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24 April 2013

10th October 1979

Air Force Rescue 60220 'J' 06:52 F100 35.43n 34.58w 08:01, please call Lajes back before you go operational and try to use this frequency (5610) as your operational frequency. Request descent at 34.53n.
AF 60220 request you call the command post and see if SAR 09 is airborne? Yes, SAR 09 off Lajes at 06:55; please make your primary 4746 with 6750 as secondary.

Air Force Rescue 95820 calling Lajes on 4746, Lajes transmission was breaking up.

USAF, HC-130P's, 66-0220 and 69-5820 with 67 ARRS.
On a rescue mission with local support from Lajes (SAR = Search and Rescue) 09 (type ?)

22 April 2013

7th October 1979

LOBO 71B departed Lajes 08:10 38.58n 22.36w 08:41 F370 39n 20w 09:00 38.53n 15w 09:22 ETA Rota, NAS 10:55 Call Lisbon Radio on 8967 or 4746

USAF, C-9 (?), working Lajes Airways on 6750.

APRIL 46 departed Mildenhall 07:02 56n 10w 08:42 F220 57n 20w 09:50 ETA Goose Bay 15:05, ops normal and relay to 21st AB.

USAF, C-130, working Croughton Airways on 6750

APRIL 40 departed Mildenhall 08:00 56n 10w 09:28 F220 58n 30w 11:31 ETA Goose Bay 16:30

USAF, C-130

5th October 1979

FIFTH 83 60n 10w 07:17 F230 58.13n 06.11w 07:47 endurance 07+00, wind 040/10 at 60n 12w, outside temp' -27°C. Requested a 'phone patch to PHANTOM 85 (European Airlift Co-ordination Centre), advised ETA Mildenhall 09:15, AI with 6 crew.

USAF, (type?), working Croughton Airways on 9011

VVV 695XJ departed ENVA/Trondheim, Norway 06:50 F180 64.20n 06.47e 07:17 65.34n 00 07:52 66.40n 11w 08:40 going operational at 11w for 4 hours 30 min's below controlled airspace. ETA ENVA 13:30. Requested a 'phone patch to Autovon 282-3181

U S Navy, RP-3A, 149667, VXN-8 Squadron, 'Project Seascan/El Coyete'.
This aircraft was written off at Jacksonville NAS on 7th February 1981 and later used for fire practice.

[Photo: at RAF Kinloss, Scotland, September 1982 © Jim Simpson]
[Photo: at Patuxent River NAS, May 1987 © 'RedRipper24'] 

VM 28427 on a 'phone patch to Autovon 625-1110 extn. 5224 (ATOC, Naples, Italy) "departed Lajes, Azores 00:42 ETA Naples 10:00, we are a C-118 request a passenger boarding ramp, DC power supply, oil, 150 lbs of dry ice for pick up on Monday morning. We are departing on Monday morning"

U S M C, VC-118B, 128427.
This aircraft was withdrawn from use in February 1982 and stored at Davis Monthan, AZ. Later re-registered N427D with Lan-Dale Company in 1986 and stored at Tucson, AZ but later moved to storage at Cherry Point, NC (see image below).

[Photo: stored at Cherry Point © via Fergal Goodman]