The 'black' USAF C-32Bs

[airscaning]

Inbound Lisbon

[Argus 01]

Inbound Lisbon

Routing for BEEF 74 / 00-9001 after Lisbon was Dubrovnik-Shannon-McGuire.

[rh226]

RCH585/98-6006 crossed the Atlantic this morning and did a gas & go at Mildenhall before going on to Lisbon (destination per FighterControl).

Photo showed it as having 12 windows and a small scuff plate, so N610G.

Cheers,

Bob

[n5205e00421]

Interesting to note that the radar history shows 98-6006 departing the Eglin-area 1-Dec around 03:00utc, less than three hours after N610G landed, around 00:20utc. I quess N610G came from a 2-week stay at nearby Mobile Downtown. There must have been either a very quick livery-swap, or only a transponder-switch but then it should have flown as ModeS "N610G" in 98-6006 colours... Still likely to have been the same frame, not many 757's fit the config of 4 doors with small scuff-plates, RR-engines, no winglets.

98-6006 just left (5-Dec) Lisbon towards the east.

[AK01]

RCH585/98-6006 crossed the Atlantic this morning and did a gas & go at Mildenhall before going on to Lisbon (destination per FighterControl).
Photo showed it as having 12 windows and a small scuff plate, so N610G.
Cheers,
Bob

RCH585 / 98-6006 departed Ramstein about 19.05Z today, it arrived RS about 13.45Z today, to the East.
Pieter,

[n5205e00421]

98-6006's tracks end high over Turkey, near where it came from going to Ramstein. Edit: on 7-Dec it made a quick stop at Stuttgart, returning to the US via Bangor.

Not related to this flight but still relevant, I finally found some pics, of 99-6143 in N610G config in 2012, where some remnants can be seen in high-contrast of the Comco-titles that used to be carried on the tail:



Original pics:
https://www.jetphotos.com/photo/7477513
http://planepictures.net/v3/show_en.php?id=1169366

The colour-difference is minimal, even on other pics of the same visit it is not possible to recreate these lighter spots.

L.

[TF-104G]

00-9001 Trix77 from Pease arr at Stuttgart today

[wamovements]

00-9001 Trix77 from Pease arr at Stuttgart today

Pease was only short fuelstop, was before Pease at Phoenix (GA ramp west of ANG ramp)

[freqhopping]

Given the fact that these machines belong to the 150 Special Operations Squadron, would speculate that they brought in some ConUS based special units/forces.

That's exactly what they do. That's why there are frequent stops at Oceana NAS (SEALS) and Pope AFB/Ft Bragg (SF) followed by trips where they do specific training. In addition to missions of course.

On 3/4 Oct 2017 99-6143 paid Brize Norton a visit as RCH584 in N226G-config : https://flic.kr/p/Z8PRi8
This serial had not shown activity since Dec 2016, except for one return-flight Eglin-Greenville Majors in May 2017.

I haven't checked this thread for a while, but I've been keeping a log of my own since Sept. On Oct 4 I watched 99-6143 as GARBY65 at FL180 southbound, over Daytona, FL then land at Patrick AFB at 1300Z. I think it may have come from Pope/Ft Bragg.



No mention of these flights yet, on Dec 9 at 0300Zish I tracked N226G from Duke Field FL, landing at KRDU at 0425Z. Heard as N226G on LiveATC. Then Dec 11 2000Z I caught it at FL380 heading NW over the Florida 'elbow', coming from the direction of the Bahamas. At 2050-2100Z it landed in Mobile.

[freqhopping]

Another thing I noticed years back,

Around 0400Z 12/17/2014 I was tracking AE0438 98-6006 ANNIE35 at FL290. No ADS-B or squawk. It was late here so not much traffic. I lost it for a few minutes and then started receiving N610G A7EF54 on ADS-B squawking 5677, at FL290. Same general location, heading up the Delmarva coast. Nowhere to be seen before that and 98-6006 'disappeared'. Planefinder showed N610G routed CHS to PSM.

[n5205e00421]

I haven't checked this thread for a while, but I've been keeping a log of my own since Sept. On Oct 4 I watched 99-6143 as GARBY65 at FL180 southbound, over Daytona, FL then land at Patrick AFB at 1300Z. I think it may have come from Pope/Ft Bragg.

It came frome BZZ with a fuel-stop in BGR. ADSB-exchange flight history has most of the flights covered:
https://flight-data.adsbexchange.com/ac ... on=99-6143

The N226G-flight you mention is also on there, but in UTC-time it is on the 10th of Dec, and one hour earlier?

Around 0400Z 12/17/2014 I was tracking AE0438 98-6006 ANNIE35 at FL290. No ADS-B or squawk. It was late here so not much traffic. I lost it for a few minutes and then started receiving N610G A7EF54 on ADS-B squawking 5677, at FL290. Same general location, heading up the Delmarva coast. Nowhere to be seen before that and 98-6006 'disappeared'. Planefinder showed N610G routed CHS to PSM

Thanks, I found quite some pics of both 98-6006 and N610G in 2013 and 2015, but none in 2014. Anyway, this fits the theory that (from 2013) 98-6006 is N610G, 99-6143 is N226G, and 02-5001 can be either of them. Before that probably only 99-6143 and 02-5001 were used, on both frames.


L.

[Ajaxfever]

WAYNE79 C-32B 00-9001 (source ADSB) has crossed the Atlantic Ocean. Its now above Wales near Cardiff. Looks like South Europe could be his destination.

[Miles]

WAYNE79 C-32B 00-9001 (source ADSB) has crossed the Atlantic Ocean. Its now above Wales near Cardiff. Looks like South Europe could be his destination.

EINN - LGKR

[F17_114PM]

LGKR = Corfu?

Very interesting!

[Ajaxfever]

LGKR = Corfu?

Very interesting!

now at Stuttgart