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We had N917NA at North Island for a few hours on the 15th.

If you missed it at Edwards, now's your chance to see it at the Palm Springs Air Museum. It'll be on display through at least March 27. The museum has a large number of aircraft on display, including a F-117. The weather this time of year is spectacular. https://www.desertsun.com/story/life/2024/02/...

Royal Air Force Airbus A400M ZM409 //DRDNT01 on scanner I' m visiting family in SF, someone looks out the window and exclaims WHAT IS THAT?! At first I was thinking C-17, well, because you don't expect the RAF to be laying down a buzz job on Alcatraz at 200 AGL. They had the rear ramp door open, it ...

Navy already working to raise the bird. It's in less than 20' of water, and going over the bridge this morning there was a crane barge anchored at the site. Have to try and get some photos later today. EDIT: definitely modex 400, painted in CAG colors. When they first pulled it out of the water they...

12 January

via Binoculars...

Blue Angel 3 overhead break to recovery on 29.

9 January

Jets sleeping, very quiet at beach with Ospreys still grounded

N368SS DHC-6 Kahuna 68
N238PT DHC-4 Kahuna 38
YJ 245 BUNO 165245 USMC CH-53E // HMH-WEST on fuselage, WARHORSE (HMH-465) on scanner

Binocular report. Yesterday a squadron of 6xEA-18G came in. The time between the first bird and the last was too short to get out to the beach. Too back-lit to get anything off the tails. Interestingly, they used the callsign FLASHBACK, which I've never heard before. That was the callsign of VAQ-34,...

Oh hey, just realized this for 24-1: the Super Bowl is in Las Vegas on Feb 11th. I haven't made up my mind about going to Vegas for 24-1, but if I do, I won't be there anywhere near game day. The airport is gonna be jammed up, hotel rates up, and traffic is going to be crazy.

It could be a nice day at the beach if they use the right runway. Ha ha, it was a good day to work on your tan, and play with dogs. The last 2 days have seen a grand total of 2 F-18s landing during daylight hours, one F-18E Monday and one Growler yesterday. No other fast movers landing in the day. ...

Back in the 60s, when I was a wee lad, JAL Flight 2 (DC-8-62) landed/ditched/crashed more than a mile short of the runway at SFO in 7' of water. We could actually see it from our backyard, and my dad drove us down to the park where the passengers disembarked from their life rafts to see it closer up...

Binocular/naked eye spotting from the front door last week-- some VFA-122 Supers and various VAQ-129 Growlers including one with CAG colors. I figured they were in town for CQ dets and sure enough, Lincoln left after they arrived. I haven't been at the beach because we went to Vegas for a long weeke...

169561 landing at NASNI in 2021...

At LEAST 20. On the way to the World Famous I-Bar* we cruised past the T-Line and pretty much the entire airwing was parked. The beer was waiting so I wasn't looking at numbers, but I did see the Blue Blasters and Fighting Checkmates CAG birds. * Either somebody hasn't seen Top Gun Maverick, or they...

October 5th

US Navy VRM-30 Titans 'Rudy'
Bell Boeing CMV-22B CODsprey
71/BUNO 169456 //Rudy 71 special paint

This is one of the CODspreys that will be forward deployed in Japan.

gachipchase1@gmail.com wrote: ↑27 Sep 2023, 10:29 Also a dark green Caribou….

There have been 2 Caribou flying out of NASNI the past couple years. Per Flightaware, N302PT has been in Arizona most/all of September, so I'd say you saw N238PT.