EGUN 04-07-2011

[Piet Luijken]

LOG:

With our AGL basevisit to Benson cancelled, we still had two tickets and a day off.
Looking around on the map of the UK, we decided to drive to RAF Mildenhall for good old's sake as we had visited the Air Fete may times in our youth.
Furthermore, the base is quite open, taking pictures is not too hard and the Lakenheath Eagles were based here too for the moment.

On the way to the airport we looked at the date again, fourth of July, independence day, day off for all americans.
Looking at the logs of previous years and at NOTAMS it seems to us that the airport was still open so some limited flying should happen.
Also, most aircraft should be on the ground which gives us possibilities for good logging.

We arrived sunday evening quite late and stayed at the Travelodge.
After our small Travelodge breakfast we took our Fiat 500 for a spin around the base to log all aircraft.
After this tour we went to the camping site The Nook to have a nice, quiet day at the fence.
In the afternoon they changed to runway 29 so we moved and walked to The Mound.

BASED
MC-130P 67SOS 65-0992, 64-14854, 66-0220
MC-130H 7SOS 87-0023, 87-0024, 88-0195
KC-135R 351 ARS 63-8019, 62-3540, 60-0342, 61-0306, 63-8006, 63-7979
61-0306 dep around two as UPI804 while 63-7979 arr as UPI802 slightly later.

TEMP BASED
F-15C 493FS 86-0175/LN, 84-0015/LN, 86-0178/LN
F-15E 492FS 96-0202/LN, 97-0217/LN, 01-2001/LN/multi
a total of 21 Eagles were parked at the north side near the beginning of runway 11

VISITORS
C-5B 9AS 84-0062 blue/yellow Dover
C-5B 337AS 86-0019 blue Westover, dep as Reach612 at 1210
CT-49A NAEW&CF LX-N20199 dep at 0900
KC-135R 77ARS 57-1456 Lindbergh
KC-135R 77ARS 57-2599 Lindbergh
KC-135R 92ARW 63-8879 Fairchild
KC-135R 22ARW 60-0348 McConnell
RC-135V 38RS 64-14844/OF
KC-135R 92ARW 59-1475 Fairchild

Greetings

Piet Luijken
Erwin Bakker

[pascal]

Thx for sharing!