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Aviation Locations and Aircraft Types => Military => Topic started by: Chris Kennedy on December 15, 2011, 03:52:10 PM

Title: Formerly unidentified CH-53
Post by: Chris Kennedy on December 15, 2011, 03:52:10 PM
Obviously a really bad photo. A couple of these flew just south of DVT way up high  at 10 this morning headed ESE. I was just wondering if anybody can identify it. I know it's a CH-53, but it looks like it might have HH on the tail and the only unit I can find that has that ID is a C-17 wing at Hickham Field in Hawaii.
Title: Re: Unidentified CH-53
Post by: Joe Copalman on December 15, 2011, 04:00:15 PM
HMH-366 Hammerheads out of Cherry Point. 
Title: Re: Unidentified CH-53
Post by: Chris Kennedy on December 15, 2011, 04:19:53 PM
Thanks, Joe. I think there was a big exercise at Twentynine Palms recently. I wonder if they were headed home from there.
Title: Re: Formerly unidentified CH-53
Post by: Joe Copalman on December 15, 2011, 04:34:06 PM
Yeah, there was a Mojave Viper exercise that just wrapped up, and prior to that there were quite a few Hammerheads' -53s participating in WTI.