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F17_114PM
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by F17_114PM 06 Sep 2016, 14:41
According to kokpit.aero, the 141, 142 and 143 Filo from Ankara-Akinci will be (or are already?) disbanded, because of the military coup!
Le Addeur noir
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by Le Addeur noir 08 Sep 2016, 17:29
The Akinci wing was closed down immediatly after the coup attempt. Allegedly F-4E 2020s from one of the 2 filos still operating them bombed the runway there, to prevent any further aircraft movements.
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by Wrecks 08 Sep 2016, 18:57
The base is apparently also no longer called Akinci, but is back to its old name Murted.
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by F17_114PM 08 Sep 2016, 20:49
And now also Bandirma is rumored to be closed ...
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by KIER 13 Nov 2016, 22:24
Google Earth image, dated august 2nd 2016 (just 2 weeks after the coup) , shows a hit of the bombed runway just in the middle....... And a lot of military activity with helicopters.....
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by Melchior Timmers 14 Nov 2016, 14:34
And lot's of cars/trucks blocking the runway and taxi-ways...
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by Richard from Rotterdam 14 Nov 2016, 15:36
Heard on the Dutch radio news last week that the Turkish Air Force has an acute lack of pilots at the moment. Is this because of the Gulen fall out as well?
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by ehusmann 14 Nov 2016, 15:52
Seems to be indeed, according to news sources over 300 pilots were fired and only a handful of retired pilots opted to return into active service. And now a similar thing seems to happening in the navy where several hundred (again according to news sources) officers have been removed from active duty.
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by roberto 14 Nov 2016, 15:55
143 filo is now 153 filo with the same squadron markings
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by frank kramer 14 Nov 2016, 21:47
Being renamed 153 Filo would imply that the unit has been transferred to the 5th Main Jet Base at Merzifon.
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by K-9 15 Nov 2016, 01:30
That's what's mentioned in the scramble orbat ( TuAF ).
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by F17_114PM 15 Nov 2016, 08:41
112 Filo will be the third TuAF F-35 Squadron
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by jah wise 17 Nov 2016, 10:05
W&R wrote: The base is apparently also no longer called Akinci, but is back to its old name Murted.
Murted is toch Incirlik ipv Akinci
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by pjotrtje 17 Nov 2016, 11:03
Nope. Incirlik = Adana.
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by ehusmann 17 Nov 2016, 22:51
ehusmann wrote: according to news sources over 300 pilots were fired
This article mentions that over 300 pilots were fired, out of a total force of about 600. So that's half their pilots gone...
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