Madrid-Torrejón (LETO/TOJ) - MIL 2009

[Piet Luijken]

LOG 2 February 2009:
Final stop during my stop in Madrid was my favourite airport. Well, not today. When I drove around the northern toll road I saw two Hornets landing. Quite exited, also due to the drive through large pools of mud, I arrived at spot 2 at slightly past two. Here, I waited, and waited, till 1530LT. At this stage, the rain had started again so I decided to go numbercrunching. The drive on the dirtroad along the north was again quite exciting, drifting through the mud. Luckily, I did not get stuck. At the bridge, spot 7, I enjoyed a take-off of a Herc and then I started to read all the codes. Strangely enough, there was a Ala15 Hornet in one of the older QRA hangars. Also quite strange were the Dominie's and the USAr Beech. After the take-off of the Airbus I headed to Barajas to end this journey and return my rental car. Time for a Coronita!

TL.10-01 31-01 C-130H-30 Ala31
C.15-18 15-05 EF-18M Ala15
C.15-65 12-23 EF-18M Ala12
C.15-51 12-09 EF-18M Ala12
C.15-50 12-08 EF-18M Ala12
T.17-3 47-03 B707-368C 471Esc Ala47
T.17-2 47-02 B707-331C
T.18-2 45-41 Falcon 900B 451Esc Ala45
T.18-3 45-42 Falcon 900B 451Esc Ala45
T.22-2 45-51 A310-304 451Esc Ala45
UD.13-15 431-15 CL215T Grupo43
UD.13-25 43-25 CL215T Grupo43
UD.13-30 43-30 CL215T Grupo43
UD.13-16 43-16 CL215T Grupo43
UD.13-20 43-20 CL215T Grupo43
UD.13-28 43-28 CL215T Grupo43
CR.12-55 12-64 RF-4C preserved

XS727 D Dominie T1 55(R)sq
XS713 C Dominie T1 55(R)sq
86-00079 C-12J HQ ESEUCOM

[r.e.hendriks]

Hi Piet,

We noted that same Ala 15 Hornet at Torrejon already in October last year.
It flew several local missions together with Ala 12 and CLAEX Hornets.
So it has probably been stationed here for some time.

Best regards, Rob.

[Key]

And seen mid December as well, operating from here.

Erik

[Basman]

Hi Piet,

I guess the Dominies were on some sort of cross-European navigation trip. I spotted them a couple of times at Rome-Ciampino as well, always as a pair. They seem to have a preference for southern-European capitals (can't blame 'em though... ).

Bas

[Piet Luijken]

that does not sound too good. Maybe wfu?

[r.e.hendriks]

I don't think it's wfu.
It flew several missions from Torrejon on 16/17 October 2008.



Best regards, Rob.

[Piet Luijken]

That looks good!

[Joost Michiels]

Noted exactly the same Hornet there in May 2005, so seems te be there for quite some time already...

Regards,

Joost Michiels

[r.e.hendriks]

When we visited Torrejon in october it flew several missions. Some as single ship.
But mostly as a two ship together with a Hornet of CLAEX. So maybe it is used as a chase plane by CLAEX??

Best regards, Rob.

[Key]

And seen mid December as well, operating from here.

I saw it recover on its own.

Erik

[Piet Luijken]

LOG: 31 March 2009

Clouds and a strong easterly wind prevented any nice photography here.
The Spanish Air Force did not fly very good, although the 47-22 made a couple of ILS calibrating passes.

Locals:
HU.15-88 09-116 Bo105CB GuardiaCivil
HU.15-90 09-118 Bo105CBS-4 GuardiaCivil
TM-12D-72 47-12 C212ECM 471Esc GrupoMixte47
UD.13-16 43-16 CL-215T Grupo43
UD.13-20 43-20 CL-215T Grupo43
UD.13-21 43-21 CL-215T Grupo43
UD.13-24 43-24 CL-215T Grupo43
UD.13-28 43-28 CL-215T Grupo43
UD.13-30 43-30 CL-215T Grupo43
C.15-21 12-08 EF-18M Ala12
C.15-34 12-50 EF-18M Ala12
CE.15-12 12-75 EF-18M Ala12
TM.11-2 47-22 Falcon 20D 472Esc GrupoMixte47 dep
TM.11-4 47-24 Falcon 20E 472Esc GrupoMixte47 dep
T.18-1 45-40 Falcon 900 Ala45

Visitors:
33 XA TBM-700A ETE00.043
830500 C-20A VR-1 dep as Catbird
84-0087 C-21A 76AS 86AW

[Piet Luijken]

Lask F-16s will depart to Torrejon for squadron exchange on the 23th of november.
No further info known to me.

[Hermolaus]

Lask F-16s will depart to Torrejon for squadron exchange on the 23th of november.

They actually did. And they are at LETO currently.
But they are to depart tomorrow (4th December) on their way back to Poland.

No further info known to me.

Not a spotter there to fetch us ANY (tiny at least) piece of information on them?...

[Piet Luijken]

Well, thanks to Marc Payne I received a link with some photo's:

http://www.aviationcorner.net/gallery.a ... OJ/LETO%29" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Seen at TOJ were

F-16D 4083, 4085
F-16C 4073

[wamovements]

AFAIK 4065 should also be part of the exercise.