It was nice to photograph a A400m today, haven't photographed or seen one since last November, this was ZM414 headed south at about 1,100ft. Snowdonia, North Wales🏴
Looks like another RAF🇬🇧 C17 headed for the US🇺🇸/Canada🇨🇦 this afternoon.
ZZ172 Airborne from RAF Brize Norton.
ZZ176 Airbine from Bangor International Airport.
Multiple US Military flights headed abroad this evening from different bases/airportsin the US🇺🇸
USAF🇺🇸 C17 | RCH525
From Portsmouth International.
Atlas Air🇺🇸 747 | CMB523
From Pope Field.
Western Global🇺🇸 747 | CMB328
From Dover AFB.
⚠️I had a go at listing all recent military cargo flights to 🇺🇦Ukraine over the past 2.5 weeks that I could find. I found 18 so far. I'm confident of 16.
10 flights are from the 🇬🇧United Kingdom.
6 are from the 🇺🇸United States of America.
1 is from 🇵🇱Poland.
1 is from 🇹🇷Turkey.
RCH866 | 07-7180
USAF🇺🇸 C17 descending for Shannon Airport, Ireland🇮🇪 this evening, took off from Joint base Andrews, Washington DC earlier on in the day.
CMB571🇺🇸 Airborne from Davis Monthan-Tucson AFB, Arizona currently headed N/E over the US.
National Airlines | Boeing 747 | N729CA.
This airframe had visited Kiev🇺🇦 on the 25/01/22. Unsure at this time if she's crossing the Atlantic anytime soon.
CMB573🇺🇸 Airborne from Nellis AFB, Navada. Currently headed N/E over the US. And most likely crossing the Atlantic tonight.
National Airlines | Boeing 747 | N952CA
Looks like its a 2nd CMB flight to leave the US on 28/01/22
Interesting: It looks like KC-135R 🇺🇸62-3540 #LAGR872 is refueling Boeing C-17A Globemaster III 🇺🇸01-0186 as #RCH483.
As far as I know, AAR is only done to C-17As in a hurry or carrying "hot cargo" - and this one is from 🇹🇷🇺🇸☢️ Incirlik, a base that has U.S. nuclear weapons.
After #CMB312, #CMB313 and #CMB314: #CMB315, a likely 4th recent U.S. Transportation Command flight to 🇺🇦Kyiv Boryspil, Ukraine. Previous flights carried some 75-90 tonnes of "lethal aid" (=weaponry) each.
"National Airlines" 🇺🇲N919CA
27/28 of January 2022.
CMB315🇺🇸 Out of Dover AFB, Delware.
National Airlines | Boeing 747 | N919CA looks like its crossing the Atlantic, possible cargo headed for Ukraine🇺🇦
Not a bad region of the world to do a "stint."
Alphabet soup agency team transport (🕵️🤫) returning from somewhere (likely) in the Caribbean.
🇺🇸 STINT73 is a C-32B using hex code #AE0443, associated with registration 00-9001.
Pair of USAF🇺🇸 C17's working under air mobility command today.
Both cargo aircraft airborne from Pope Army Airfield, North Carolina.
RCH151 headed for Bangor International Airport, Maine
RCH498 headed for Rota Naval Station, Spain🇪🇸
RAF🇬🇧 A400m ZM419
Bahrain International Airport🇧🇭 to Al Udeid AB, Qatar🇶🇦
Arrived at Bahrain earlier in the evening, and Qatar. (this screenshot was earlier on)
flight currently out of Al Udeid presumably returning to RAF Akotiri, Cyprus🇨🇾
USAF KC-10A 86-0027 as Reach 867 arriving back in the US after a ~4 month long deployment to Al Dhafra AB, UAE. This is my first photo of a KC-10! #ADSB#AE0226