August visitors

Location : East Yorkshire Spotter Watch Member : No

Here's what I saw this week (as usual any additions & amendments would be appreciated)

Monday 3rd. 100 squ Hawks XX202/CI, XX222/CF, XX289/C_, plus a C130K on overshoot about 2:45pm
Wednesday 5th, 4 French Alphajets arrived on exchange (as noted elsewhere), with support CASA 235 114/62-IJ. XX169 Hawk FRADU (still with 19squ badge on fin), ZA704/AM Chinook, C130J ZH888 performed several overshooots early afternoon, and Puma ZA939 arrived late for a night stop.
Thursday 6th. ZF289 Tucano
Friday 7th. XX255/CL and XX331/CP 100 squ Hawks.

Subject: Re: August visitors 2009-08-07, 16:20

Hiya,
The C-130 on Monday was XV 301, there was a 3 Sqn Typhoon flying through on Tueday lunctime. A Tornado GR4 'Marham 82' on Thursday. Friday saw ZD 378 24A COT 12 on o/s this morning, then two Typhoons at 1430, ID one as QO-J and the other with the Falklands Detachment badge on the tail carried out a couple of circuits around 1440hrs

cheers
Dick

Location : East Yorkshire Spotter Watch Member : No

Thanks Dick
just goes to show how easy it is to miss things !

Subject: Re: August visitors 2009-08-08, 03:13

yep and I sure did ooops!!!!!! the Typhoons were ZJ 949 & 950, the latter appears to have been painted up this week for the upcoming detachment to the Falklands and was first noted on the 6th August. 949 had the code on the tail but either no badge or badge removed.

Location : East Yorkshire Spotter Watch Member : No

here we go again for this week....

Tuesday 11th. XW237 Puma late afternoon.
Wednesday 12th. the Alphjet detachment departed and Casa235 071/62-IE took the support equipment. Also in that day were Tucanos ZF142 & ZF341 (night stop in the maintenance hangar), RAFCAM Hawk XX162 and Squirrel ZJ238.
Thursday 13th. Chinook ZD575/DC (also 14th) and there was a Belgian Falcon20 in the circuit mid-afternoon
Friday 14th. ZH537 BN-2T

I'm sure there's quite a bit more to add !

Subject: Re: August visitors 2009-08-14, 16:36

Not too much, ZG 500 Harrier carried out o/s on Monday and that was about it, I thought the Squirrel was 278 but didn't have the bins with me so I stand corrected, fingers crossed for a busier week next week.

regards
Dick

Location : East Yorkshire Spotter Watch Member : No

Thanks again Dick.
There was a Falcon 20 in on Monday as well, I believe.

Subject: Re: August visitors 2009-08-15, 07:10

Hi All,

Islander ZH537 "Ascot 7694" visited on Friday 14th :-)

Steve

Location : East Yorkshire Spotter Watch Member : No

As for this week, I arrived just after C-130E 64-14859 was seen doing circuits on Monday 17th !
Also in that day were 100 squ Hawk XX222/CI and night-stopping Tucanos ZF140 and ZF244

Tuesday 18th 32squ HS.125 (I'm showing my age !) ZD625 popped in morning and afternoon. Tucanos ZF269/MP-O and ZF347 night-stopped
Wednesday 19th XX222/CI and Xx329/CJ came in from 100squ while Chinook ZD575/DC fuel stopped in lashing rain late afternoon

That's about it from me for this month - missing the families day unfortunately (again !)