Prestwick Morning

A quick trip down to Prestwick today for the Turkish A400 18-0094, first visit to Prestwick for this type in Turkish service. There were a few nice other bits and pieces there, KC135, KC10 and C5 from the USAF.

We had a UAE C17 and an AN-12, with the GAF Tonka still broken and on Royal Navy front there was a Merlin HAS2 out for a bit of sun bathing – they ran it up for 15 minutes and shut it down again. I suspect the crew heard the erie call of the greater spotted egg banjo with coffee, I decided to say that because people seem to make up their own mind about this sort of stuff.

As a follow up to the COP 26 post a few days ago, there seem to be a total of 46 aircraft booked between Glasgow, Edinburgh and Prestwick. With 28 of those being booked at Prestwick, anyway time will tell on that front.

There is a Gallery of nine shots with this post, as usual at Prestwick with stuff going out on 12 in the morning – the light could be better. But what is in the Gallery is what I got before the rain stopped play.

As days at prestwick go it was a pretty good day, not like the days of Prestwicks heyday but not too bad nonetheless. It isn’t that often that there are so many older bits of kit on the ground, so you have to make the effort to get down and see events like this one.

I was nice to have a catch up with some of the other spotters, so all in all a good day.