Took the local newspaper to the john with me this morning and came across their community calendar page. It's Armed Forces Week and NAS Key West had a static display going on. Now, I found this at 1130. The Air station is sixty miles down the Keys, Micky hasn't had breakfast, the display is over at 1400, etc. Not only did she want to go, she was enthusiastic about finally getting to see Boca Chica! I really married the right girl.
Got down there with right at 30 minutes left on the schedule. Took lots of pictures, including an aircraft that I not only worked on, but flew as a crewman on. EA-6A Bureau Number 148616 was in VMCJ-1 and VMAQ-2. They've got her painted up as a Navy airplane with a purely bogus modex number of 100. Recon/EW and other combat support types had modexes in the 5-800 range since the fighters were 1-200 and the attack guys 3-400. Incidentally, a -00 airplane was always the skipper's mount.
They brought down a Coast Guard HU-25D Guardian. I worked on the civil version of that one as a Falcon 200. Same basic avionics package, but cheap fabric seats. The CG is getting rid to them finally and going to a slow Spanish-built turboprop CASA 250 soon. Had a nice conversation with the crew.
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