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According to the NAF El Centro PAO, the San Diego event on February 12 will feature a 300 aircraft flyby and will close down San Diego airspace for 20 minutes. No specifics on what kind of aircraft yet.
USNavy documents still show a fly-pass of 150 a/c operating out of Miramar, El Centro and North Island, and indeed closing down a big part of the San Diego area but also bit longer then 20 min
ROUMOURS indicate that at least 2 carriers should be open for public: 1 "empty" (these will deploy to El Centro) and 1 "full".... but again, these are roumours!
Latest on the USS Midway site quotes ' flypast of 150-200 vintage naval aircraft' plus helicopter displays and the Blue Angels' They do seem to be playing close to their chest for a major event that's 7 weeks away .
There will be an open house at NAS North Island op Februari 12 gates open at 08.00 and flypast will start at 13.00, static show of over 75 (vintage) aircraft. There will also be (guided?) tours on the USS Stennis.
Latest from PA at El Centro is that flypast aircraft will use Brown Field Municipal airport in San Diego and Miramar only. I would assume vintage/warbird stuff at the former and fast jets at the latter ????????????????
Latest on US websites quote a static of 75 a/c, incl. examples of all the centenary marked a/c, plus a flypast of 190 a/c comprising 30 vintage types and the rest currently serving a/c ( USN , USMC and USCG ) including a ' complete carrier Air Wing ' In the bay should be USS Stennis and Pelileu ( ?) but whether they will have a/c embarked is unclear. Anyway , together with the North Island based a/c , it should make a reasonable day out !
The Parade of Flight will be composed of 190 aircraft the span the Century of Naval Aviation. There will be more than 160 current inventory aircraft from the Coast Guard, Marines and Navy. The finale will be a 30 plus plane formation fly-by from Carrier Air Wing 9 of the USS John C. Stennis Carrier Strike Group. The Blue Angels will lead the Parade of flight and will be followed by almost 30 historic Navy warbirds including the STM Ryan, N3N Canary, N2S Stearman, SNJ Texan, SNB Kansan, FM-2 Wildcat, F6F Hellcat, F8F Bearcat, F4U Corsair, TBM Avenger, SBD Dauntless, PV-2 Harpoon, SB2C Helldiver, HU-16 Albatross, Four T-28 Trojans, Four T-34B Mentors, A-1 Skyraider, FJ-4 Fury, T-2 Buckeye, and T-33B Shooting Star
Cordially
Nh
Suffice to say the event was AWESOME. In addition to a superb static of all the special marked a/c ( marred for photos by the lack of barriers ) and the based a/c logged ( 50+ SH-60's, 90+ F-18's ) the flypast lasted 2 hours 20 mins. Still working out the serials /units etc but as a taster, in addition to the vintage stuff, comprised :
Blue Angels
1 x F-18/ 1 x T-38
1 x UH-1
2 x AV-8
2 x UH-1/ 2 x AH-1
1x C-130/ 2 x CH-53
2 x Osprey
2 x AV-8
4 x UH-1/4 x AH-1
8 x CH-53
1 x Citation/ 1 x UC-12
2 x C-130
12 x CH-46
2 x C-130
4 x AV-8
2 x F-18
1 x CN295
1 x HC-130
1 x Jet Ranger
3 x SH-60
2 x SH-60
2 x T-34C
2 x T-6
1 x T-39
2 x T-45
1 x S-3
1 x E-2
2 x C-2
1 x Gulf III
1 x P-3
1 x C-9
1 x E-8
3 x F-18
4 x F-18
2 x F-16N
2 x EA-6B
1 x EA-6B / 2 x FA-18G
4 x F-5E
4 x F -5F
4 x F-18
4 x F-18
and the finale a mile wide flypast of a 'complete carrier wing ' - I counted 31 F-18's , 2 x E-2 and 3 x EA-6B , all out Miramar
Gaps ? What gaps ? That is an excellent list, thanks very much. I assume you were at Miramar for the launch ?I was there on the Friday but a little constrained as to access to the ramp but I will check if I recorded any of your queries.
It was possibly the best display I have seen in 50 years of spotting
hawk666 wrote:Gaps ? What gaps ? That is an excellent list, thanks very much. I assume you were at Miramar for the launch ?I was there on the Friday but a little constrained as to access to the ramp but I will check if I recorded any of your queries.
It was possibly the best display I have seen in 50 years of spotting
No, I wasn't at Miramar, but photographed the flypast from the parking near the static at North Island. I found some pictures from the Miramar launch online, and was able to read about three-four extra serials from those pics.
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