Spangdahlem (ETAD/SPM) - 2008

[Theo03]

eh.... both!!!

[joost]

Cube 51 Currently working 375.700 inb for SP
Tanker Bobby 91 86-0031 Currently with Dutch Mil inb for EGUN (already heard on 122.550 Mildehall Tower)

Grtz
Joost

[Oscar01]

They had also Trend85/86 with them inbound to EGUL...

[joost]

They had also Trend85/86 with them inbound to EGUL...

Nice! must have flown over France then, shame I missed them. They were not with Bobby 91 while over The Netherlands.

Tkx for info though!

[Oscar01]

First KC-10 left ETAD already.

Oscar

[joost]

First KC-10 left ETAD already.

Oscar

Bobby 81 now climbing out of ETAD, showing 79-1710.
Guess this is the second one. (which one was first please?)

grtz
Joost

[joost]

Bobby 01, climbing out of Spang?
Shows as KC135 63-7984

Grtz
Joost

[falcx]

We had 2 KC-10's (91710 & 50034) and 1 AL ANG KC-135R (37984).

Greetz,
Charles

First KC-10 left ETAD already.

Oscar

Bobby 81 now climbing out of ETAD, showing 79-1710.
Guess this is the second one. (which one was first please?)

grtz
Joost

[joost]

We had 2 KC-10's (91710 & 50034) and 1 AL ANG KC-135R (37984).

Greetz,
Charles

First KC-10 left ETAD already.

Oscar

Bobby 81 now climbing out of ETAD, showing 79-1710.
Guess this is the second one. (which one was first please?)

grtz
Joost

Cheers, RCH5034 (85-0034) flew over The Netherlands Yesterday evening. Must have been the one mentioned by Oscar.

Grtz

[Richard de Florennes]

SPANGDAHLEM FRIDAY 2008-09-19 RW05
Weather: blue sky, high clouds by later afternoon, sunny, light wind

Based aircraft (52nd Fighter Wing;
22nd, 23rd and 81st Fighter Squadrons):
A-10A 81stFS 81-951/SP y T08:18 L10:13
A-10A 81stFS 81-945/SP y T08:18 L10:13
A-10A 81stFS 78-701/- - T08:34 L09:08
A-10A 81stFS 79-207/- y T08:34 L09:09
A-10A 81stFS 81-954/SP y T08:35 L09:10
F-16C 22ndFS 90-831/SP r T08:37 L10:22da3
F-16C 22ndFS 91-340/SP r T08:37 L10:23da3
F-16C 23rdFS 91-417/SP bl T08:48 L09:50+a3
F-16C 22ndFS 91-336/SP r T08:50 L10:02*a1
F-16C 22ndFS 91-342/SP r T08:50 L10:02*a1
F-16C 22ndFS 91-352/SP mlt '52 FW' T08:48
F-16D 23rdFS 91-474/SP bl T09:48
F-16C 22ndFS 91-351/SP r T09:48
A-10A 81stFS 81-963/SP y T10:05
A-10A 81stFS ..-.../SP y T10:05
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A-10A 81stFS 81-951/SP y T11:07 L12:48*a2
A-10A 81stFS 81-945/SP y T11:07 L12:48*a2
A-10A 81stFS 81-992/SP y A14:44 L14:49+a1
F-16C 22ndFS 90-827/SP r T13:36 L14:49*+f/p
F-16C 22ndFS 91-391/SP r T13:36 L14:49*+f/p
F-16C 22ndFS 91-340/SP r T13:37 L14:45*+f/p
F-16C 22ndFS 91-338/SP r T13:37 L14:53*+f/p

Detached aircraft (6° and 51°Stormo; 102°, 154°, 103° and 153° Gruppo):
AMX 51°Stormo MM7148/51-61'48' T10:00 L11:35*
AMX 51°Stormo MM7184/51-65'84' T10:00 L11:35*
AMX 51°Stormo MM7169/51-66'69' T10:17 L12:04*
AMX 51°Stormo MM7179/51-64'79' T10:17 L12:04*
AMX 51°Stormo MM7182/51-62'82' T11:05 L13:28da3
AMX 51°Stormo MM7131/51-11'31' T11:05 L13:30da4
Tornado IDS 6°Stormo MM7011/6-13 T09:53 L11:59*a2
Tornado IDS 6°Stormo MM7026/6-35 T09:53 L11:56*a1
Tornado IDS 6°Stormo MM7071/6-12 T10:20 L11:53da1
Tornado IDS 6°Stormo MM7035/6-27 T10:20 L11:53da1
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AMX 51°Stormo MM7148/51-61'48' T13:12 L14:29*
AMX 51°Stormo MM7184/51-65'84' T13:12 L14:29*
AMX 51°Stormo MM7169/51-66'69' T13:35 L17:35*a2
AMX 51°Stormo MM7179/51-64'79' T13:35 L17:35*a2

