Aviano (LIPA/AVB) - 2007

Eric van Lisdonk · Post by **Eric van Lisdonk** » 03 Nov 2007, 19:44

Hi Maurizio,

I can only help you with your Herky432. And that was C-130H 94-6708 from 130AW/WV ANG.

Cheers,
Eric

Piet Luijken · Post by **Piet Luijken** » 08 Dec 2007, 23:44

LOG 5 december 2007

90-0800 AV F-16DG 555FS 31FW
90-0772 AV F-16CG 555FS 31FW
88-0526 AV F-16CG 510FS 31FW
89-2009 AV F-16CG 510FS 31FW
88-0532 AV F-16CG 555FS 31FW
89-2178 AV F-16DG 510FS 31FW
89-2023 AV F-16CG 555FS 31FW
89-2044 AV F-16CG 555FS 31FW
89-2011 AV F-16CG 510FS 31FW
89-2026 AV F-16CG 510FS 31FW
89-2057 AV F-16CG 510FS 31FW
88-0491 AV F-16CG 510FS 31FW
89-2137 AV F-16CG multi 31FW "31OG" markings
87-0350 AV F-16CG 555FS 31FW
89-2001 AV F-16CG multi 31FW "31FW" markings
89-2049 AV F-16CG 510FS 31FW
90-0795 AV F-16DG 555FS 31FW
89-2029 AV F-16CG 510FS 31FW
89-2018 AV F-16CG 510FS 31FW
89-2068 AV F-16CG 555FS 31FW
90-0777 AV F-16DG 510FS 31FW
95-00124 UC-35A1 Comp E 5-62th AVN Callsign Duke09
70-1260 RS C-130E 37AS 86AW "86OG" markings callsign Herky73
RA-85655 Tu154M/UC1 Open Skies Mission callsign Open Sky 334

On this sunny day I arrived here at the west side, spot 1, at around nine o'clock. There was no need to question any activities this day as the first Falcons landed already. I walked to spot 1 but for the nice shots with the mountaineous background I had to position myself in the open field. A green car stopped very soon, made some turns, stopped again while the driver was frantically calling. Time to move to spot 2 where I met some fellow spotters from Italy. Here you have a good view onto the runway and final while being away from the base and a bit obscured to the public road. The F-16s performed on many missions, each took about an hour, but also many touch and goes and simulated flame-outs were made. A Citation and a Herc were some nice visitors. Special visitor was the Russian Air Force Tu154 which was on a Open Skies Mission and made a fly-over at around 3 km height.
At two oçlock all flying was stopped so time to move on.
Many thanks to Claudio, Maurizio and Paolo for their hospitality.

greetings

Maurizio · Post by **Maurizio** » 09 Dec 2007, 14:40

Hi Piet,

nice to see your pictures.

Two add/corrections:
The UC-35 c/s was "Duke 09" not "Jalop 11"
The Tu 154 c/s was "OpenSky 334"

and believe the 88-0526 is a 555th FS viper, will chek next week.

Ciao

Maurizio

Piet Luijken · Post by **Piet Luijken** » 09 Dec 2007, 14:52

Hi Maurizio,

Callsigns have been updated, thanks for the update.

The 88- 0526 was parked left of the runway on the west side between two shelters.

ciao