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Feb 14, 2023, 12 tweets

๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ #RCAF CC-177 Globemaster III (4/5, 80% โœ…)

โ€ฃ 177701 flew from Trenton to Ottawa to Whitehorse on 2023-02-12 presumably related to the ๐ŸŽˆ
โ€ฃ 177704 seems to be out of comission at #CFBTrenton, it hasn't flown in over a month.

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#8WingTrenton #429Sqn

๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ #RCAF CC-150 Polaris (4/5, 80% โœ…)

โ€ฃ 15002 is still going through some stuff at Mirabel, possibly out of commission for months.

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#437Sqn #8WingTrenton

๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ #RCAF CC-144C/D Challenger (4/4, 100% โœ…)

โ€ฃ 144618 may be out for maintenance. They haven't flown in just ten days, but the pace of the rest is frantic.

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#412Sqn #8WingTrenton

๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ #RCAF CP-140 Aurora (7/14, 50% โš ๏ธ)

โ€ฃ Operational aircraft are located at:
#CFBComox (2)
#Hawaii ๐Ÿ–๏ธ (1)
#CFBGreenwood (4)
โ€ฃ None in #Keflavik ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ธ for GIUK gap patrols.
โ€ฃ 50% of the fleet doesn't fly ๐Ÿ‘€

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#404Sqn #405Sqn #407Sqn

It did cross my mind that someone at @Boeing should be paying me a lot of money to remind the public of how many CP-140 Aurora aircraft actually work; 5 of them haven't flown in 2023. I'm publishing unclassified ammunition for their slide deck justifying a big P-8A Poseidon sale.

TBF, they do the best they can.

๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ #RCAF CC-130J Hercules (13/17, 76% โœ…)

โ€ฃ 130601, 130604, 130606 make up ATF-P ๐Ÿด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ณ๓ ฃ๓ ด๓ ฟ
โ€ฃ 130608, 130610, 130611 have been flying down South on exercises recently.
โ€ฃ 130611 flew #407Sqn's gitch home to #19WingComox from #OpCARIBBE.

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#436Sqn #8WingTrenton

๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ #RCAF CC-130H Hercules (9/12, 75% โœ…)

โ€ฃ Distribution for operational fixed wing SAR, etc:
#CFBComox (2)
#CFBGreenwood (2)
#CFBWinnipeg (2)
#CFBTrenton (2)

โ€ฃ Whitehorse, Yukon (1) ๐ŸŽˆ

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#413Sqn #424Sqn #426Sqn #435Sqn

๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ #RCAF CH-149 Cormorant (9/13, 69% โš ๏ธ)

Last I checked less than half the fleet could fly; huge improvement.

โ€ฃ Distribution for SAR, etc:
#CFBGreenwood (3)
#CFBGander (2)
#CFBComox (3)

โ€ฃ Whitehorse ๐ŸŽˆ (1)

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#103Sqn #413Sqn #442Sqn

A Billion dollar contract sure greases the wheels and gets things done... (Published 2022-12-23)

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Do I even want to look up the CC-295 Kingfisher numbers and see how they're doing? Can I put lipstick on this ๐Ÿท?

๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ #RCAF CC-295 Kingfisher (0/16, 0% โš ๏ธ)

โ€ฃ I went back through the data to Q4-2022
โ€ฃ At least 4 ADS-B transponders are being used from their allocated Mode-S block in Comox.
โ€ฃ Several in San Pablo, Spain

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