Syerston, Waddington, Coningsby, Cranwell 16/03/23

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Syerston at 09.30

ZE630 Grob Viking
ZE685 Grob Viking
G-DJMC

Waddington

arrived at 10.00 just in time to see the morning departures- 4 x F-16s, 4 x Mirage 2000s and 4 x F-18s.

Belgian Air Component

FA-102 F-16 departed
FA-127 F-16 departed
FA-134 F-16 departed
FA-136 F-16 departed 
(FA-77  F-16 and 
FA-116 F-16 also present but not looked for as not needed)

Indian Air Force

KF-112 Mirage 2000 departed
KF-118 Mirage 2000
KT-208 Mirage 2000 departed
KT-211 Mirage 2000 departed 
KT-213 Mirage 2000 departed 


Finnish Air Force

HN-406 F/A-18 departed
HN-411 F/A-18 departed
HN-422 F/A-18 departed
HN-424 F/A-18
HN-438 F/A-18
HN-448 F/A-18 departed

ZZ664 RC-135 Airseeker departed

ZH101
ZH102
ZH105
ZH107 Sentries all in a sad stripped down state 

Sentinel- N690BD ?

G-LNCC AW.169 Air Ambulance

then off to Coningsby 

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Coningsby to see the Saudis…

316 FGR.4
1019 FGR.4
1020 T.3
1022 FGR.4
8018 FGR.4
8019 - FGR.4

24 RAF Typhoons read off. Sadly only one needed (ZK347) so still need 13 British Typhoons.

ZJ913
ZJ916
ZJ929
ZJ937
ZJ942

ZK306
ZK318
ZK321
ZK335
ZK342
ZK347
ZK360
ZK364
ZK366
ZK368
ZK375
ZK379
ZK381
ZK424
ZK431
ZK432
ZK433
ZK436
ZK437

XR753 Lightning
XS897 Lightning (wears “XP765”)

KP220 DC-3 (G-ANAF)
Spitfire

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Then onto Cranwell. FR24 told me that ZM322 had landed here and this was the Prefect that I was after.
Sure enough, it was one of three Prefects on the flight line and the last one of the fleet that I needed.

I don’t need any of the Phenoms but read off the 3 that were outside.
The only Tutor I need is at Benson, so I didn’t bother looking at these. My mate read off 8 Tutors here- I’ll add them if I find them out from him.

Cranwell

ZM303 Grob Prefect
ZM320 Grob Prefect
ZM322 Grob Prefect
ZM333 Phenom
ZM335 Phenom
ZM337 Phenom

I then drove past Barkston Heath and there were 8 or 9 Prefects on the apron, but having just seen my last one I didn’t bother stopping! Again, my mate made a full log in the morning- I will add them if I find them out.

[graham]

Great logs Phil, many thanks. N690BD is correct, previously registered as ZJ690 until 15/7/22 and listed as "withdrawn from use at Waddington".

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Mar 17, 2023 7:21:48 GMT graham said:

Great logs Phil, many thanks. N690BD is correct, previously registered as ZJ690 until 15/7/22 and listed as "withdrawn from use at Waddington".

Thanks Graham.
N690BD was guessed as the only Sentinel left on the eurodemobbed website.
I read it off as N690BD there last July so sadly not needed as such.
Cheers 

[billsamuels]

Hi Phil,

Was a good day for me too. 

I framed 2 Belgium’s, all 5 Indian’s, 5 Finnish plus the chopper and I scraped the Sentinel at Waddington.

Framed all 6 Saudi’s plus 6 RAF Typhoon’s at Coningsby.

Framed 2 Tutor’s and 2 Prefect’s at Cranwell.

Absolutely nothing at Barkston Heath (ZM300/306/311/313/314/316/317/318)

At Luton I framed; N805CC Falcon 7X and N78KN Gulf 500.

At Northolt I didn’t need either of the FAF PC-21’s, but Mark made the RCAF Herc.

So all in all, a pretty good day for me….

Good to see you.

Bill

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I’d seen 5 of the Saudi Typhoons at Warton with British serials.
But needed all 6 of them as Saudi!

Didn’t make it to Northolt as was getting late unfortunately!