Military Aviation Photography and Spotting
One of the last few Grumman EA-6B Prowler was retired by the United States Marine Corps on Mar 2019. VMAQ-2 Death Jester base out of MCAS Cherry Point flew the last of these Electronic Jamming Aircraft. Mar 12, 2019 one of the EA-6B buNo. 162228 flew into Dallas Love field and she will be on Read More …
Feb 2019 Aviation Report. We have F-35A, F/A-18, F-16, C2 and lots of C130 and T38s. Read More …
I would say this is the best viewing deck for our Electronic Jamming Squadrons base out of NAS Whidbey Island, WA. Couple days a week this outlying field is being use by our Navy VAQ Squadrons training on their Carrier operations. The runway orientate as 14 and 32. When I was visiting this field aircraft Read More …
January have pass for 2019 and we are looking forward for Spring time here in DFW area. Lockheed Martin and our local units have been flying quite actively lately. Also, we get to catch some unique transient traffic here at NAS Ft worth JRB ( Joint Reserve Base) ( KNFW) and KAFW ( Ft worth Read More …
NASA’s fighters and supporting Aircrafts Read More …
Chengdu Aircraft spotting guide Read More …
VAQ-209 E/A-18G growlers encounter in Ellington Field TX. Read More …
First Drill weekend 2019 for Spads 301st FW in KNFW Read More …
A great year indeed for everyone here in Airwingspotter . 2018 started with a bang with VMFT-401 Snipers from MCAS Yuma visiting KAFW. On the same following week we got another visit from Snipers bringing in different jets. 2018 also started with a visit to NAS Fallon and Nellis AFB covering Red Flag 18-1. We Read More …
“Winter is Coming” and in no time Winter Solstice came and went and we got some beautiful clear sky and sun and since we are in Texas, we got 38 mph gust of wind. We decided to checkout Ft worth Alliance Airport in hope of catching some transient traffic especially Navy Superhornets which frequent this Read More …
2018 marked a very wet Fall season with lots of rain. This have greatly affected 2 of our largest Airshow here in Texas namely Ft Worth Alliance and Wings over Houston which is held annually in October. The ceiling was so low that Wing Over Houston have to cancel a lot of their flights on Read More …
301st FW drill weekend December 2018. Lockheed Martin F-35B Lightning 1-1 VSTOL and VMFA-314 F/A-18 Read More …
Japanese F-4EJ Phantom program in 2018. Read More …
NAS Ft worth ( KNFW ) on Dec 11th 2018 It was moody and cloudy but we got an interesting visitor callsign Spear 47 , Aircraft type AC-130U 4th Special Operations Squadron. We could see him coming into KNFW and was requesting for multiple low approaches. She finally landed on runway 18 and stayed for Read More …
2018 marked a very wet Fall and we have many rainy days in the October month. Fortunately we have one good day for the airshow and on this Sunday we have variable clouds and eventually open up to be a very nice day for airshow. Alliance was fortunate to get 2 jet demonstration team including Read More …
Zhuhai International Airshow (珠海航展) is held once every 2 years in the southern province of Guangdong, China. The 6 day airshow started on Nov 5th to 11th hosting 5 days of trade show and the last 2 days were open to public. They host over 140 aircraft’s mostly of Chinese origin. Read More …
Airborne Tactical Advantage Company (ATAC) was founded in1994 by Jeffery Parker and Larry Payne – both USAF Academy alumni. With current US military operational funding problems, aging legacy aircraft, and severe pilot shortages, both the United States Navy (USN) and the United States Air Force (USAF) are actively hiring private contractors to augment and supplement Read More …
Spotting Report 10/4/2018 We were fortunate to get head-sup on some visiting F-16 and this time we get the 21st Fighter Squadron ( FS ) ” Gamblers ” This is a training unit based out in Luke AFB, AZ from the Republic of China Airforce flying the very unique F-16A Blk 20. These jets will Read More …
Fall of 2018 comes real quick and this year we get hit with quite a bit of rain in this September month of 2018. We get mostly Southerly winds during this time of the year and with the moisture and clouds. Aviation spotting for NAS Ft worth JRB ( KNFW) and Ft worth Alliance Airport Read More …
Aug 16 , 2018 This special day would go down as ” Downunder day” since we get to see 3x Royal Australian Air Force ( RAAF ) F-35A Lightning II out testing in Lockheed Martin plant in Ft worth, TX. AU7 and Au9 took off at about 1400hrs. One of them in the “strike” callsign Read More …