RAF Mildenhall – April

HH-60G Pave Hawk unloading from AN-124 #1	HH-60G Pave Hawk unloading from AN-124 #2	HH-60G Pave Hawk unloading from AN-124 #3

AN-124 RA-82078 #1	AN-124 RA-82078 #2	AN-124 RA-82078 #3

RAF Mildenhall Visitors

The local assets and visiting tankers have been quiet recently but a number of interesting visitors more than made up for it. Flying as REACH 1005 returning back to the US the AC-130U Spooky dropped into RAF Mildenhall for a night stop. He departed the next day but was forced to return with communication issues. Flying as SNOOP 55 was a rare RC-135W Rivet Joint (most of these are the V variant) also night stopping before flying East.

USAF AC-130U 89-0510 Spooky – REACH 1005	USAF RC-135W Rivet Joint 62-4131 – Snoop 55

A KC-10 flying as Gold 41 made it in seconds before a heavy rain shower came down with passengers and cargo for the base. The final interesting visitor was a Turkish C-130E Herk who had been hangared for a few days at RAF Mildenhall with a fault. When he left on the 22nd May he was sporting one white engine which would suggest that had been replaced. The Turkish have a C-130E in Turkish Stars white paint scheme and I would guess that airframe was used to donate the engine to this one to get it home.

USAF KC-10 83-0081 – Gold 41	Turkish C-130E 71-1468