Visiting aircraft:
C-17A 62ndAW 00183 gn T10:10
C-21A 86thAW 40084 bl 5A10:45
UH-60(L) US Army ..... L12:30 T13:33
UH-60(A) US Army ..... L12:30 T13:33
UH-60(A) US Army ..... L12:30 T13:33
C-21A 86thAW 40084 bl 5A15:20
C-130E 86thAW 64-240/RS bl/w '86 AW' 5A16:30
CC-177 429 Sqn 177701 T17:50

Additional movements (52nd FW re-deploying from Turkey):
F-16C 23rdFS 96-080/SP bl '23 FS' L14:40#4
F-16C 23rdFS 96-081/SP bl L14:40#4
F-16C 23rdFS 96-082/SP bl L14:41#4
F-16C 23rdFS 91-361/SP bl L14:41#4
F-16C 23rdFS 91-407/SP bl L14:42*
F-16C 23rdFS 91-418/SP bl L14:42*
KC-10A 305thAMW 91710 bl L14:43
KC-10A 305thAMW 50034 bl L16:34
F-16C 23rdFS 91-414/SP bl L14:47#4a1
F-16C 23rdFS 92-915/SP bl L14:47#4a1
F-16D 23rdFS 91-481/SP bl L14:48#4a1
F-16D 22ndFS 91-464/SP r L14:48#4a1
F-16C 22ndFS 90-828/SP r L17:08#4
F-16C 22ndFS 90-829/SP r '22 FS' L17:08#4
F-16C 22ndFS 91-406/SP r L17:08#4
F-16C 22ndFS 91-358/SP r L17:08#4
KC-135R 117thARW 37984 wht L15:14 a1

(notes: although some Italian Tornados and AMX’ were detached at Spangdahlem since almost two weeks, I did not find time until the rumoured departure day of the Italians to join a tour of a friendly fellow-spotter and make it to the last USAF fighter base in Germany. Arriving at Spangdahlem right after sun-rise, the sound of based F-16s running up their engines could be heard as soon as we had reached our spotting place and hided ourselves in bushes near the Runway 23 approach.
Soon, flying activity began in the shape of two A-10s, and although 05 was the runway direction of the day, we managed to identify almost all flying aircraft. A nice surprise were three additional A-10s all equipped with one external fuel-tank and two travel-pods performing a joined test-flight (701, 207 and 954), probably indicating their departure back to CONUS within the next couple of days.
While local flying activity of based F-16s was restricted to just five examples in the morning and three additional examples in the afternoon, departures of three further examples and two A-10s to other air-bases made up for some welcome additional activity. Regarding the Italian detachment, some patience was required until all four Tornados and six AMX’ finally became airborne. Surprisingly, they did not only return back to Spang’ after their sorties but some of them performed some nice local flying before landing. Four AMX’ flew again in the afternoon, two of which had to divert to Beauvechain after a blown tyre of a landing based F-16s caused the closure of the runway for around 10 minutes.
While three visiting UH-60s remained unfortunately unidentified so far, the afternoon provided some very nice surprisse for us: a missing-man formation flypast of four based F-16s, and – even better - the return of 14 based F-16s plus three supporting tanker aircraft from an exercise in Turkey. Some airwork of a C-21 and a C-130 from Ramstein plus late departure my first ever Canadian CC-177 completed this really unforgettable aviation day ...)

[TF-104G]

SPANGDAHLEM FRIDAY 2008-09-29 RW05
Weather: blue sky, high clouds by later afternoon, sunny, light wind

Hello RdF you can look into the future ? 29-09 is a comming monday
nice log

[Maurizio]

Hi Richard,

great log!

One correction, not 90-0826 but 90-0828.

Can you confirm that the AMX are still there and not returned home yesterday?

[Richard de Florennes]

Hi Richard,

great log!

One correction, not 90-0826 but 90-0828.

Can you confirm that the AMX are still there and not returned home yesterday?

Thanks for the correction.

I can confirm that five AMXs were parked on the visiting aircraft ramp yesterday when we left at 18.00 hours. The four Tornados were also still present at that time.

AMX 51°Stormo MM7131/51-11'31' however did depart during the afternoon.

The two missing examples to make it eight have been listened departing back to Italy Thursday evening by my spotter friend via radio.
Two more AMXs

[Le Addeur noir]

90-0300 C-20G 76 AS,86 AW Soonr 01 dep ETAR for Spang at 13.04Z.

[falcon]

here my amc results of that day, from 08.15h till 12.00h

C-17's
44134
66158
00183
90061
177701
C-5
90012