Aircraft Tail Codes

[rmorse]

Saw this and thought it was interesting...I love seeing all the different tail codes!

 

[stgislander]

As a ship guy, that's all Greek to me.

 

[nutz]

The Aircraft of Northern Watch​

Mission
US
Turkey
Britain
Combat
1 F-16CJ. Suppression of enemy air defenses.

2 F-15C. Air superiority.

3 F-16CG. Emergency defense suppression.

4 F-15E. Emergency defense suppression.

Combat Support
5 EA-6B. Electronic jamming.

6 KC-135. Air refueling.

10 Jaguar, Reconnaissance

7 HH-60G helicopter. Combat search and rescue.

11 VC-10K. Air regueling for Jaguars and EA-6Bs

8 M/K/HC-130. Tankers to refuel the helicopters

9 EP-3 or RC-135. Signals intelligence.

Command, control, and
Communications
12 E-3B/C Airborne Warning and Control System.

Combat service support
13 C-12. Theater transport.

14 Also shown is a Patriot missile unit from the US Army, which became part of Northern Watch for a short time when Iraq threatened to attack neighboring coalition countries

 

[black dog]

If only working girls made it so easy....#sadface

 

[Rommey]

U.S.A.F Tail Codes

 

[Monello]

LL = VP-30, NASJAX, FL. Most likely a training bird.

 

[WingsOfGold]

Vintage stuff, early 70's Bravo model CAG3 (Alpha Charlie) aboard Saratoga. The E-2 was first introduced to the fleet in 1964, it will easily see 75 years of service.

 

[limblips]

Vintage stuff, early 70's Bravo model CAG3 (Alpha Charlie) aboard Saratoga. The E-2 was first introduced to the fleet in 1964, it will easily see 75 years of service.

Still in production as the E-2D. In flight refueling capability being introduced. Easily another 30-40 years of service.

 

[WingsOfGold]

Still in production as the E-2D. In flight refueling capability being introduced. Easily another 30-40 years of service.

Amazing, when I was in them the price tag was somewhere around 18 million a copy, that and the Viggie were the most expensive birds o the ship NOW over 170 million! Many years ago I had a kid working for me in a C131 squadron, he went OCS and became skipper of both 126 then 120. I'd say he did rather well for himself.
Hydraulics nightmare at the time, doubt that's changed a lot but the T-56's just kept hummin.