VFC-204 River Rattlers

Military Aviation Photography and Spotting
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Wings over houston 2021. Texas premier Airshow in the Houston area held in Ellington Field Anually. debut the best US and foreign military display and WW2 heritage aircrafts from CAF Read More ...
HELLENIC VIPERS The Lockheed Martin (General Dynamics) F-16 Fighting Falcon is without any doubt the most successful and capable American fighter in modern aviation history. Well known for its unique and proven capabilities in many battle fields around the Globe. The Hellenic Air Force is one of the many operating Air Arms of the successful Read More ...
Tomcats capture all the glory days of Modern naval Aviation . I was fascinated by this “cat” after the movie ” Final Countdown” and when I 1st boarded the Aircraft Carrier USS Constellation CV-64 back in the 1980s. There were 2 squadrons of F14A on board namely the Fighting Checkmates VF-211and Fighting Renegades VF-24. This Read More ...
Meiringen Airbase Information ICAO Code LSMM Runway : 10/28 Position : 46°44’36″N 008°06’36″E Frequencies 360.875 / 130.150 Tower 268.625 / 138.050 Info 138.275 / 142.325 Arrival / Departure 143.775 / 249.800 Arrival / Departure 368.450 Arrival / Departure 143.200 Axalp Shooting Range 138.600 Ground Crew-Pilots Local Squadrons Fliegerstaffel 8 F-5E/F Fliegerstaffel 11 F/A-18C/D ( I Read More ...
Komatsu Airport 小松飛行場 (RJNK) located in the city of Komatsu, Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan. This airport shares between the Civilian airport for the city of Komatsu and the Japanese Self Defence Air Force. This airport spot a single 8860 ft runway of designation 06-24. Komatsu airbase houses the following units : 6th Air Wing (第6航空団) 303rd Read More ...
The Days of the Mighty Phantom is coming to a closure soon in the Land of the Rising Sun. All Japanese F-4 Phantom is currently base at Hyakuri Airbase ( RJAH) just 53 miles north of Tokyo. Currently only 2 of the active squadrons still flies the F-4. There are 2 parallel runway 21L 03R Read More ...
Red Flag Alaska started at Clark AB, Philippines in 1976. Upon its closure this Air Exercise has moved to Eielson AFB, Alaska and renamed Cope Thunder. In 2006 it was again renamed, this time Red Flag Alaska (RFA) which still stands today. This multi-service and multinational exercise has hosted various 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 ...
Fall calls for the Airshow season to end the fiscal year. Wings Over Houston is a spectacular airshow that captures the imagination and hearts of aviation enthusiasts from around the world. Held annually in Houston, Texas, this thrilling event brings together a mesmerizing display of aircraft, aerobatic performances, and aviation history. With a rich history Read More …
Our local base NAS Ft worth KNFW been the icon for us North Texans in military aircrafts… Here are some of the actions we get for the past months. US Marines VMFA-224 Bengals. They were on TDY in MCAS Miramar and heading home to MCAS Beaufort. Nowadays they fly a combination of F/A-18 C and Read More …
We got some great Actions from this Legion Air A-4L Skyhawk. This was photograph on 8-11-2023 in KEFD Ellington Field in Houston TX. This Single A-4L was doing some local flying and carrying this new pod on the centerline that they are testing. Thanks to Bill Havel we got 1st hand of these beautifully photographed Read More …
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KAFW Ft worth Alliance have our share of military traffic that swing by, Here we have a typcal weekend that are swarm with activities. VMFT-1 US Marines Adversary Squadron T-38 from Various USAF Squadrons usually hang out here in the weekends. And here we have some Sheppard, Lauglin, Randolph and Vance AFB.
Defenders of Liberty 2023- Barksdale AFB Airshow Read More …
03-18-2023 Ellington Field , KEFD We were fortunate to have caught 2 of these River Rattlers which formerly flew teh F/A-18 Legacy Hornet doing the US Navy Adversary role. They have recently have switch to flying the Northrop F-5n . Here we see 2 of their F-5n in the gloomy weather of Houston Texas…… More Read More …
Naval Base San Diego is the second largest Naval base of the Unted States Navy. . Naval Air Station North Island ( NASNI) is also located right beside the Naval base to support most of the fleet’s rotary wing assets and supporting air assets. NASNI NASNI NAS North Island itself is host to 23 aviation Read More …
Our local squadrons USMC VMFA-112 and 301st FW usually do their Drill weekend once a month and for my 1st 2023 actions for NAS JRB Ft worth our boys and girls don’t fail us. Weather was breezy and cloudy with wind gusting to 20 knots using Runway 18. Manage to catch them doing some great Read More …
Marine Corps Air Station Yuma. It is the home of multiple squadrons of the F-35B Lightning IIs of the 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing, Marine Adversary Squadron VMFT-401, 4th Marine Airwing and the Marine Operational Test and Evaluation Squadron VMX-1. Our trip in November got us into a WTI ( Weapon Training Instructor) exercise. F-35B Actions Read More …
We ended 2022 with the Aviation Nation in Nellis AFB. Home of the USAF jet demonstration team Thunderbirds and also home of the USAF 64th and 65th Adversary Squadrons. 2022 also marked the 75th Anniversary for the Air Adversary Squadrons. This year’s flying display included the USAF ACC F-35A, F-22A demonstration. US Navy F/A-18 and Read More …
We were fortunate to get lots of actions in NAS Ft worth ..KNFW .Here you can see some of our locals flying namely VMFA-112 Cowboys flying F/A-18C ….. F-16C squadron 457thFS “Spads”.. the Red looking L39 belongs to Lockheed Martin test platform. We usually get some visitors and here we have 2x F-15E from Egloin Read More …
This Spring 2022, we get to visit JOint Reserve Base New Orleans for the Airshow and open house. 2022 is very different becasue the Local VFA-204 River Rattlers will be flying the F/A-18 Hornet for the last time and transiting to the a new VFC-204 squadron flying the F-5N TIger II . They serve the Read More …
In the time of Covid, 2021 marks an era of going back to normal . Wings over Houston was in the full swing for 2021 with an actual walk in Airshow. We have 2 normal airshow days for Sat snd Sun while Friday the show was a Drive in with mostly Military participants. Houston Airshow Read More …
Ft worth Allliance airshow 2021. Highlights include the 457th FS F16, USAF ACC F16 and A-10C demo, C17 demo and US Navy Blue angels flying the latest F/A-18 E/F Superhornet
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F-15C from 159th FW, F/A-18 from VMFT-101 nad VFA-204 … Military aircraft actions in North TExas! Read More …
F-15C 159th FW Bayou Militia Read More …
Wings over South Texas 2021 Airshow Read More …
Texas Springtime comes with wet and wild weather….. Bluebonnets and Spring time rain but we still gets lots of Military aircrafts actions!!! Lets start with our 301st FW Spads ….. Texas colors!!!! Lockheed Martin have been real busy with their spring time testing….. Lots of F-35B hover test,Navy F-35C “big Wing” lightning II and lots Read More …
Spring is almost going to pass us and here in North Texas…. we have quite a bit of good Military aircraft traffic in our belt for February. 1st Encounter came from “Camelot” VFA-14 F/A-18E base out of NAS Leemore, CA coming thru Ft Worth alliance which include the CAG bird . Next came VMFT-401 Snipers Read More …