Nevada, thunderstorms, thick mud, low cloud, no sunshine, cool - you must be joking? - no it really was like that and the visit was almost called off. However the gods relented slightly during the day and a window of opportunity came by and this is what was seen.
CAG CVW 17 ?????? AA-100 FA-18F VFA-22 Fighting Redcocks ?????? AA-101 FA-18F VFA-22 Fighting Redcocks 166806 AA-102 FA-18F VFA-22 Fighting Redcocks 166810 AA-103 FA-18F VFA-22 Fighting Redcocks 166811 AA-104 FA-18F VFA-22 Fighting Redcocks 166800 AA-105 FA-18F VFA-22 Fighting Redcocks ?????? AA-106 FA-18F VFA-22 Fighting Redcocks 166802 AA-107 FA-18F VFA-22 Fighting Redcocks 166803 AA-110 FA-18F VFA-22 Fighting Redcocks 166804 AA-111 FA-18F VFA-22 Fighting Redcocks 166830 AA-200 FA-18E VFA-81 Sunliners Spcl 166831 AA-201 FA-18E VFA-81 Sunliners 166832 AA-202 FA-18E VFA-81 Sunliners ?????? AA-203 FA-18E VFA-81 Sunliners 166834 AA-204 FA-18E VFA-81 Sunliners 166835 AA-205 FA-18E VFA-81 Sunliners 166836 AA-206 FA-18E VFA-81 Sunliners ?????? AA-207 FA-18E VFA-81 Sunliners 166839 AA-211 FA-18E VFA-81 Sunliners 166840 AA-212 FA-18E VFA-81 Sunliners 156841 AA-213 FA-18E VFA-81 Sunliners 164658 AA-300 FA-18C VFA-113 Stingers Hi-Viz 164641 AA-301 FA-18C VFA-113 Stingers 164220 AA-302 FA-18C VFA-113 Stingers 164640 AA-304 FA-18C VFA-113 Stingers ?????? AA-305 FA-18C VFA-113 Stingers 164686 AA-306 FA-18C VFA-113 Stingers 164242 AA-307 FA-18C VFA-113 Stingers 164633 AA-310 FA-18C VFA-113 Stingers 164682 AA-311 FA-18C VFA-113 Stingers 164266 AA-400 FA-18C VFA-25 Fist of the Fleet Spcl 164223 AA-401 FA-18C VFA-25 Fist of the Fleet 164635 AA-403 FA-18C VFA-25 Fist of the Fleet ?????? AA-404 FA-18C VFA-25 Fist of the Fleet 163427 AA-405 FA-18C VFA-25 Fist of the Fleet ?????? AA-407 FA-18C VFA-25 Fist of the Fleet 164638 AA-412 FA-18C VFA-25 Fist of the Fleet 164205 AA-413 FA-18C VFA-25 Fist of the Fleet 164401 AA501 EA-6B VAQ-? 160788 AA502 EA-6B VAQ-? 163522 AA503 EA-6B VAQ-? 162938 AA-504 EA-6B VAQ-? ?????? AA600 E-2C VAW-125 Tiger Tails 164352 AA602 E-2C VAW-125 Tiger Tails 164353 AA603 E-2C VAW-125 Tiger Tails ?????? AA- SH-60? ?????? AA- SH-60? ?????? AA- SH-60? ?????? AA- SH-60? Lying at the rear of the apron,only remains of 741568 F-5E Ex VFC-13 NSAWC Apron 165805 12 FA-18F NSAWC Marines 165795 13 FA-18E NSAWC 165801 14 FA-18F NSAWC 165807 15 FA-18F NSAWC 165797 16 FA-18F NSAWC 163494 21 FA-18C NSAWC 163458 23 FA-18C NSAWC blue ?????? 24 FA-18C NSAWC ?????? 25 FA-18C NSAWC 163503 26 FA-18C NSAWC 163761 27 FA-18C NSAWC 163703 32 FA-18C NSAWC 163746 33 FA-18C NSAWC 163456 35 FA-18C NSAWC ?????? 36 FA-18C NSAWC 162837 37 FA-18A NSAWC 163431 40 FA-18C NSAWC 161937 47 FA-18A NSAWC 900942 50 F-16A NSAWC blue 900943 51 F-16A NSAWC 920408 52 F-16A NSAWC grey 900944 53 F-16A NSAWC Marines brown 900945 54 F-16A NSAWC grey 900947 56 F-16A USNFWS Marines grey 920404 57 F-16A NSAWC grey 920409 60 F-16A NSAWC 920410 61 F-16A NSAWC Marines 920459 05 F-16B NSAWC 920460 06 F-16B NSAWC brown 920461 07 F-16B NSAWC blue 761562 00 F-5N VFC-13 Saints brown / green 761534 01 F-5N VFC-13 Saints grey ?????? 02 F-5N VFC-13 Saints ?????? 03 F-5N VFC-13 Saints 761551 04 F-5N VFC-13 Saints grey 761544 05 F-5N VFC-13 Saints blue 761528 06 F-5N VFC-13 Saints grey 761545 07 F-5N VFC-13 Saints brown 761537 11 F-5N VFC-13 Saints 761552 13 F-5N VFC-13 Saints 761580 20 F-5N VFC-13 Saints black 167826 70 MH-60S NSAWC 167838 71 MH-60S NSAWC brown ?????? 72 MH-60S NSAWC 166366 73 MH-60S NSAWC 164882 VK-16 FA-18D VMFA(AW)-121 (Loan ?) 163696 ??? E-2C NSAWC (Loan ?) 164492 600 E-2C NSAWC ?????? 7H-20 SH-60F Fallon SAR Dumped in middle Airfield 160571 - / 721 S-3A Fire Training Air Power Park 161708 NK-300 FA-18A VFA-22 155025 NF-401 A-4F VA-94 155627 NE-500 A-6E VA-145 156734 NL-300 A-7C VA-22 159496 AB-600 E-2C VAW-123 151510 NF-100 F-4N VF-161 145449 AF-106 F-8L 159626 AC-100 F-14A VF-32 163576 F-16N NSAWC Mkd 29371 44 F-86F FAGU 3964 MiG-21bis Ex Hungary (20+23) 353 Red MiG-23-23ML Ex German AF. 15 Black MiG-29 Ex Moldova 0614 Mig-15 Ex Poland 1319 MiG-17 Ex Poland Main Gate 142100 AF-00 A-4B VFC-13 154420 00 A-7B 132261 NK-500 A-1E VA-145 60-3593 7H-593 UH-1B Near PA Office. 156638 AC-601 RA-5C RVAH-12The serials were all read off or from photos, except for some in the Air Power Park (mostly the ex E European) and the a/c on the Gate.
Couldn't see any signs of dumped F-4's or F-5's, but there again we didn't look that hard.
Any corrections / additions would be very welcome.
Having just previewed this it doesn't come out as well, format wise, as typed in, but I hope you can still make sense of it?
John.