Daily SWF Report 2

Stopped by around 1410L and saw N763BK gliding by the Budget lot & eventually parked/loaded up near the VIP area. Saw several coach buses drop off passengers (assuming cadets?) and taxied via charlie-foxtrot and along 16/34 before cutting off a US RJ with about a 1735L departure.
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N407GC, a Gulf IV owned by General Electric arrived from the Bahamas & departed within 40 minutes for KILG, parking near Ryan.
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Also 9K-AKD parked adjacent to the Richmor Aviation building with caps on. Not sure how long it's been there.
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Somewhat poor quality - merely a 18-55mm and nothing else, but it was good to stop by; chatted with Esther, the 82-year old SWF junkie who (nearly) spots/sits with her lunch on a daily basis at the base of Perimeter Road. I befriended her circa UNGA week, so if you see a little old lady in a silver Camry she's quite the company (in addition to keeping tabs on plane visitors).

Glad you were able to catch the Ryan! It departed to some very random destination in Norway that I have never heard of before.

I was contemplating going out to photograph the arrival, however I'm glad I didn't since the clouds came in and the scheme is pretty bland. I was hoping it would be one of the ex-Delta or ex-Aeromexico birds.

Seems like we have another visitor - an An-124 landed at 1607L on St. Patty's day from TLS as (Polet) POT2011. Anyone have any knowledgeable guesses? Seems like we haven't had any Russian birds up here for quite some time now. May try to stop by later with this awesome light.

Maybe you will have better weather than I did with the Polet AN-124. I always get crappy weather.
I did get a nose wheel landing :) Shot it in 2004 at SWF.
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Senga

Senga with his usual stuff. Nice rain shot. :borat:

Some tidbits from KSWF -

March 12/13th (aka the Redwood diversion debacle):
Sunday morning, caught N239JB which was among the last of several diversions to depart following the monsoon.
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Saturday April 10th:
Some C130A activity, 3 departures within 20 minutes
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N561JB (10th Anniv. Livery, headed to KFLL)
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This came out of right field, as I was getting ready to pack up around 1530L, N311AG - blocked by Gordon P. Getty on FlightAware - came cruising out back from the VIP area and promptly departed (mind the quality, again only with 55mm!). The burgundy pattern on the tail is a little hard to make out, but it's kinda cool up close.
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Enjoy,

- Matt R.

that C-130 doesn't look like an "A" model. in fact, i doubt any are still flying within the US military. hard to tell from the small pic but it looks like a USMC "R", "T", or "J" model.

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Originally Posted by cancidas

that C-130 doesn't look like an "A" model. in fact, i doubt any are still flying within the US military. hard to tell from the small pic but it looks like a USMC "R", "T", or "J" model.

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Per Scramble, from the tail code (NY-3311) it is a KC-130T, BuNo 163311 assigned to VMGR-452. They are a Marine Reserve refueling unit, stationed at Stewart, not visitors.