North Island, CA (KNZY/NZY) - 2009 MIL

[marcel32us]

REQ spotting spots at North Island, California

Hi All,

Off to California next week on a mostly non-spotting trip to California, and planning to visit North Island.

Would anyone know of any good spots for numbers and/or pics? (Airfield guide here on site is members only, and since there still isn't a web-only membership...)

Regards,
Marcel

[mazzel]

Dog Beach on Coronado puts you in the approach of rw 29. Fridays are often good with lots of weekend visitors. Otherwise activity might be low unless there is a deployment.

You can take one of the harbour tours that goes near the fence. You can see the stored a/c (F-18's), the Midway museum restauration area and lots of SH-60's, but serials are difficult to read.

Best place to read and photograph SH-60's is apparantly Imperial Beach Field on the coast near Mexico, they practise here.

[marcel32us]

Thanks,

Tuesday or wednesday are the only two days I have available, so it ain't gonna be friday unfortunately.

I will probably try the harbourtour and the beach though, and if no activity I'll drive on to Imperial Beach.

Thanks again,
Marcel

[powermaccie]

Hi

Cabrillo lighthouse (Point Loma lighthouse) is also a nice place to see the planes. Reading numbers is not possible. But if runway 36 is in use nice views of planes taking of or landing.

Grtz

Ludo

[nhoogenboom]

Hey Marcel,
We have a airfiled guide of NAS North Island. Check it out here: http://www.scramble.nl/airports/index.html
You can also check out Imperial Beach. which is just south of NASNI. Here the H-60s do there training. (EDIT: Mazzel said that already ). There is also a airfield guide of Imperial Field btw

Gr.Niels

[marcel32us]

You can take one of the harbour tours that goes near the fence. You can see the stored a/c (F-18's).

Took the tour today, saw the F-18's. Would anyone have a list of which ones should be there? I took loads of photo's and some codes can be read. A list would be helpfull.

TIA,
Marcel

[marcel32us]

It sure does, thanks a lot.

Marcel