Rarest Aircraft seen whilst spotting.

Location : n.west Spotter Watch Member : no

I will start with Warton

TSR2 first MRCA XX946 Jaguar International

AN 12 Indian Airforce AN 2 AN22 Cock AN124 Interestingly a AN 124 is due in at Warton .2.2.09 to collect. IAF Sea Harrier frame/Fuselage.

Iranian Air Force IL76 bringing IAF SeaHarrier An Indian AF Sea Harrier

Shackleton, Hastings, Belfast, Argosy.

F111 EF111 F4s F104s C5 Galaxy delivering classified cargo Guppy, Super Guppy.

VFW 614 only 3 in existence at the time Hansa jet

majority of trials aircraft from Bedford Farnborough Boscombe Down.

Location : Chelmsford

Italian AF Expeditor at Deci in 1979.

Admin Location : Birmingham B17

If i go back a long way.I would look at it this way

1.A Venezualan Canberra in storage at BAE Bracebrige Heath in 1979,whist doing my work experience.

2.A OV-1D at Waddington mid 70's

3 A C-130B seen very low level Bunyan near Kayseri Turkey 1985.This said aircraft was natural metal scheme from 22 Filo and was in formation with 2 others.An awesome site.But no camera.

Location : Squire of the Gate

60163tornado wrote:: I will start with Warton

Iranian Air Force IL76 bringing IAF SeaHarrier

Wasn't it a Indian AF IL76 :?:

Subject: Rarest aircraft whilst spotting 2009-01-04, 13:56

Malaysian A4 Skyhawk's at Mildenhall..transitting in the early 1980s.

Subject: Re: Rarest Aircraft seen whilst spotting. 2009-01-04, 14:03

lowlevel wrote:: Malaysian A4 Skyhawk's at Mildenhall..transitting in the early 1980s.

How about 2 x Bolivian AF T-29's at the 'hall in 1972 !!!!

Mike

Location : n.west Spotter Watch Member : no

Jenky wrote:

60163tornado wrote:: I will start with Warton

Iranian Air Force IL76 bringing IAF SeaHarrier

Wasn't it a Indian AF IL76 :?:

My video show it to be a green and white Iraniun IL76 I didnt collect reg nos
but I still have the video/DVD.

Location : N E Jockistan Spotter Watch Member : No

Indian Navy Constellation @ Lossie in mid 1970s. (I think April 1975)

Subject: Re: Rarest Aircraft seen whilst spotting. 2009-01-05, 13:44

Greek air force dc-3 around 78 in corfu just skipping over the trees whilst waking down to the beech it was that low nailed the reg of the tail after a short jog to get a side on view 8) the couple i was with where studden they thought i was mad :evil:
also a few f4 low level over the sea awesome site :D

Location : N E Jockistan Spotter Watch Member : No

There were some great delivery routings through Lossie in the seventies, I remember F-5s of various nationalities (Moroccan springs to mind) plus others.

Danish Catalina, Canadian Arguses at Kinloss in mid-seventies.

Indian AF B-24 Liberator at RAT Greenham Common on delivery to RAF Museum in mid-seventies.

Ka25 Hormones seen on deck of the Soviet Helicopter Cruiser Moskva seen from Nimrod on overfly.

Location : United Kingdom Spotter Watch Member : No

US Air Force VC-135 26000 and Moroccan Government B.707 at Edinburgh same Day I think it was Late 80s/ Early 90s. Some sight.

Subject: Re: Rarest Aircraft seen whilst spotting. 2009-01-06, 02:11

French Navy F8 x 2 buzzed my campsite in France one summers morning in 1993!!

Location : Grimsby NE Lincs.

A US Navy NKC135A and a pair of US Navy ERA3B Skywarriors at Coningsby in the mid 80s, on a Sunday.

A Lightning F3 flying with no bellytank at Binbrook.

A lightning F6 Flying in yellow primer paint at Binbrook.

A USAF B57 Canberra Vermont ANG at Binbrook.

Subject: Re: Rarest Aircraft seen whilst spotting. 2009-01-06, 14:30

remember seeing the space shuttle piggy backing the 747 over Manchester in 83!

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8 Peruvian AF An-26's (on delivery) with a Peruvian AF C130 at Prestwick in 1978.

Mike

Subject: Re: Rarest Aircraft seen whilst spotting. 2009-01-06, 15:14

Trembler1 wrote:: remember seeing the space shuttle piggy backing the 747 over Manchester in 83!

I remember seeing that as well, twice the same day once when getting ready for school then again later on when at school :D

Subject: Re: Rarest Aircraft seen whilst spotting. 2009-01-06, 15:22

40612 wrote:: 8 Peruvian AF An-26's (on delivery) with a Peruvian AF C130 at Prestwick in 1977.

Mike :bounce:

Thats just showing off lol!

Wish i had the chance to see some of the planes you guys have seen over the years, i was born to late.

Would have loved to have seen the usafe cold war era stuff, as well as all the raf planes that have long gone out of service Crying

Location : Left seat. Spotter Watch Member : yes

Indian AF AN12 going into Warton sometime in the mid-80's.

2x CF-104's also going into Warton.

