Shawbury Feb 2015

[andrewn]

Hi Scarecrow,

Do you know if the hawks and dauphin are still present, i.e. nightstopping?

Thanks

Nick

[dubmasteruk]

I know the Dauphin did depart back to hereford but not sure on the Hawks.

[andrewn]

Can confirm the Hawk's today were the same as yesterday:

XX318 - Pirate 15 (ARR/DEP)
XX246 - Pirate 06 (ARR/DEP)

Both Hawk's were taking part in JTAC training to the South of Shawbury. Only other Visitor was an overflight early afternoon by Lynx AH7 "AAC626", enroute Odiham to Valley.

Also, various engineless Tucano's were noted being shuffled round the airfield, including ZF416, ZF447, ZF345 and ZF263. Additionally ZF408 was seen inside one of the storage hangars.

DHFS Rotary noted were:
Griffins - coded; I,K,O,U & S
Squirrels - coded; 43,51,55,56,60,61,62,64,66,67,68,69,70,71,72,76,77,79,80

In amongst the DHFS fleet was a grey coloured Griffin, presumably an 84Sqn a/c?

[dubmasteruk]

Only other Visitor was an overflight early afternoon by Lynx AH7 "AAC626", enroute Odiham to Valley.

The Lynx showed on SBS as XZ616 on the 19th February.

[dubmasteruk]

Chinook U/K SHF 489

Chinook showed on sbs as ZD981 on the 18th February

[dubmasteruk]

17th February

According to a picture on shawbury's Facebook page a Chinook HC3 visited today (17th). Looking at sbs logs ZH898 was noted wearing a Shawbury Squawk and using the callsign 'Vortex427'

Also visiting was King Air G-IASA as 'Calibrator99'

[dubmasteruk]

XX246 showing north east of Shawbury inbound as 'Pirate15'

[dubmasteruk]

23rd February 2015

ZF116 SEAKING HC4 (UNKNOWN CALLSIGN)
G-FPLD KINGAIR 'CALIBRATOR22'