Spotting up and down the east coast of the United States

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Spotting up and down the east coast of the United States

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Here's a collection of shots I took last night while spotting military AI aircraft around the eastern coast of the USA. Enjoy.

AH-64 Apache from Ft. Bragg, NC cruising by Seymour Johnson AFB:
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A pair of Apaches out on one of the Ft. Bragg range complexes:
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A lone AV-8B Harrier from MCAS Cherry Point, makes his way across the Carolina shore:
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A flight of two Marine Corp Harriers from Cherry Point, line up for their landing approach:
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A rare sight, a US Marine Corps C-9 executive transport:
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Another C-9 transport, this time from the US Navy:
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The mighty C-23 Sherpa sits quietly awaiting its next mission:
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Marine Corps C-130Js bask in the evening light on the ramp at MCAS Cherry Point:
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Cruising down the coast, another C-130J, this time serving the US Coast Guard and flying from CGAS Elizabeth City, NC:
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A line of CH-47 Chinook helicopters from Ft. Bragg:
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Spotted at Naval Air Station Oceana is this Navy E-6B Mercury:
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Just up the road from NAS Oceana, this F-15C from the 1st Fighter Wing at Langley AFB chases its own shadow to touchdown:
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A visitor to the ramp at Cherry Point, this F-15E Strike Eagle is overnighting before returning to its home of Mountain Home AFB in Idaho:
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Out testing the latest upgrades to the Fighting Falcon is this F-16C from the 85th Test and Evaluation Squadron based at Eglin AFB in Florida:
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Crusing just off the coast in search of intruding submarines is this P-3C Orion based out of NAS Jacksonville in Florida:
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A T-34C Mentor sits on the ramp at NAS Oceana:
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A flight of student Naval Aviators and their instructors head for MCAS Cherry Point in their T-45C Goshawks:
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From US Navy Training Wing 4, NAS Corpus Christi Texas, This lone T-45 prepares to land at NAS Oceana:
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An overseas visitor, an RAF Typhoon rests for the night at NAS Oceana:
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Thanks for looking!
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Post by djnocturnal »

Great shots Mike. North Carolina has become one of my favorite places to fly around!
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It certainly is busy around those parts between Seymour Johnson, Ft. Bragg, Cherry Point, Raleigh, Elizabeth City and others.
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Some nice shots there Mike; am I right in thinking that the odd-one-out is the C-23A? All the others are MAIW.......?

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The C-23A is from maybe the SE ANG package?? But it is from one of our packs for sure.
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Honestly it looks like a Rhode Island Army Guard Sherpa...future package maybe?
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Great stuff, Mike.
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Great shots. I'm interested in the Sherpa as well, I have all the ANG repaints, but haven't put together any flight plans yet.
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VERY nice pic Mike, I might be just a bit bias though and yes all of those pics are from our packages :wink:
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Post by Felixthreeone »

Nah....that Sherpa is definitely from the Southeast Guard package....we don't have Rhode Island sherpas....maybe it was a BRAC thing?
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I am going to have to go searching for that Sherpa. I don't think I have seen that plane flying in my sim yet. (I do have the MAIW Southeast Guard package)
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You know I don;t think that Sherpa is part of a offical MAIW package. I was looking at the MAIW aircraft list and the C-23 is not on there
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Joseph29 wrote:You know I don;t think that Sherpa is part of a offical MAIW package. I was looking at the MAIW aircraft list and the C-23 is not on there
I say Holmes I think we have a mystery on our hands.......I haven't got a Sherpa on my system - the only plans I know of are by Ed Kooymans for the Florida National Guard

c23-usarng-fl_v10.zip on avsim and repaints dwai_c23_us_army.zip

Suppose I'd better go get those now.....
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Joseph29 wrote:You know I don;t think that Sherpa is part of a offical MAIW package. I was looking at the MAIW aircraft list and the C-23 is not on there
Yet.
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Nope its not released, but no its not SE ANG either. :D
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I remember having some Sherpas in a pkg that featured a couple of Army Airfields in North Florida but I can't remember what it was :? It was just a small thing someone had put together and uploaded to AVSIM I believe; it may not have even had the models included. Good luck evrybody! :D
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Mystery solved: Indeed it is part of an upcoming package. :wink:
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Awww you've spoilt it now.
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not really spoilt! We'll be looking forward to it now!!
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MIKE JG wrote:Mystery solved: Indeed it is part of an upcoming package. :wink:
AHA! :oops:
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