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What should be wrong with these FY81 serials? The reported FMS serials are exactly the ones that were assigned many years ago. Bear in mind these are original PAF F-16s and not former USAF examples.Superscouse wrote:Can you recheck the USAF serials for the two Pakistani AF F-16s as FY 81 cannot be correct. Are they FY82 ? In which case both are F-16A.
KHIF is their destination. Hill AFB.The 2 Pakistan vipers will take of saturday 12 january at 11.00h local Lajes time........don't know the heading.......
Should be ones from Battle Creek, MA returning from their tour of duty. They were relieved by the Spangdahlem based 81st FS.falcon wrote:Lajes is expecting A-10's aswel today......maybe they have landed already, more news to come............o yeah, the RAF tornado's have cancelled again !!
J.J. wrote:Some background info related to the latest A-10 Thunderbolt II ("Warthog") stopovers at Lajes:
[...] The MD and BC jets (probably only ten alltogether) were originally deployed with an ANG "Rainbow Team" for Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) to the 438th Air Expeditionary Group (AEG) at Al Asad Airfield, Iraq (mainly operated by the USMC with deployed land-based F/A-18 Hornets/Super Hornets, AV-8 Harriers, EA-6B Prowlers and helicopters).
In November, all of these deployed ANG Hogs (the very first combat-deployed A-10Cs!!!) were relocated from Al Asad Airfield to Bagram AB in <52 hrs of Warning Order following worldwide grounding of F-15 fleet after the F-15C mishap on November 2. In this case, the Hogs were forward-deployed to fulfil combat missions for twelve F-15Es already deployed to Bagram AB with the 336th EFS from Seymour Johnson AFB).
[...]
Anybody who can verify the serial numbers of the returning jets for cross-checking with the known serials of the deployed jets?Battle Creek Enquirer wrote: Members of 110th return from Afghanistan tour
January 16, 2008
Trace Christenson
The Enquirer
About 169 members of the 110th Fighter Wing of the Battle Creek Air National Guard landed late Tuesday at W.K. Kellogg airport after two months in Afghanistan.
The plane carrying the unit touched down about 9:55 p.m. as families cheered and waved American flags.
Members of the guard base were on the tarmac in the cold night air as the guard members streamed off the plane.
Col. Rodger Seidel, commander of the 100th [They mean the 110th - J.J.], and Maj. Gen. Thomas G. Cutler, adjutant general of the Michigan National Guard, also greeted the group.
The troops were among 220 members from the base who were deployed two months ago to Operation Iraqi Freedom, splitting a 120-day deployment with a Maryland guard unit from Baltimore.
Maj. Robert DeCoster, spokesman for the 110th, said about 25 of the deployed guard members already returned and the remainder, who are flying support for a half-dozen A-10 attack planes, which must make several refueling stops, will be back with the planes in Battle Creek in the next two or three days.
Although the unit left in October for Iraq, they were moved after only a week to Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan.
"They had to pack up all their equipment, personal gear and the A-10s and relocate to a different base in Afghanistan due to unplanned change in mission requirement," DeCoster said.
During their tour they flew more than 500 missions including close air support, counter insurgency attacks and threat deterrence.
"The show of force was a critical part of what they did," DeCoster said. "An A-10 can be pretty intimidating."
The deployment was the first for the 110th since 2004.
Source: http://www.battlecreekenquirer.com/apps ... /801160329" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Will probably getting confirmation very soon by a friend of mine which is situated in Afghanistan for the time beeing..
Re: [Touchdown-News] ] Re: ] Re: Airspace Reservations 05th January 2008
Datum: Thu, 10 Jan 2008 21:40:55 +0100 [10-01-08 21:40 CET]
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Onderwerp: {Disarmed} Re: [Touchdown-News] ] Re: ] Re: Airspace Reservations 05th January 2008
Hi,
Send the (known) serials before.
Callsigns were Mazda11-16 and 21-24 on friday.
Oscar
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Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2008 8:08 PM
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Hi Maurizio,
We were at Spangdahlem during their depart last Friday unfortunately were just to late to read of the first 5 aircraft.........Maybe they were spotted elsewhere the ten guys left under callsign
Mazda 1-10..
Regards,
Maurits
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From: Maurizio
Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2008 16:42:02 +0100
The following crossed Italian skyes last week:
81-0945 on Jan 03
82-0649, 81-0992, 81-0980, 81-0978, 81-0963 on Jan 04
81-0984 on Jan 05
81-0954 on Jan 07
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Oggetto: [MSF] Re: ] Re: Airspace Reservations 05th January 2008
B-1B confirmed with destination LEMO
one req:
some A-10s has been reported at LICZ some days ago , may be 81FS inbound
east...any info about this Coronet will be welcome.
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Subject: Re: [Touchdown-News] Re: Airspace Reservations 05th January 2008
The first reservation was a northern track, anything going to LEMO on this
track would a hundred of miles out...
I had an inkling this was for Spang based F-16s which were in NE USA at the
time, i assume waiting to come home. MIMKU is an Oceanic Gate entry into
Scotland.
The second ALTRV was i believe for B-1Bs.
They have for the past five flights (rotation) been using this route with
the KC-135s using the DINIM to TAKAS route on the way home rather than the
more southern Atlantic track off the coast of Santiago in Spain.
B-1Bs should have used the callsign RAMA.
Neither of the ALTRV's came about and were cancelled. Only to be revived
again for the next two days and again cancelled for the second and third
time. Since then, neither have been reactivated.
Rich C
SW England
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