Tornado GR4 Fleet General Info

[Vulcanone]

Steve

UK Serials also has the following pair as having joined RTP this month

082 ZD714
120 ZG709

Tim

[andyco]

Had him on sbs or some one using its code:

43C142 ZA560 050 Tornado GR4 CMU BS024/082/3044 Marham 18/07/13 sbs callsign

[np1991]

Noted at Lossie yesterday (8/1) and today (9/1) was,

015/ZA406 - no idea when this returned to XV Sqn
032/ZA473 - flying with XV Sqn
051/ZA562 - arrived today as Tarnish 21 and went to XV Sqn line.
055/ZA587 - tail seen sticking out of TEF.

[Vulcanone]

Hi Steven

I had a rough count earlier and if I'm right and they haven't chopped some more of the missing jets, I make 107 survivors of 145 conversions

Tim S

[Gary]

ZA560 /050 showing airborne under a BAE call sign. First time for 6 months by the look of it

[Vulcanone]

Well it looks like 039 ZA547 and 089 ZD741 won't be among these UK serials has them as having departed to Leeming Oh

Tim S

[Gary]

ZA547/ 039 is the Million hours jet, if it has gone to Leeming . It only went some time late last week as it was about on Monday or Tuesday from memory

[BatmanIX]

ZA547 / 039 (Million Hours) departed RAF Marham this morning (14/01/14) with no external stores/hard points and landed at RAF Leeming.

The fleet seems to be dropping like flies now!!

Paul

[BatmanIX]

Noted at Marham on Monday 13th January were...

A.M
ZA560 / 050 - WTN21
ZA370 / 004 - BULKHEAD2
ZA461 / 026 - VAMPIRE1
ZA395 / 009 - MRH35 (to the hot pits)
ZA453 / 022 - BULKHEAD1
ZD844 / 107 - MRH48 (to the hot pits)
ZG707 / 119 - VAMPIRE2
P.M
ZA395 / 009 - MRH35
ZD844 / 107 - MRH48
ZA398 / 010 - SPARTAN1
ZA542 / 035 - SPARTAN2
ZA372 / 006 - FANG1
ZG727 / 126 - FANG2
ZA556 / 047 - MRH58
ZD792 / 100 - TIRPITZ1

Cheers, Paul

[06L]

Hi all,

ZD749/097 departed Marham yesterday to Lossie as "LOSSIE 30".

ZA547 / 039 (Million Hours) departed RAF Marham this morning (14/01/14) with no external stores/hard points and landed at RAF Leeming.

039's callsign was "MARHAM 24" if anyone is interested.

Graham

[06L]

ZA613/075 airborne from Marham today. Flying with 31 SQN.

Graham

[06L]

It appears that ZA601/066/EB-B went to RTP at Leeming yesterday as TARNISH 21.

Graham

[Steven]

Many thanks all for the continued updates. I haven't been able to update the list for a while due to my laptop being drenched in water! Once I replace it I'll be able to update the list as the PC i'm using at the moment is far too slow and prone to crashing!

Graham - Can you confirm ZA601 landed at Leeming then and not BAe Warton? I was at Coningsby on the 16th and saw her depart clean so naturally I assumed the worst.

Steven.

[np1991]

055/ZA587 flew today (21/1/14) as Lossie 03 but returned on a PAN and took the 23 approach end cable.
Tarnish 21 departed Lossie about 1530L today, but I don't know which jet it was.
097/ZD749 is flying with XV. It was active yesterday (20/1/14).

[Gary]

Nial

Tarnish 21 showing on PP at the moment appears to be on approach to Warton

Tarnish 21 showing on PP as Tornado GR4 [43C167] ZD742 /090

Also the following should be the US det jets + one unknown at this stage (piecing together by photos on the web and PP data)

ZA370 / 004
ZA372 / 006
ZA453 / 022
ZA461 / 026
ZD792 / 100
ZG727 / 126
ZG729 / 127

[Steven]

List updated at last! Thanks again everyone. Still waiting for confirmation on whether ZA601/EB-B landed at Leeming last Thursday or not.

Steven.

[06L]

Graham - Can you confirm ZA601 landed at Leeming then and not BAe Warton? I was at Coningsby on the 16th and saw her depart clean so naturally I assumed the worst.

Steven.

Hi Steven,

Sorry for the late reply, been doing some digging to find out where ZA601 went to.
It now appears that it may not have gone into Leeming. From the info I have it doesn't appear to have gone into Warton either. So it would seem it may well have gone to Lossie (TEF?).
TARNISH 21 flew 090 from Lossie to Warton yesterday, so it could be feasible that ZA601 was indeed taken to Lossie by TARNISH 21 (ZA601 went low level off Newcastle on the 16th heading North).
It's one to keep an eye out for.

Thanks to webmonkeyuk for his assistance.
Graham

[Gary]

Just an update regarding the US det jets, was away from the scanner / PP for the second attempt and only just checked

ZA372 / 006 is showing up flying over the UK under a Tarnish call sign, so looks like they must have swapped jets when they had the couple hour slip on Sunday.

Checking my PP logs for Sunday might have been replaced by 119

Ascot 9725 - ZG707 /119

[Gary]

Thanks Steven hope you had a good birthday the other day

Ok checking the bernews.com they have pics of the jet departing and the following seems to be the complete list.

ZA370 / 004
ZA372 / 006
ZA453 / 022
ZA461 / 026
ZA546 / 038
ZG707/ 119
ZG727 / 126
ZG729 / 127

http://bernews.com/2014/01/photos-raf-m ... g-bermuda/

[06L]

Thanks Steven hope you had a good birthday the other day

Ok checking the bernews.com they have pics of the jet departing and the following seems to be the complete list.

ZA370 / 004
ZA372 / 006
ZA453 / 022
ZA461 / 026
ZA546 / 038
ZG707/ 119
ZG727 / 126
ZG729 / 127

http://bernews.com/2014/01/photos-raf-m ... g-bermuda/

Gary,

So a GR.4 is unaccounted for out of these as 006 is airborne now?

It looks like 005 has gone into RTP this afternoon, last logged on a Leeming squawk!

Graham