Showing posts with label 1982/12. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 1982/12. Show all posts

23 March 2022

28th December 1982

 VVV 50500 73n 09w 11:12, 75n 12w 11:37, 77n 08w next

U S Navy RP-3A 150500 (c/n 5026) "Project Birdseye/Artic Fox", VXN-8 Sqdn, working Croughton Radio on 11175

[Withdrawn from use October 1992 at NADEP, Jax and sold for scrap to TBZ Metal Co, Macon, GA]


Photo: © Doug Remington, taken at McChord AFB on 29/07/1982

18th December 1982

Falcon N50FJ 59n 20w 16:20 F430 60n 30w 17:18, 60n 40w next

Falcon 50 N50FJ working Shanwick on 8889

HZ-TAG 48n 30w 16:28 F410 climbing F430 48n 40w 17:39, 49n 50w 18:58

Cl-600S, HZ-TAG, TAG Aviation


[Photo: © EX/ZX Collection, taken at Geneva]

WILEY 18 NOVEMBER 17:22 F240 OSCAR 17:44, 41n 35w 18:35

USAF C-130 (?) working Santa Maria 8889

13 March 2022

7th December 1982

VC 6410 62n 40w 14:00 F180, req' F200 61n 45w 14:41, 61n 50w next, SelCal GHAL

Canadian Air Force CC-130, 130326 working Iceland 8910

VC 756 61n 20w 15:38, F350 62n 30w 16:13, 61n 40w 16:50, 59n 50w next, outside temp' -61, wind 150/45

Canadian Air Force CC-137, working Shanwick on 8910

VVV LC81 37n 50w 16:43 F250 38n 45w 17:29, 39n 40w next

U S Navy P-3 working MacDill Airways on 13244

6th December 1982

 AFL 339 54n 30w 20:18 F310 50n 40w 21:10, 49n 50w next, ETA Havana 03:30, outside temp' -40, wind 180/40, Mach .81

Aeroflot working Gander 5638

4th December 1982

RFR MAR08 dep'Brize Norton 14:10, 46n 08w 15:20 F290 45n 09w 15:30, 44n 10w 15:42, 42n 10w 15:58, 37n 10w next, ETA Gibraltar 17:30, Mach .69

RAF flight (VC-10?) working Shanwick on 8910

SAM 86970 39n 20w 16:04, F310 BRAVO 16:35, BRAVO radar next

USAF (Special Air Mission) VC-137, 58-6970 working Santa Maria on 8945

N65L 37.30n 20w 17:29 F390, ECHO 17:55, req' Santa Maria weather

Sabre 65 working Santa Maria on 8945. Acopian Technical Co., Easton, PA, later became N376D with Western Wings Corp. Last noted with BAE Systems TSS Inc, at Mojave in 2016


[Photo © EX/ZX Collection, taken at Shannon]