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Aviation Discussion => Military Aircraft (New & Old) => Topic started by: angry turnip on Mar 30, 2024, 12:48 PM

Title: B-52 off Scotland
Post by: angry turnip on Mar 30, 2024, 12:48 PM
1245 East of Edinburgh at 36000ft is USAF Boeing B-52H Stratofortress 61-0018 heading NW, no callsign AE58A7
      Appeared on trackers near Naples.

1250 It`s decsending, now at 30,000ft,still descending.Lossiemouth perhaps ?  :-\

1309 down to 2400ft , looks to be for runway 23 at Lossiemouth
Title: Re: B-52 off Scotland
Post by: TCX49 on Mar 30, 2024, 01:26 PM
Apparently it was a US P-8 not a B-52
Title: Re: B-52 off Scotland
Post by: angry turnip on Mar 30, 2024, 02:55 PM
Yeah, that would make more sense, but the HEX code AE58A7 is correct for B-52H 61-0018.
I thought it was odd there was just one showing.

After some digging I found it was two US P8`s 168856 and 169002