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Collecting Osprey's   26 April  2011 - Ade Hairsine

With the four V-22's have been an Mildenhall for around 3 or 4 weeks now and I haven't and with them going this Friday a last chance trip to get them kicked off this morning at 5am, As per usual down to Phil's place and off we went first call Cambridge via the 70mph look at East Mids Eastern cargo ramp from the M1

East Midlands 26-04-2011

Cargo East
OY-SRF B-767 Starair

Cambridge 26-04-2011

Not much in here but noted anyway were
G-OAMB Ce-510
G-SOVA Ce-550
CS-DNW Ce-560
CS-DNY Ce-560
CS-DXB Ce-560

Military

XV208/nn C-130
XV212/212 C-130
XV294/294 C-130
ZD949/nn L-1011 RAF
XV???/?? C-130 RAF
XV???/??? C-130 RAF

Others

G-NAAA Bo-105
G-RALR Ro-44

Req's

????? Pc-12
????? TBM-700

And across to Mildenhall for a good mornings spotting here

Mildenhall 26-04-2011

And what a greeting, 16 visiting (Inc the V-22's) aircraft noted here this morning, I wish it was like this every day
57-1419 Kc-135
58-0069 Kc-135
62-3554 Kc-135
63-7984 Kc-135
63-8035 Kc-135
63-8045 Kc-135
69-0009 C-5
76-1604/OK E-3
07-0033 CV-22
08-0037 CV-22
08-0039 CV-22
08-0038 CV-22
87-24583 UH-60
87-24584 UH-60

And two none US visitors

71-1468 C-130 Turkish A/F
ZG996 Bn-2 Defender RAF

Based aircraft noted

64-14854 C-130
65-0991 C-130
65-0992 C-130
66-0220 C-130
87-0024 C-130
88-0195 C-130
57-1488/D Kc-135
57-1493/D Kc-135
62-3565/D Kc-135
63-7979/D Kc-135

OTT
Seen going ott into Lakenheath

(9)1 0312/LN F-15
(9)1 0324/LN F-15
(9)1 0603/LN F-15
(9)6 0201/LN F-15

And a few more we did not note, Back on the road and back to Phil's place where we parted company for the day. I decided to have a look at Gamston on the way home

Gamston 26-04-2011

Nothing of note for me seen here today just a few GA bits around the place
A little down in the mouth with this i went off to Robin Hood Airport or finningley as i still call it

Robin Hood Airport 26-04-2011

This turned out to be quite good with a few biz jets noted and a very nice new resident
Terminal area
G-THOO B-737
XH558/- Vulcan (A great sight any day pity i missed it flying today)

Citation hangar area

G-CDCX Ce-750
D-IbBA Ce-525
M-ICRO Ce-525
LN-RYG Ce-525
N53GX BD-700
N80364 Ce-500

Req

G-EZIZ A-319 Easyjet on ILS training
????? Ce-680 inside the Citation hangar

And that was that a good day out with the Ospreys in the bag and a few more bits as well, Cheers to Phil and Josh who were with me

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