100 years of USNavy - NAS North Island area 12 Feb.

[hawk666]

Re-checking the excellent flypast listing posted earlier, there are in fact a few helos missing. After the pair of Ospreys there were 4 x UH-1's and 4 x AH-1's ( not 2 of each ) plus there were 12 x ch-46's ( not 10 ). Any ideas ?

[Wayne Groves]

There were ten CH-46 in the flypast. YT-00, 06, 13, 15; PF-10, 12, 13, 14 followed a little later by ML-403 & 407 which did a rescue demonstration over the bay.

I think that some of the UH-1s and AH-1s which flew through had already taken part in the flypast. I certainly read off UH-1Y 168003 & AH-1W & 165276/VT-21 twice.

[orange]

Re-checking the excellent flypast listing posted earlier, there are in fact a few helos missing. After the pair of Ospreys there were 4 x UH-1's and 4 x AH-1's ( not 2 of each ) plus there were 12 x ch-46's ( not 10 ). Any ideas ?

The four Hueys/Cobras in the top part of the list returned to do a fly through with four others, forgot to mention that. So all eight numbers are in the list.

There were only ten Phrogs AFAIK, eight that flew through and two that peeled off for a rescue demo.

[paddyw56]

I didn't log USCG HH-60J 6033 in the main flypast and assumed it was displaying low over the water, but 6032 flew over the airfield just before the main flypast and a few minutes after. Can you confirm 6033 flew?

[elenten]

Hi,

Hereby some logs from some hangars at North Island, as it is not complete I would appreciate any inputs. Due to sometimes somewhat 'critical' situations I did not log most of the codes and didn't look up all the types etc yet (straight from the logbook)

Hangar 306:
166350 MH-60R
166528 MH-60R
165743
165760

Hangar 308:
165113
166348
166527
165776

Hangar 310:
166315 MH-60 HSC-21
166522 MH-60
166332 / VR-32 MH-60

Hangar 460:
162158 C-2
164112
165815
164353 E-2
165814
162170
162167

In the main hangar (close to the parking) of HSM77 (plus other squadrons)
I did note:
166525
I saw about 4 more but got somewhat noticed so had to leave

/Erik


Hangar 467:
166330
164909/AC-202 F-18
164250/AD-307 F-18

Hangar 378 (coronado side:
162478 CH-53E
'X-173' CH-53E
161384 CH-53E
1634.. F-18
164652
164739
163497 RB94

Hangar 378 airfield side:
RB89 F-18
RB97 F-18
RB99 F-18

[orange]

Can you confirm 6033 flew?

Yes, but I made a mistake, it isn't a HH-60J. It reads 'MH-60T' on the tail.

Nobody read the 11 MH-60S behind the hangar??

[paddyw56]

I bow to better eyesight and acknowledge that the MH-60 I read off before and after the display was indeed 6033.

[orange]

I bow to better eyesight and acknowledge that the MH-60 I read off before and after the display was indeed 6033.

Please note that I saw 6033 take off from the CG station, fly towards the swimmer, pull him out of the water, turn in front of me and fly straight back to the airport. It was in the air for five minutes tops.

So you might have seen 6032 in the air before and after the flypast.....

[orange]

I can't find a record for both 167279 and 167877, so the guard might have made a mistake

167279 should be be 167879 as the guards writing could dubius


on our photos from the dockside of stennic we can count 6 SH-60 in the hangar:
4 by the front elevator (with 03)

by the center elevator
1 in front of the hawk eye
1 the the right with rotor folded out

Do any one have photos from the hangar ?

regards Peter

The one next to the E-2C was 166569/NG-702. The one with the folded out rotor in front of the Hawkeye was an MH-60S; 167871/NG-1.

[elenten]

this is what I noted myself while strolling through this set of MH-60S (just be there very very early..)

165745 SA-00 MH-60S
166292 SA-04 MH-60S
166307 SA-22 MH-60S
166309 SA-18 MH-60S
166340 SA-10 MH-60S
166369 SA-17 MH-60S
165769 SA-15 MH-60S
SA-03 MH-60S
167877 SA-0. MH-60S
167879 MH-60S
165768 MH-60S

If people could help me with the buno of SA-03 I would greatly appreciate it.

[orange]

So the 'MH-60S behind the hangar situation' is now as follows:

165745/SA-00
165768/SA-06
165769/SA-15
166291/SA-03
166292/SA-04
166307/SA-22
166309/SA-18
166340/SA-10
166369/SA-17
167877/SA-0x
167879/SA-xx

Note: tie up between 166291 and SA-03 not confirmed (yet), although both modex and bu.no were read seperately by different people.

[elenten]

hereby a list from the active ramps on the day before the show, they were still flying and doing normal missions on Friday. There were more but I think I got about 70-80%:

165761 SA-05 MH-60S HSC-3
165756 SA-01 MH-60S
165259 RA-1 HH-60H HS-10
..-26 HS-10
163784 RA-4 HS-10
164076 RA-15 SH-60F HS-10
165343 SA-16 MH-60S HSC-3
163288 RA-12 SH-60F
166317 SA-09 MH-60S HSC-3
166313 SA-08 MH-60S HSC-3
164091 RA-11 SH-60F HSC-10
616 HS-10 special color
164620 RA-13 SH-60F HS-10
166575 NG-710 MH-60R
167873 SA-19 MH-60S
166560 TS-422 MH-60R HSM-41
166561 400 MH-60R HSM-41 special color
…553 MH-60R
166576 NG-711 MH-60R
413
52
166553 TS-420 MH-60R HSM-41
166584 TS-423 MH-60R HSM-41
166535 TS-415 MH-60R
162991 TZ-53 SH-60F
166534 TS-414 MH-60R HSM-41
166533 TS-413 MH-60R

162991 TZ-53 SF-60B
162327 TZ-55 SF-60B
166560 TS-.. MH-60R
166321 WC-44 MH-60 HSC-23
167867
VR-25 HSC-21
167867
165765 WC-45 MH-60S

[orange]

166560 TS-.. MH-60R

TS-422

[elenten]

I think there is a mistake in the flyby serial list:
I got photo proof that 162936 should be:

162938 RM-06 EA-6B VMAQT-4

[orange]

I think there is a mistake in the flyby serial list:
I got photo proof that 162936 should be:

162938 RM-06 EA-6B VMAQT-4

Yes, that is correct: my bad.