Mildenhall 5th August

[seaharrierfa2]

Having missed all the action by stopping at Stansted with four departing visitors (3 KC-135 and a C-17) I have never seen it so empty of tankers. I was hoping for my last MC-130 as they are meant to be night flying this week but clearly they are detached somewhere. I thought the Souda deployment had ended. never mind. My last LN F-15D seems to have diverted in so that was nice.

Bob

05/08/2020 Mildenhall 09-6207 Lockheed C-130 Hercules 5656 United States Air Force 352nd SOW / 67th SOS

05/08/2020 Mildenhall 11-0060 Bell/Boeing V-22 Osprey D1040 United States Air Force 352nd SOW / 7th SOS one circuit c/s Knife79

05/08/2020 Mildenhall 11-5731 Lockheed C-130 Hercules 5731 United States Air Force 352nd SOW / 67th SOS MC-130J

05/08/2020 Mildenhall 11-5737 Lockheed C-130 Hercules 5737 United States Air Force 352nd SOW / 67th SOS MC-130J

05/08/2020 Mildenhall 12-0063 Bell/Boeing V-22 Osprey D1044 United States Air Force 352nd SOW / 7th SOS CV-22B

05/08/2020 Mildenhall 12-0064 Bell/Boeing V-22 Osprey D1045 United States Air Force 352nd SOW / 7th SOS CV-22B

05/08/2020 Mildenhall 13-5778 Lockheed C-130 Hercules 5778 United States Air Force 352nd SOW / 67th SOS MC-130J

05/08/2020 Mildenhall 13-5786 Lockheed C-130 Hercules 5786 United States Air Force 352nd SOW / 67th SOS MC-130J

05/08/2020 Mildenhall 57-1440 Boeing C-135 17511 United States Air Force 100th ARW / 351st ARS KC-135R

05/08/2020 Mildenhall 57-1493 Boeing C-135 17564 United States Air Force 100th ARW / 351st ARS KC-135R

05/08/2020 Mildenhall 58-0036 Boeing C-135 17781 United States Air Force 100th ARW / 351st ARS KC-135R

05/08/2020 Mildenhall 60-0355 Boeing C-135 18130 United States Air Force 100th ARW / 351st ARS KC-135R

05/08/2020 Mildenhall 62-3551 Boeing C-135 18534 United States Air Force 100th ARW / 351st ARS KC-135R

05/08/2020 Mildenhall 84-0046 McDonnell Douglas F-15 Eagle D54 United States Air Force 48th FW / 493rd FS LN

[rh226]

Hi Bob,

The F-15 was in for arrestor cable certification - a (twice?) yearly occurrence.

I can only assume that your needed MC-130 was 08-6205 and it was out for about 6 hours, first doing circuits and then over East Anglia. No MC-130s are detached at the moment (12-5760 is on rework in the US).

A lot of tankers were out on missions that day.

Bob

[seaharrierfa2]

Bob, that's the one, looks like it went for a day trip to Germany on Planefinder. Next time..... Bob