Savannah/KSAV Mil 2016

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Two more Turkish Chinooks arrived today, one calling Army 07461 not sure of the other. All three seen parked at the docks at lunchtime

C130 80-0322 was flying today as Yankee 41, so may well be going to the CT ANG.

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Chinooks read as 7461/7462/7463 this morning. Still parked outside at the docks

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Arriving today were the following 334FS/4FW F15Es all with blue fin stripes except 1686 which had no stripe
87-0184, 0193, 0194, 0205
88-1679, 1686, 1690, 1702,1703, 1704 "334FS"
89-0481, 0499, 0500
Plus one other I didn't read

Visiting was 89-1055 yl/bk C130H 758AS which departed as Pitt 55

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The missing F15E was 88-1698

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Looks like another Savannah Sentry is about to start. 14-16 325FW F22s and 7 T38s have arrived so far. At least 4 of the Raptors are 95FS aircraft (arrived as Bones 01 flight). Will post details as I get them...

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Serials noted so far, all coded TY

F22s
00-4017
01-4018, 4022, 4023,
02-4029, 4030, 4031, 4034
03-4041, 4042, 4043 "43FS"
05-4097, 4098, 4104
(04-4083) "301FS"

T38s
61-0904 si
62-3715 yl
66-8404 yl
68-8150, 8177, 8204 all yl
70-1559 yl

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Three different T38s noted today
62-3615 yl "2FTS"
62-3706 si
68-8172 yl

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Interesting visitor today was Dominican AF Casa 212 FAD-3502
Also in
2303 HC144A Cape Cod
08-3177, 08-5712 both flg C130J 317AW

[wonju666]

Eleven F-22 Raptors are reported to have arrived here today (Saturday!) for exercise Bold Quest; F-35s, F/A-18s and F-16s were also seen operating out of KSAV the last couple of days

[pilotman6012]

Quite a bit in the area for the exercise:

LJ-35 D-CARL KITE
F/A-18F VFA-211 NIKEL
F/A-18A VMFA-122 NIKEL
F-15E 4Th Fw ROCKET
F-16 85Th Tes RACER
MC-12S 224Th Mi Btln SHADY
E-3 552Nd Acw SENTRY

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F16s were:
90-0841, 97-0107, 98-0004, 98-0005 all bk/wt OT
90-0836 wt/bl ET

F/A18Fs
166797/AB-200
166799/AB-201
166805/AB-202
166812/AB-206
166677/AB-214

I didn't see any F15Es or F35s last week, they may have been flying from elsewhere?

The Hornets left yesterday and were replaced with 10 AL ANG F16s
Two TY T38s also came in during the week

No F22s had arrived by the time I left around 11am to go to Florida, hopefully they will still be there next week

I suspect Bold Quest will end and a Sentry will start with them here...

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Sentry ended Wednesday 9th with the F16s leaving that day and the F22s the following day.

F16s noted were (all coded AL):
87-0218, 0219, 0220, 0221, 0232, 0271, 0276, 0332 "187FW", 0336 (red tail "9AF"), 0342
88-0151 (red tail), 0400

F22s (all coded TY):
04-4078, 4080, 4088
05-4094, 4097, 4098, 4101, 4104, 4106, 4107
Plus special marks "95FS" and "44FG" which went unconfirmed
Several others were reported the first week which I did not see, 4084, 4089, 4096, 4105 so there may have been a change over

T38s (all coded TY with yellow fin stripes)
62-3715
68-8172, 8177, 8204
70-1559
70-1574 was reported first week but I did not see it

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Arriving today were the following CV22s
0055
0070
0072
0073
No FYs read

Looks like they are here for a while. There are also some HSC-26 MH60S in, have not read any yet but one showed as 167852 on the SBS on Wednesday.

[pilotman6012]

Should be activity next week,COMPUTEX is coming up and OMEGA 10 (KDC-10) N974VV landed at Myrtle Beach yesterday evening,so F/A-18 will be involved.