Random aircraft sightings

[sickboy]

Anyone on NAS Jax see the aircraft parked behind customs today? I didn't get the greatest look while driving past but it looked like a pair of A-4s, An F3D, and a P-2. Any idea what they're doing there?

 

[Gatordev]

ATAC will have an A-4 there from time to time. I had one parked next to me one morning a few years ago. I can't find the pic on here at the moment.

 

[Flash]

Anyone on NAS Jax see the aircraft parked behind customs today? I didn't get the greatest look while driving past but it looked like a pair of A-4s, An F3D, and a P-2. Any idea what they're doing there?

ATAC will have an A-4 there from time to time. I had one parked next to me one morning a few years ago. I can't find the pic on here at the moment.

If it was ATAC it could might have been a Hawker Hunter training bird, they have side-by-side seating and vaguely look kind of like a skinny Skyknight.

 

[Gatordev]

If it was ATAC it could might have been a Hawker Hunter training bird, they have side-by-side seating and vaguely look kind of like a skinny Skyknight.

Ironically, the Hawker was the other plane next to the A-4 that same morning. I'll ocassionally see a Hawker out on the T-line at NASNI, as well.

I couldn't find the pic I had here on AW, so here it is again. I think the shadow next to me is the Hawker...it's too bulbous to be the T-34 I was about to get into.

 

[sickboy]

If it was ATAC it could might have been a Hawker Hunter training bird, they have side-by-side seating and vaguely look kind of like a skinny Skyknight.

That's a very good possibility.

 

[ea6bflyr]

The only P2Vs that are still airworthy are all flying fire suppression missions.

 

[helolumpy]

The aircraft at Jax right now are from ATAC which has the Hawker Hunters and Kfirs (http://www.atacusa.com/atac_aircraft.html); Phoenix Air is flying a Lear And King Air (http://phoenixair.com/milops.html); VFA-204 is flying legacy Hornets (not sure of the variant since they borrowed some jets from VFC-12.

 

[Renegade One]

The aircraft at Jax right now are from ATAC which has the Hawker Hunters and Kfirs; Phoenix Air is flying a Lear And King Air; VFA-204 is flying legacy Hornets (not sure of the variant since they borrowed some jets from VFC-12.

What? No "partridges in a pear tree?"

 

[Renegade One]

The only P2Vs that are still airworthy are all flying fire suppression missions.

One helluva dramatic photo…sheesh!

 

[tribeaviation]

Speaking of ATAC, I take my students to KPHF to get them some practice working with a tower, and I snapped some pictures of a few of their Hunters and Kfirs holding short and then departing on Monday. Always fun for students on their first trip to a towered airport to get in the mix with a few legacy fighter aircraft.

 

[707guy]

Looks like an old SAAB Draken in that ramp shot.

 

[Flash]

Looks like an old SAAB Draken in that ramp shot.

Yup, ATAC doesn't have those anymore so I wonder who was flying it.

 

[sickboy]

Apparently I need to work on my recce.

 

[707guy]

Yup, ATAC doesn't have those anymore so I wonder who was flying it.

I've heard of a few that were in civilian hands - I'll have to do some research.

This old dude started doing regular weekday runs out of Aguadilla, PR:

Pretty sure I've fueled that a/c before...

 

[Renegade One]

This old dude started doing regular weekday runs out of Aguadilla, PR:

Looks suspiciously like a re-engined variant of the first airplane I trained in at VT-10:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7d/Convair_T-29B_(240-27),_USA_-_Navy_AN1506368.jpg

Of historical note, my logbook shows that I logged 11 hours in this exact tail number on the 6th and 10th of December, 1971…NPA to NPA…long-range dead-reckoning nav hops. Drift meters…CDMVTAE…CAS/IAS/TAS airspeed conversions…Jeppesen CR-5 flight computers, plotters and pencils on big charts...you get the idea...