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Cecil Field Resurgent?

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Cecil Field Resurgent?

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Looking at the latest Google maps images of Cecil Field, there is a lot of military presence back. I figure some of the P-8s can be explained by the Boeing facility there, but the P-3s, C-40s and C-130s lead me to believe there is more to the story. The remarked taxiways and parking locations tell me it's not just an exercise.

Is Cecil being used as a relief training field for Jacksonville?
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NAS Jax was having the main runway repaved, so those should be Jax based P-8s/C-130s.
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Re: Cecil Field Resurgent?

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A new updated Cecil Field scenery package would be nice. A nice mix of Military and Civilian on the old base.
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Re: Cecil Field Resurgent?

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I see that in the NOTAMS that 09L is still closed. It was being used for P3 AND P8 parking. I had thought that with the traffic had all gone back to Jacksonville. Does anyone know for certain if there is still Jacksonville traffic at Cecil?
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Re: Cecil Field Resurgent?

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All the units have returned to NAS Jax. Cecil is still used as a practice landing field to relieve the heavy traffic at NAS Jax.
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Re: Cecil Field Resurgent?

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Piecing together some information from various sources gives me these for the DHS/CBP P-3s:

P-3 AEW
152722 N147CS
153446 N144CS
153447 N143CS
153452 N142CS
154575 N148CS
154581 N149CS
154605 N146CS
155299 N145CS

P-3 LRT
152729 N769SK
152741 N741SK
153423 N423SK
153431 N431SK

Since I can see four P-3 AEW on the ground at Cecil, I'm going to guess the AEWs are split half and half with Corpus. Anyone know which are where?
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Re: Cecil Field Resurgent?

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When I drove by yesterday there were 4 AEW and 2 LRT on the line. Too far to see BUNOs.
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