Quick visit to Prestwick yesterday to catch the two Huron’s before they headed westbound accross the pond, to find that it was a bit like USAF Prestwick. There were already a couple of C-17’s and a couple of KC-135’s, and just after the second Huron took off – we were graced with a third KC-135.
Reminiscent of the 1970’s to some extent, when there was even a MATS desk in the Prestwick terminal. It has been a pretty good year all in all for stuff staging through Prestwick, both east and westbound. There is a Turkish Airforce A400 and a C-130 due today, but they have been due a number of times over the past week.
The place was busy yesterday, I’d say that there were around 40 or 50 spotters there. The weather was pretty fair, although not that great for photography – Grey on Grey never is that good.
Over the next few weeks I think that there will be a number of movements through Prestwick, with stuff that is returned from Afganistan – on the assumptions that the US forces managed to extract the equipment.
On the stuff in Prestwick, here’s a quick Military log – well most of it;
60-0333 KC135R
00-0181 C17
62-3512 KC135R
02-1112 C17
09-0662 MC12
09-0686 MC12
58-0045 KC135T