Monday, 30 June 2003 CAPs were flown for protection of the President during his trip to Miami and Tampa Florida today. The Air Force One back-up plane was staged at Patrick during the late afternoon and evening. I will be uploading some of my recent aircraft pictures to my website, but will delay...

If you are monitoring Mil action in Florida you had a huge day yesterday (Wednesday) and will have an even better one today. Yesterday there were multiple AWACS acft controlling fighters in the Tarpon Range near Key West, in addition to the normal action at the other ranges and in the offshore...

Friday, 9 Apr 2004 DARKSTAR QUEBEC: E-3 AWACS, Tinker AFB. 9:15am: Gets radar correlation, position relative to MARCI, near Tarpon. Later works with MAKO and SHARK flights of F-15s out of Homestead. "Will you be Hydra or Tarpon today?" "Will there be RDR on control freq today?" 10:37am; Re BOLT...

Tuesday 27 Apr 2004 TERRA 5: JSTARS Northrop-Grumman Ground Sta, Melbourne FL 5:55am: Comms with Wizard (JSTARS 04 back-end crew) re the "dumping of all the loads on the crypto stuff." NASA 4: G-1159 Gulfstream II, NASA-KSC. 7:05am: Departs Patrick to Washington National. 6:45pm: Lands Patrick.

Wednesday, 28 Apr 2004 BOLT 22: KC-135R MacDill 6AMW 12:42am: 25 min out from MacDill AFB. BOLT 31: KC-135R MacDill 6AMW 8:30am: Comms with MacDill's Lightning Ops.

Saturday, 1 May 2004 GUNFIGHTER 12: F-14D, Oceana NAS VF-101 "Grim Reapers" 9:40am: Area transition northward, FL 270. GUNFIGHTER 15: F-14D, Oceana NAS VF-101 "Grim Reapers" 10:08am: Area transition northward, e/r Oceana.

Sixty years after their B-17 plane went down in Belgium, the radio operator/gunner on that plane will join two of his crewmates in ceremonies near the site of the March 4, 1944 crash. AL STERN Satellite Beach FL ======================== World War II veteran to revisit site of crash. Belgium teens...

11175.0 SIGONELLA HF-GCS: 0410z USB wkg CACTI 42 (KC-10A, Travis AFB 60ARW) for phone patch to DSN 650-3992 McGuire AFB Metro for wx their station at 0715z. (9/Aug/2004) (ALS) 11175.0 SIGONELLA HF-GCS: 0415z USB wkg REACH 9060 (C-17A, McChord AFB 62AW) for phone patch; CACTI 42 hears, SIGONELLA...

KING 24, KING 70 and KING 76, all Patrick AFB C-130s, are one their way to Nashville. Most likely this is their evacuation to avoid the brunt of the storms heading to Florida. They have been advised to contact Nashville Ops on 322.9 when 15 minutes out to assure crew transportation. AL STERN ...

CNN is reporting this morning that the US Mil is about to deploy U-2 spy planes, JSTARS acft, and Rivet Joint RC-135s to search for bin Laden. They claim that the US is going to maintain round-the-clock surveillance/search to locate him. They say the acft will be controlling some RPVs in the...

Patrick AFB, NASA-KSC Area Log - Tuesday 09 March 2004 Several AWACS acft worked many many fighters all day long, multiple tankers serviced the aircraft; it was possible to only log some of the endless activity. All the inland ranges and offshore areas were active. For the second consecutive day,...

It looks like it will be another very busy day with COMPTUEX action. I am hearing: BLUETAIL 40 (E-2C), BLUETAIL 41 (E-2C), CAT (F/A-18s), RIPPER (F-14s), SCOUT (S-3Bs), DOG (F-14s), HAWK (F/A-18s), LONGHORN 27 (S-3B?)

Patrick AFB, NASA-KSC Area Log - Wednesday, 21 Jan 2004 NASA 4: G-1159 Gulfstream II, NASA-KSC, Florida 9:05am: Departs Patrick to DCA. CG 6018: HH-60J Jayhawk Helo, CGAS-Clearwater 9:05am: Low approach at Patrick, then works offshore with USCG boat. 12:03pm: Arrives at Patrick for fueling.

Subj: Patrick AFB Area Log - Saturday 7 Feb 2004 GATOR 81: F/A-18C, Atlanta NAS VMFA-142 "Flying Gators" Sqdn. 8:15am: Departs to Atlanta NAS (Dobbins). CG 6016: HH-60J Jayhawk Helo, CGAS-Clearwater FL 8:48am: On SAR mission east of Patrick AFB. 9:20am: RTBs Clearwater.

Subj: Patrick AFB, NASA-KSC Area Log - Mon. 9 Feb 2004 COIL 01: F-15C, FL-ANG Jacksonville IAP 125FW 159FS "Jaguars" 9:25am: En route Homestead JARB. NASA 963: T-38N #59-1603, NASA-Johnson Space Ctr, Houston. 9:49am: Lands NASA-KSC Shuttle Landing Facility, Rnwy 33.

The callsign of the Patrick AFB Command Post is MAYAAP. Can anyone tell me what that means or how it got that callsign? AL STERN Satellite Beach FL

Sunday 7 March 2004 TONTO 63: T-1A, Randolph 12FTW 9:40am: Dep Patrick to Hooks Memorial A/p, Houston. PAT 996: US Army Priority Air Transport 9:45am: Area transition, southbound.

Monday, 8 March 2004 More of the same: transports to/from Haiti, several US Army personnel transport flights, tankers heading toward NAS Key West. Fewer Dutch F-16s being heard, now that some of them have moved on to Nellis AFB. Lotsa NASA acft coming and going, including STA (Shuttle Training...

The Military is conducting fairly large exercises offshore northern Florida today, and comms can be heard all over the 225-400 MHz range. Beginning at 8:14am EST (1314z), AWACS "Darkstar Quebec" was up with Sealord on 267.5 announcing the acft he would be controlling. First, there was a four-ship...

Many (and perhaps ALL) of the Hurricane Hunter acft are being Hurricane-Evacuated from Keesler AFB to Homestead JARB. They will operate their missions from Homestead. They are definitely not strangers to that base. AL STERN Satellite Beach FL