Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport
89th FTS "Banshees"
Euro-NATO Joint Pilot Training
<a href="http://www.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123161483">SHEPPARD AIR FORCE BASE, Texas</a>
The last seven T-37 Tweets in the Air Force inventory took off one final time July 31 as part of the aircraft's retirement ceremony. Four of the aircraft will make the journey to the Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Group at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Ariz., while the final three will go to the Utah Test and Training Range in Utah.
Two of the three that passed through Willie last week en route to Hill AFB where they're supposedly going to become range markers or targets or something like that. Glad I had the opportunity to catch them:
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Don't ask me to explain it ('cause I can't) but there was a T-37 in the pattern over D-M this morning around 11:30, I saw it do two circuits before landing and despite driving like crazy I couldn't get a shot.
:'(
Could be one of the ones that's going to Colombia on a check flight or sumpfin like that.
I'd thought about FMS but got busy with some photos and plum forgot to look it up.
Tweet on final after check ride at D-M.
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A pair of Randolph T-37's waiting for their spot in the "boneyard"...
Taken in 2007.