EGUN 13.01.2017

[Le Addeur noir]

MHZ Friday 13th January visitor,

08-8606 RS bl/wt C-130J 37th AS 86th AW RCH697 dep c11:50

[Nilson]

MHZ Friday 13th January visitor,

08-8606 RS bl/wt C-130J 37th AS 86th AW RCH697 dep c11:50

Unit correct?

[Le Addeur noir]

MHZ Friday 13th January visitor,

08-8606 RS bl/wt C-130J 37th AS 86th AW RCH697 dep c11:50

Unit correct?

Seen departing on ADS-B.

A check and this (ex) Ramstein C-130J should now be with the 48th AS. The RCH callsign should mean it was not a 37th AS bird.

Since then, the real reason for being at Mildenhall today, C-12/Beech 350 15-01584 calling Army 51584 has arrived from Keflavik (BIKF) at 13:04.

Other visitors on the ground here when the "C-12"? landed (and the C-5 that arrived later),

85-0007 bl C-5M 9th AS 436th AW RCH172 arr 14:??
86-0030 bl KC-10A 305th AMW
08-8198 y C-17A 437th AW RCH982 departed 16:34

15-01584 departed around 15:00. It should be somewhere 'south and east' of here by now.

[Bennie]

MHZ Friday 13th January visitor,

08-8606 RS bl/wt C-130J 37th AS 86th AW RCH697 dep c11:50

Unit correct?

Seen departing on ADS-B.

A check and this (ex) Ramstein C-130J should now be with the 48th AS. The RCH callsign should mean it was not a 37th AS bird.
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Apart from the unit, is she still sporting bl/wh and RS marks?

[Le Addeur noir]

Seen departing on ADS-B.

A check and this (ex) Ramstein C-130J should now be with the 48th AS. The RCH callsign should mean it was not a 37th AS bird.
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Apart from the unit, is she still sporting bl/wh and RS marks?[/quote]

Bennie,

I heard the C-130 depart, and as I was looking for inbound the C-12 on ADS-B just out of sight of the base, was unable to see the markings.

I should have realised it was the Ramstein bird that went back from the RCH callsign. It was heading east from here, so it could well be at Ramstein by now.

[dinger]

08-8606 now sports a white 'The Rock' fin band. Images of her departure are on social media.

Dinger

[Le Addeur noir]

08-8608 now sports a white 'The Rock' fin band. Images of her departure are on social media.

Dinger

48th AS.

[pjotrtje]

08-8608? Or 07-8608, as 08-8608 does not seem to exist...

[Le Addeur noir]

08-8608? Or 07-8608, as 08-8608 does not seem to exist...

08-8606 is the serial. The Scramble DB gives this as 48th AS of the 19th AW 'The Rock' as evidently it was on social media as.

[pjotrtje]

Really....? Check again 08-8608 does not exist (08-8607 is the last serial given out to the USAF in 2008), 07-8608 is still listed as with 37th AS, l/n Oct16. That doesn't mean that 07-8608 isn't now with the 48th AS. 07-8608 is MSN 382-5622.

[Nilson]

Really....? Check again 08-8608 does not exist (08-8607 is the last serial given out to the USAF in 2008), 07-8608 is still listed as with 37th AS, l/n Oct16. That doesn't mean that 07-8608 isn't now with the 48th AS. 07-8608 is MSN 382-5622.

See first post 08-8606 not 08-8608!

[pjotrtje]

Exactly

[dinger]

Apologies for the confusion with my reply. The aircraft in question is indeed 08-8606 which now sports the Little Rock band as seen at Mildenhall this week. I have amended my original reply.

Dinger.