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Paris must have been the most favourite city for the USAF
in 2017 as they also participated with multiple jet aircraft
during the celebrations of the Bastille Day Military Parade
on 14 July 2017. President Trump of the United States had
been personally invited by France’s President Macron to join
the celebrations because this year it was hundred years ago
since the United States was helping France by actively being
involved into World War One. Nowadays the United States
and France are working close together in the Global War
Against Terrorism. During this year’s Parade, the Thunder-
birds with six F-16C Fighting Falcons and two F-22A Raptors
had prominent places between the formations of the French
military aircraft over Paris. The Thunderbirds and Raptors
also participated in this year’s RIAT at RAF Fairford.
One of the largest F-16 Fighting Falcon squadrons in the USAF
inventory, Spangdahlem’s Warhawks, touched down at RAF
Lakenheath at the beginning of July 2017. The F-16s from the
480th FS/52nd FW had to vacate Spangdahlem Air Base in
Germany allowing to get some necessary construction-work
to be done at the base. Of the, normally 28 F-16s assigned
to the 480th FS, 18 aircraft flew in three waves on 10 July
towards Lakenheath. An official USAF stated that Airmen
from the 480th FS would train alongside Lakenheath’s resi-
dent 48th FW Airmen and British Allies and that the flying
training deployment was scheduled to last several weeks.
The following SP coded F-16Cs were involved:
90-0813 90-0827 90-0828 91-0338 91-0340 91-0342 91-0343
91-0344 91-0351 91-0358 91-0361 91-0403 91-0412 91-0416
91-0418 96-0080 96-0083 and F-16D 91-0472. 96-0080 is
marked 480FS.
A dozen 23rd Wing A-10C Thunderbolt-II aircraft from Moody
AFB (GA) arrived in the afternoon of 13 July 2017 at RAF
Mildenhall in Great Britain. The Flying Tigers were transiting
to replace the twelve 354thFS A-10s from Davis Monthan AFB
(AZ) that arrived in January at Incirlik Air Base in Turkey. The
following FT coded A-10Cs from mainly the 74th FS were seen
at Mildenhall to become part of the 447th Air Expeditionary
Group in support of Operation Inherent Resolve (OIR):
78-0614 78-0616 78-0621 78-0644 78-0646 79-0157 79-0189
79-0223 80-0172 80-0188 80-0223 and 82-0657. 79-0223 is
marked 23FG.
On 18 July 2017, the above-mentioned Davis Monthan A-10Cs
were seen transiting Lajes on the Azores on their way back to
the Continental United States (CONUS). The following twelve
354thFS/355th Wing A-10Cs made the stop-over at Lajes:
79-0168, 80-0275, 81-0945, 81-0965, 81-0976, 81-0980, 81-0983,
81-0988, 81-0991, 81-0992, 82-0648 and 82-0656.
A-10C
79-0151/DP 47th FS AFRC A10-0415 mar17
A-29
13-2014 81st FS f/n 31400214 jan17
13-2016 81st FS f/n 31400216 jan17
13-2019 81st FS f/n 31400219 jan17
13-2020 81st FS f/n 31400220 jan17
15-2021 81st FS f/n mar17
15-2022 81st FS f/n mar17
15-2024 81st FS f/n mar17
B-1B
86-0120/EL 37th BS ex OT/337th TES 80 jun17
C-130H
74-1659 164th AS OH ANG, ex YJ/36th AS 382-4585 jun17
74-1669 118th AS CT ANG, ex YJ/36th AS 382-4617 apr17
79-0473 309th AMARG, ex 192nd AS 382-4852 aug15
81-0627 309th AMARG, ex 154th TS 382-4941 jul17
81-0630 309th AMARG, ex 164th AS 382-4945 jul17
82-0057 309th AMARG, ex 144th AS 382-4973 jul17
82-0060 309th AMARG, ex 144th AS 382-4979 jul17
85-0041 309th AMARG, ex 357th AS 382-5086 jul17
86-0413 309th AMARG, ex 327th AS 382-5100 oct14
86-0415 309th AMARG ex 327th AS 382-5105 jul17
86-0413 arrived at AMARG on 29 March 2017, whilst 86-0415
arrived at AMARG on 1 March 2017.
C-130H-2
85-0036 309th AMARG ex 357th AS 382-5074 jul17
85-0038 309th AMARG ex 357th AS 382-5079 jul17
85-0039 309th AMARG ex 357th AS 382-5080 jul17
85-0040 309th AMARG ex 357th AS 382-5083 jul17
85-0042 309th AMARG ex 357th AS 382-5089 jul17
C-130H-2 AMP
89-9101 309th AMARG AFRC 382-5216 jul17
C-130J-30
08-8606 41st AS ex 48th AS 382-5614 may17
14-5807/YJ 374th AW ‘374AW’ jul17- 382-5807 jul17
15-5810/YJ 374th AW 382-5810 jul17
15-5813/YJ 374th AW 382-5813 jul17
C-17A
02-1107 62nd AW ex 58th AS 115/F114/P107 apr17
C-5A
69-0020 309th AMARG ex 337th AS 500-51 jul17
70-0448 309th AMARG ex 337th AS 500-62 jul17
70-0456 309th AMARG ex 337th AS 500-70 jul17
C-9A
71-0876 to N10876 to Waterworld Jet 47475/653 may17
E-8C-10
93-0597/GA 309th AMARG GA ANG 19294/550/P-3 jul17
The remains of this E-8C were seen at AMARG in July 2017.
F-105G-1-RE
62-4438 Pearl Harbor at Pacific Avn Museum F027 may17
F-16A-10-CF
80-0498/SH Pearl Harbor ex 309th AMARG 61-219 jul17
F-16C-30-CF
85-1546/TX 309th AMARG ex 457th FS 5C-288 jul17
F-16C-40-CF
88-0457/HO 56th FW 1C-59 may17
88-0466/HL 466th FS ex HL/4th FS 1C-68 may17
88-0495/HL 421st FS ex FL/4th FS 1C-97 may17
90-0744/HL 466th FS ‘419 OG’ 1C-352 may17
F-16C-42-CF
88-0472/HO 311th FS 1C-74 jun17
89-2004/HO 311th FS unit disbanded 15jun16 1C-157 jul17
F-16CM-42-CF
89-2028/OK 125th FS damaged 21jun17 1C-181 jun17
F-16CM-50-CF
91-0347 179th FS MN ANG;ex 77th FS CC-45 may17
F-16D-40-CF
87-0393/HL 4th FS ex HL/421st FS 1D-3 may17
F-22A-35-LM
08-4158/FF 27th FS 645-4158 may17
08-4169/FF 27th FS 645-4169 may17
09-4177/FF 27th FS 645-4177 may17
F-35A-3F
15-5122/HL 34th FS AF-113 may17
15-5123/LF 63rd FS AF-114 apr17
15-5124/HL 34th FS AF-115 mar17
15-5125/HL 62nd FS AF-116 jun17
15-5126/HL 34th FS AF-117 jun17
15-5127/LF 63rd FS AF-118 jun17
15-5130/LF AF-121 jun17
15-5131/HL 4th FS? AF-122 jul17
F-35A-3I
14-5104/HL 34th FS AF-105 feb17
14-5107/LF 62nd FS f/f 27jan17 AF-108 apr17
15-5118/OT 422nd TES AF-109 may17
15-5119/WA 16th WPS AF-110 jun17
