Nellis AFB ( KLSV/LSV ) - 2012 MIL

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last I saw 87-26007 was may 2011.
don't have record of seeing 87-26012.
they do have some in Afghanistan, could be them?

[Key]

Anyone have any experience with Nellis just before Aviation Nation? Photography from outside any different than usual, like more/less hassle with security?

TIA!
Erik

[wamovements]

AFAIK no extra security issues or blocked roads. On the showdays itself however the road to the speedway is heavily secured due to the fact the areas around the speedway are used as parking for the airshow visitors.

Why this question, AFAIK no Aviation Nation is planned for the comming years, or did I miss something?

Edit: just noticed this event returned in this year schedule; to be held at 10 and 11 november.
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december 5, 2012
A-10 MD 78-0637, 78-0640, 79-0082, 79-0087
B-1 DY blue/white 85-0080/28BS-CC, 86-0124
B-1 OT 86-0120
B-52 BD 60-0038, 60-0057/340WPS, 61-0021
MC-12 10-0728
C-17 McChord 88-0265, 89-1190, 02-1103
C-130H Wyoming 91-1653
C-130H Savannah 80-0321
C-130J TheRock white 06-4634
AC-130 90-0165
EC-130H DM 73-1586
HC-130 69-5820
MC-130H 87-0126, 88-0192, 88-0264
E-3 ZZ orange 75-0558
E-8 GA 97-0201
EA-6B AJ VAQ-134 501/164401, 502/163886, 503/163396
EA-18B NL VAQ-138 511/166896, 512/166897, 513/166898, 514/166900
EA-18G NSAWC 500/168273, 501/168274
F-15C OT black/wh 84-0018, 86-0170
F-15D ET 84-0046
KC-10 McGuire 86-0032
KC-135 Fairchild 58-0055
KC-135 MacDill 63-8887
KC-135 McConnell 61-0267, 63-8002
RC-135 OF blue 62-4132
UC-28 07-0821
WB-57 NASA N928NA
Gulfstream N510AG
HawkerBeech300 N545KA

[Key]

Whoa, that is arguably at least as good as Aviation Nation.

To confirm the anwer to my own question above: on the Friday before the show, all was relaxed. No objections at all to parking at the usual spots, despite markers already present to close the verges of N Las Vegas Blvd.
Only flying I saw was the show rehearsel and a few static arrivals. Most aircraft used 21L.

Erik

[Piet Luijken]

11/29/2012 - Nellis Air Force Base, Nev. -- Southern Nevada residents may notice increased military aircraft activity as the Air Force conducts Red Flag 13-2 from 21 Jan. - 1 Feb.

Red Flag is a realistic combat training exercise involving the air forces of the United States and its allies. The exercise is hosted north of Las Vegas on the Nevada Test and Training Range--the U.S. Air Force's premier military training area with more than 12,000 square miles of airspace and 2.9 million acres of land. With 1,900 possible targets, realistic threat systems and an opposing enemy force that cannot be replicated anywhere else in the world, Nellis and the NTTR are the home of a "peacetime battlefield," providing combat air forces with the ability to train to fight together, survive together and win together.

The 414th Combat Training Squadron is responsible for executing Red Flag and the exercise is just one of a series of advanced training programs administered at Nellis AFB and on the NTTR by organizations assigned to the U.S. Air Force Warfare Center.

More than 90 aircraft are scheduled to depart Nellis twice a day, around noon and again around 6 p.m. Aircraft may remain in the air for up to eight hours. The flying times are scheduled to accommodate the other flying missions at Nellis and provide Red Flag participants with valuable training in planning and executing a wide-variety of combat missions.

The exercise will include U.S. forces and aircraft from:

- 57th Wing, 64th Aggressors Squadron F-16Cs, Nellis AFB, Nev.
- 57th Wing, 65th Aggressors Squadron F-15Cs, Nellis AFB, Nev.
- 138th Fighter Wing, 125th Fighter Squadron F-16s, Tulsa, Okla.
- United States Navy, VFA-25 F-18Es, NAS Lemoore, Calif.
- United States Navy, VAQ-138 EA-18G Growlers, NAS Whidbey Island, Wash.
- 366th Fighter Wing, 389th Fighter Squadron F-15Es, Mountain. Home AFB, Idaho.
- 2nd Bomb Wing, 20th Bomb Squadron B-52s, Barksdale AFB, La.
- 7th Bomb Wing, 9th Bomb Squadron B-1s, Dyess AFB, Texas.
- 52nd Fighter Wing, 480th Fighter Squadron F-16CJs, Spangdalem AFB, Germany.
- 23rd Wing, 41st Rescue Squadron HH-60s, Moody AFB, Ga.
- 23rd Wing, 71st Rescue Squadron HC-130s, Moody AFB, Ga.
- 552nd Air Combat Wing, 960th Airborne Air Control Squadron E-3s, Tinker AFB, Okla.
- 22nd Air Refueling Wing, KC-135s, McConnell AFB, Kan.

In addition to U.S. aircraft, Netherlands' F-16s, Singapore's F-16s and Sweden's Gripens will participate.