Paris area, presumably for a practice?

[Blackboxromeo]

Some of the flypast participants were identified on ADSB : (0930ish BST 14.7)
132 FA50 FN
FRBAN A400 with FRBAQ FAF
61PR C-130 FAF
147 TBM7
21 Atlantic FN
FRAFJ F900
FZBMM Dash8-400
1018 King Air
FUJCI A330 FAF
525 KC135FR FAF
FRAVM AS355
702-CD E3F
FA68 F16A BAF
64-HC CN235
E107 AlphaJet Pat de France
T23-01 A400 SpAF
ZJ950 Typhoon FGR4 RAF
FMDAP SA330
1 E2F FN
32 FA10 FN
01 PC21 With 10 & 16
Lascar71 Type?

Hope that's of use.

Rich Hodgkinson

[hanzl]

LASCAR71 Rafales M 12F I'd say ...
Hans

[slogen51]

Working backwards ( coz I am now from Norfolk) through my camera

Starting with the Choppers in roughly the order they came through mostly just codes

3 Fennec : UX WE UY
1 caracal: 3125/SN
I super Puma 1383/AN

Navy
1 NH-90 3 ** note number 8 landed at Invalides
1 NH-90 Italian navy: mm 81581?/3-05 serial not that clear for me
1 Dauphin ? 318 French Marine

Training
3 H120 I think: F-HBKO, HNKV, HBKH
3 Fennec : AYF AYH AYQ

Army attack
3 Gazelle : GEI GET GEX
4 Tigre : BKC BHX BHM BJL

Army AlaT
1 Puma DAP
2 Cougar : 2443/ CGW, CGO
4 NH-90 : EAJ EAI EBZ EBW

Gendamarie
2 EC-135 : JDG JDC
1 EC-145 : JBT

Sec Civil
1 H-145 : FZBPS

Customs / Duanes
1 EC-135 : FZBGI

Some of the above us some additional landed as usual in front of invalides 10 in total

1383/AN Puma
3125/SN Caracal
F-WJXA /1062 H160
5396/VD Fennec
318 Dauphin
8 NH-90 French Marine
GEI Gazelle
EBZ NH-90
2443/CGW Cougar
2031/BHX Tigre




Fixed wing next afternoon a civvie catch up

[Off Airways]

From Mike's post I can add from the camera in a darkened hotel room:

204/36-CD E-3
J-5236 F18 Swiss AF
CE16-68/14-68 F18 Span AF
043 A.330
FRBAJ A.400
01/709-FC Pc21
07/709-FI Pc21
32 Falcon MER10
132 Falcon 50
21 Atlantque2
0033/FRBAI A.400
0073/FRBAN A.400
T23.01/31-21 A.400
5890/61-PR KC-130J
195/64-HC C.235
198/64+HF C.235
107/YU Xingu
146/XR TBM700
147/XS TBM700
1018/FRACG B.350

HTH, no fighters until I get in a really dark room on a PC

Jphn

[slogen51]

Fixed wing straight from the camera ( i don't have my book with me, for travelling light reasons, so I can't check the serials to codes )

Messed up wave 1 - 10 fast jets in close formation behind an awacs and the remains of the PDF smoke didn't help so gap fillers and corrections welcome!)

204 awacs
FA-(68) ? F-16 BAF
MM-???? / (51-?9) Typhoon could be coded 51-09 or 51-19?
2 Rafale C: ???? and ????
1 Rafale B looks like 30-VM ?

31+49 Typhoon GAF
J-5236 F/A-18
Spanish Typhoon 14-66 ( will recheck my photos as different to above)
ZJ950 FGR4
M2000C : 2-ED

1 KC-135 : 31-CN
4 Rafale B : 4-IO, 4-FT , 4-IH, 4-IA

1 A330MRTT : 043/,F-UJCI
2 M2000D : 658/3-JN , 634/3-JE
1 Rafale C (159)/5-VL
1 Rafale B : 4-FM

1 A400M: 037 F-RBAJ
1 M2000D : 646/30-MQ
2 Rafale B : (359)/30-FZ , (369)/30-SR

2 PC-21 : 07/709FI , 01/709-FC
2 Alphajet: 8- RQ, 8-UD ( 8-RQ could be 8- RO,?)
2 M2000B : 527/3-OR , 525/3-AM
2 Rafale B : 4-HY , 4-EA not very clear could be 4-FA

1 Hawkeye : ?? Not required
1 Falcon 10 : 32
5 Rafale M : 35 17 41 29 45

1 Atlantic : fluffed!
1 Falcon 50 : 132

4 A400M : 0102 F-RBAQ, F-RBAI, 0073 F-RBAN , T.23-01/31-21 10074

1 F900 : ??? VIP
1 C-130J : 61-PR
2 CN235 : 64-HF , 64-HC

1 Xingu: 107/YV
2 TBM700 : 147/XS , 146/XR
2 SR22 : F-GKCT , F-HKCC

1 MQ-9 : 532 / 33-EN??
1 Beech 350 : 1018/F-RACG

1 Dash 8 : F-ZBMM

as I say Serials are from the camera and not double checked

PS I posted the Choppers first further up this topic

Edit just fixed a typo on 3-JN 658 not 656

Home Tuesday evening, in time hopefully to watch the FF go home ?