Military Aviation Photography and Spotting
Republic of Singapore Air Force ( RSAF ) have been training in Luke AFB since 1993 as 425th Fighter Squadron ( 425th FS ) ” Black Widows ” . Initially Singapore lease some F-16C Blk 42 but the program have since ended and currently, they are flying F-16C/D Blk Read More …
Location: Ellington Field , TX ( KEFD ) Friday: March 2, 2018 Drove over to Ellington Field after work with the intention of meeting a friend and fellow spotter and was quite surprised to see three E/A-18G Growlers sitting on the ramp taking on fuel. In talking with one of the guys who works the Read More …
1st Saturday of the month ( 2018-3-3 ) which also means Drill weekend for our local 301stFW “Spads” .. Spads did not fly on this Sat and our attention was sway towards Ft Worth Alliance Airport ( KAFW) which presented us with 6 VMFT-401 Snipers F-5n Marine Adversary Squadrons. This is the 3rd time I Read More …
Naval Air Station Fallon is US Navy’s premier tactical air warfare center specializing in Air to Air and Air to ground training. Due to the vast size of the nearby ranges, 80% of all Navy munitions dropped in training is done in NAS Fallon. This is also the only Navy airbase that could house an Read More …
VMFT-401 ” Snipers” is the Marine Corps only “Adversary or Aggressor ” Squadron in service. Currently located at MCAS Yuma AZ. This small unit flies the Northrop F-5n Tiger II with aircraft painted in the Eastern Bloc type adversarial Camouflage pattern. Most of these F-5n were ex-Swiss Air Force aircraft and the reason for choosing Read More …
Ellington Field KEFD military traffic for February 2018. Photos by Bill Havel
On this Spring day ( 2-17-2018) Ft worth Alliance Airport ( KAFW ) typical weekend of military traffic coming through this airport. Our local units VMFA-112 ( Cowboys ) have 2x F/A-18A++ doing some training . We were lucky to have caught them launch in the afternoon, recover after about 1.5 hours and later did Read More …
Singapore Aerospace 2018 was held in Changi International Airport in Feb 2018 in conjunction with the Republic of Singapore ( RSAF ) Airforce 50 years Anniversary. This year RSAF painted 2 of their F-15SG in the 50th Anniversary Scheme whereby One aircraft was put on static display while the other did an aerial demonstration with Read More …
Jan 2018 Ellington Field ( KEFD ) Starting January 2018 with the arrival of 11 VFA-14 Tophatter and VFA-97 Warhawks in Ellington Field ( KEFD ), 6 of them stayed in night. Both units as mentioned is currently station in NAS Leemore, CA part of the US Navy Pacific Fleet. Read More …
December 21st 47 years ago marks the birth of our beloved F-14 ” Tomcat”. F-14 would be “Grumman Ironwork’s” last Navy Fighters of our time. An Iconic symbol of Naval Aviation at its prime when “Maverick ” and “Goose” made their debut in the 1980s movie “Top Read More …
Ft Worth Alliance have this Annual Airshow in the Fall…. 2017 is no exceptions and we finally have some time to work on the backlog of pictures we have for the Fall Airshow time frame. This year Ft Worth Alliance’s flying schedule was kind of weak. We have the Blue Angels, USAF F-16 Demo on Read More …
On November 11-12, the annual Nellis Airshow, or Aviation Nation as it is more popularly known, took place in one of the biggest bases of the USAF, located in Las Vegas. This year’s main theme was the celebration of the USAF’s 70th anniversary and the show attracted around 200,000 visitors over the weekend. For this Read More …
2017 Airwingspotter.com started with a lot of local spotting activities in NAS Ft Worth KNFW. The early spring gets us some local traffic from the base including F-35 testing jets from Lockheed Martin Plant and our local squadron namely 301st FW “Spads” and VMFA-112 “Cowboys” The summer we welcome some Oregon F-15C, EA-18G from VX-9 Read More …
2018 Tactical demonstration team schedule USAF F-22A Raptor March 17: MCAS Yuma Airshow – Yuma, AZ March 24-25: Los Angeles County Airshow – Lancaster, CA March 24: Riverside Airshow – Riverside, CA April 3-8: FIDAE 2018 – Santiago, Chile April 28-29: Beale Air Show – Beale AFB, CA May 5-6: JB McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst Open House – Read More …
Here are the Schedule for fiscal year 2018 for all the demonstration Jet team and Tac demonstration USAF Thunderbirds March 10-11: Luke AFB Air Show – Luke AFB, AZ March 17-18: Melbourne Air & Space Show – Melbourne, FL March 24-25: Wings Over Atlanta – Dobbins ARB, GA April 7-8: March Field Air & Space Read More …
The McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II …. Mighty as it is and MD have built total 5195 units of various variants. This example we are looking into the short nose F-4D painted in the South East Asia camouflage scheme as use during the Vietnam war era. This particular Read More …
Exercise Dawn Blitz is an annual scenario-driven amphibious exercise designed to train and integrate the staffs of Expeditionary Strike Group 3 and 1st Marine Expeditionary Brigade. This Exercise started from 10/20 to 10/30 and encompasses international participants including Japan, Peru, Chile and Mexico. The exercise takes Read More …
Fall of 2017 marks the airshow season and Join Base San Antonio (JBSA) marks my last airshow for fiscal year 2017. This year we have the following acts that made this show very special. C-17 demostration KC-135 demostration MC-130J and CV-22 demostration Read More …
Fall has come upon us and in no time Turkey holidays and Christmas is up to grasp. We have a lot of military aviation spotting done for the month of September and October and have come up with some interesting catches Go Navy…. We have got some good Navy action especially the Super hornets that Read More …
ATHENS FLYING WEEK 2017 A fairly new European airshow on the calendar each year is the Athens Flying Week in Greece. On 16-17 September 2017, the 6th Athens Flying Week (AFW) airshow took place at Tanagra Air Force Base. This base is located 70 km north of Athens and it’s the home of the Greek Read More …