Alliance Ft Worth Airshow 2018

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 …

ATAC Fall 2018 Update

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 …

VMFT-401 Snipers in KAFW ( 2-4-2018)

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 …

VFA-143 Pukin Dogs and VMFA-112 Hornets

3/25/2017 kAFW Ft worth Alliance Airport, TX             A typical Spring Sat whereby Ft worth Alliance Airport ( AFW ) gets her typical weekend traffic. We saw quite a bit of Navy transient traffic came by AFW on Friday with at least 8 F-18E/F mixed from VFA-41 Black Aces and Read More …

NAS Ft worth and Alliance Airport Ft worth 4-30-2016

Spotting day on 4-30-2016 Pages best view on PC and MAC Weather was quite gloomy with lots of clouds in the morning and we got a good north wind meaning runway 34 or 36 on both airports.  I started by checking out KAFW Ft Worth Alliance and got a greeting of 2x F-15C from 122FS Read More …