Arriving MST to be painted up for S7 Airlines. Ex United Airlines N908UA.

Delivered to Mesa Airlines as N228YV in 1996. To Great Lakes Airlines in 1998 and reregistered as N228GL in 1999. To ZS-PKA in 2005 and C-GMYY in 2012.

Operated by BAe Warton Trials Flight.

A strange contraption taking off from Rwy 27 at Mataram, Lombok.

CAG bird on the cat of the USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN-71) during the sundown cruise of the Tomcat.

Tomcat of Fighting Squadron (VF) 31 "Tomcatters" launched from the USS Theordore Roosevelt (CVN-71) while deployed in the Persian Gulf.

This 1978 Puma is used by Erickson Evergreen Helicopters but leased to the US Navy Military Sealift Command under a three plus two year contract of Geo-Seis Helicopters. Geo-Seis operated 2 SA330Js (see my other picture of N405R), aboard three MSC combat stores ships on a rotating basis beginning in Jan'05. The commercial helos deployed aboard the ships all over the world and operate often from shore bases for vertical replenishment missions. Strikingly, this N330JF is only painted as N330J. Check all the US Navy squadron (sticker)zaps on the wheel bay.

This "Candid" was built as Il-76MD and received registration CCCP-86903 within the Soviet Air Force before its delivery on 10 Mar'83. The bird was sold to Atlant as UR-86903 and converted to Il-76TD in '91. The airframe was 2 times reregistred within Atlant, to UR-76382 in Oct'94 and to RA-76382 in Feb'95. The aircraft was then sold to Atlant Aerobatics as HA-TCG in Jul'96. It operated mainly from Budapest and was transferred to again another Atlant, this time Atlant Hungary in May'00. It was seen at Shymkent (Kazakhstan) with cut off wings and tail in 2010. The fuselage was last seen in 2016.

This 1977 Puma is used by Erickson Evergreen Helicopters but leased to the US Navy Military Sealift Command under a contract of Geo-Seis Helicopters. The US Navy awarded Geo-Seis on 23 Nov 1999 a USD 20.3 million 3-year fixed price contract with an additional USD 10.9 million 2-year option to Geo-Seis Helicopters, Inc. The Fort Collins (CO) company Geo-Seis operated two SA330Js aboard three MSC combat stores ships on a rotating basis beginning in Jan 2005. The commercial helos deployed aboard the ships all over the world and operate often from shore bases for vertical replenishment missions.

The MH-60S Seahawk (with its unofficial name Knighthawk) entered into US Navy service in February 2002 as the replacement helicopter for the might CH-46D Sea Knight heavy-lift, tandem-rotor helicopters. This one was seen at Muharraq, assigned to Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron (HSC) 26 "Chargers", the largest US Navy expeditionary helicopter squadron on the US East Coast, operating some twenty MH-60S' from homebase NS Norfolk Chambers Field in Virginea.

The 8K tailcode on this UC-12M Huron reveals that it belongs to the Headquarters of the Commander Middle East Force (CMEF). The Beech is stationed at Muharraq Bahrain since 1999 and pictured in 2005 at its homebase in the small Gulf country. Before 1999, the military King Air variant served the Naval Air Facilities at Mildenhall (8G), Sigonella (no code), Naples (no code) and Rota (no code). It now flies uncoded with CMEF since 2006 and is still serving CMEF by mid 2018.

This all-white 1964 An-12BP (former Soviet Air Force CCCP-11511) became LZ-SFK with Air Sofia in June 1992. The Antonov then served Turkish (Aug'93), Air Afrique (Jan'94), Air Sofia (Mar'95), Air Mark (Mar'97), Air Sofia (May'97), Sri Lankan Al (Oct'01) before becoming YU-UIC in Sep'07. The aircraft was last reported as EX-153 serving L A Colombe Cargo from 2007, and last seen stored at Fujairah (UAE) in 2008. When pictured at Muharraq it flew cargo for DHL.

Sea Dragon of Helicopter Mine Countermeasures Squadron (HM) 15 "Blackhawks" ready to take me from Muharraq in Bahrain to the USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN-71) in the Persian Gulf.

Launch!

F-14D resting on the deck of the USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN-71) during its sundown cruise.