Ital.AF C-130 landing at ..... Warton.

A USAF C-135(?) from an USAF Test Wing landing at ... Warton.

A Libyan AF C-130 very,very low over the sea, approx. 20 miles SW of Malaga.

A few Argentinian, Indian, Equadorean & Venezuelan AF Canberra bombers parked next to the road at BAe Salmesbury.

A modified P-3 Orion with an AWACS-style roof-mounted radome on the military ramp at Lima, Peru.

A few Sukhoi's & EE Canberra bombers at Pisco AB, Peru/Chilean border.

Ex-Bulgarian & East German AF SU25's (still with national flags on tails) flying out of Sana, Yemen.

Phillipines AF C-130 on ramp at Dubai.

USAF C-130 at Liverpool. Arrived from US' turned around, re-fuelled & returned to US' within an hour.

A pair of RuAF T-160 BlackJacks over the Caribbean.

A RuAF T-95 on the ground in Cabinda, Angola.

A pair of B1's parked up at the maintenance area at NY JFK airport.

I R I A F F-14's & Su24's Mehrabad Airport, Tehran.

An RAF VC-10 & 2x Harrier GR3's at Patrick AFB, Florida.

And lots of other stuff from my 'office window' over the years.

:)

Location : N E Jockistan Spotter Watch Member : No

madhatters 492 wrote:: Would have loved to have seen the usafe cold war era stuff, as well as all the raf planes that have long gone out of service

Now you're talking - being a bit of an old fart myself, I do remember some rather nice goodies both British and otherwise. Although a Jock, I spent my childhood between Moray (Lossie/Kinloss) and Oxfordshire, fairly close to Abingdon, Benson, Brize Norton and Upper Heyford.

I remember when Brize was USAF - B47s, B-52s on TDY, KC-97s, C-133s, C-124s etc.; Upper Heyford - RF-101s, F-100s, HH-43s, C-54s, C-118s, T-29s, C-47s etc.; Benson/Abingdon - Argosy, Hastings, Beverly, Lots of Varsitys from Gaydon.

I was at the Fifty Years of the RAF display at Abingdon in 1968, and various Heyford Open Houses in the sixties.

Lossiemouth and Kinloss were also pretty good for old stuff. Kinloss was then a Shack base with visiting Argus, P-2, early P-3, Catalina and other NATO maritime types. Lossie was still RN, based/visiting FAA aircraft included Hunter, Buccaneer, Sea Venom, Vampire, Sea Price, Piston Whirlwind, Sea Vixen, Gannet, and loads of exotic visitors.

I better go to bed before I get too carried away.

Location : uk Spotter Watch Member : no

3 Spanish Air force mirage F1s at malaga airport with a Chinook.
and in the late 70s, a then royal Iranian air force kc707 which had been impounded at Manchester airport.

Subject: Re: Rarest Aircraft seen whilst spotting. 2009-01-07, 04:24

madhatters 492 wrote:

40612 wrote:: 8 Peruvian AF An-26's (on delivery) with a Peruvian AF C130 at Prestwick in 1977.

Mike :bounce:

Thats just showing off lol!

Wish i had the chance to see some of the planes you guys have seen over the years, i was born to late.

Would have loved to have seen the usafe cold war era stuff, as well as all the raf planes that have long gone out of service Crying

3 Kuwait AF A-4 Skyhawks at Prestwick 2 days later ! (It was 1978,BTW)

Location : n.west Spotter Watch Member : no

I once saw a B2 at Warton not the one manufactured by Northrop. I believe its hangared at Brough at the moment.

I have a question for the older members of the forum in the 1970s a french aircraft
which was twin engined with a huge wingspan was stationed at Blackpool for a couple of weeks but also visited Warton it had a double barrelled name I cannot remember the first name but the second word was similar to dubloise anybody got any ideas?. (HD 34 Hurel Dubois)

Prior to 1964 I lived in Shropshire about a mile from Sleap which was active with Avro Ansons and the occasional Wx flight which were either Lincolns or Moskitos.

My main base was RAF Shawbury around the perimeter were between 6 or 8 Blackburn Beverleys which were in open storage. The daily flying consisted of vampires venoms and varsity vallettas and occasionally Hastings pembrokes.

Location : West Mercia Spotter Watch Member : No

I think my rarest would have to be the An225 when it visited East Midlands in 2007!

Location : n.west Spotter Watch Member : no

two more to add to the list The Flying Flea at Cumbria Museum, and The Wren.

Anybody recall the occasion when a Boeing 707 on hire to a Test Pilots School not

ETPS came to Warton and did a number of approaches I think it was called Eagle or

something similar.

One August Bank Holiday afternoon a B52 did some approaches on 08.

Of course in the old days 1970s F111s regularly flew into Warton with bird strikes

and always parked at the gun butts.

Subject: Re: Rarest Aircraft seen whilst spotting. 2009-01-08, 14:57

andyxh558 wrote:: and in the late 70s, a then royal Iranian air force kc707 which had been impounded at Manchester airport.

:D ar yes forgot about them from around 72 when i started spotting to the late think around 6 made visit to Manchester :D will have to get the books out :x Roll Eyes