Thread by @steffanwatkins

🇨🇦 #RCAF CC-177 Globemaster III (4/5, 80% ✅)

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

globe.adsbexchange.com/?icao=c2b3ff,c…
#8WingTrenton #429Sqn

🇨🇦 #RCAF CC-150 Polaris (4/5, 80% ✅)

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

globe.adsbexchange.com/?icao=c2b355,c…
#437Sqn #8WingTrenton

🇨🇦 #RCAF CC-144C/D Challenger (4/4, 100% ✅)

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

globe.adsbexchange.com/?icao=c2b369,c…
#412Sqn #8WingTrenton

🇨🇦 #RCAF CP-140 Aurora (7/14, 50% ⚠️)

‣ Operational aircraft are located at:
#CFBComox (2)
#Hawaii 🏖️ (1)
#CFBGreenwood (4)
‣ None in #Keflavik 🇮🇸 for GIUK gap patrols.
‣ 50% of the fleet doesn't fly 👀

globe.adsbexchange.com/?icao=c2b1a7,c…
#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.

https://twitter.com/RCAFOperations/status/1625564027173707777?s=20

🇨🇦 #RCAF CC-130J Hercules (13/17, 76% ✅)

‣ 130601, 130604, 130606 make up ATF-P 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
‣ 130608, 130610, 130611 have been flying down South on exercises recently.
‣ 130611 flew #407Sqn's gitch home to #19WingComox from #OpCARIBBE.

globe.adsbexchange.com/?icao=c2b52b,c…
#436Sqn #8WingTrenton

🇨🇦 #RCAF CC-130H Hercules (9/12, 75% ✅)

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

‣ Whitehorse, Yukon (1) 🎈

globe.adsbexchange.com/?icao=c2af4f,c…
#413Sqn #424Sqn #426Sqn #435Sqn

🇨🇦 #RCAF CH-149 Cormorant (9/13, 69% ⚠️)

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

‣ Distribution for SAR, etc:
#CFBGreenwood (3)
#CFBGander (2)
#CFBComox (3)

‣ Whitehorse 🎈 (1)

globe.adsbexchange.com/?icao=c2b0fd,c…
#103Sqn #413Sqn #442Sqn

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

leonardo.com/en/press-relea…

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

🇨🇦 #RCAF CC-295 Kingfisher (0/16, 0% ⚠️)

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

globe.adsbexchange.com/?icao=c2b0fd,c…