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Bluewave 707 From United States of America, joined Jun 2001, 3139 posts, RR: 8
Posted (1 year 7 months 2 weeks 1 day 23 hours ago) and read 2653 times:

Has anyone seen the Missile Defense Agency fleet park at civilian airports? They often do at HNL ...

Why arenʻt they parking at HIK?

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ThePointblank From Canada, joined Jan 2009, 1065 posts, RR: 0
Reply 1, posted (1 year 7 months 2 weeks 1 day 21 hours ago) and read 2628 times:

Quoting Bluewave 707 (Thread starter):
Has anyone seen the Missile Defense Agency fleet park at civilian airports? They often do at HNL ...

Why arenʻt they parking at HIK?

If you are talking about Hickam AFB, it's the same plot of land as HNL.

bennett123 From United Kingdom, joined Aug 2004, 6359 posts, RR: 1
Reply 2, posted (1 year 7 months 2 weeks 1 day 21 hours ago) and read 2625 times:

What aircraft do they use?.

rfields5421 From United States of America, joined Jul 2007, 6150 posts, RR: 25
Reply 3, posted (1 year 7 months 2 weeks 1 day 18 hours ago) and read 2575 times:

There are a couple secured ramps on the HNL side of the airport which can be used for US government / DOD aircraft when parking on the HIK ramps is not available.

Sometimes the US govt aircraft use the HNL ramps because they get the same parking spots all the time, while at HIK they would be transient aircraft and park at different locations.

Which aircraft are you seeing? The Kwajalein support aircraft, or the ALTB?

bennett123 From United Kingdom, joined Aug 2004, 6359 posts, RR: 1
Reply 4, posted (1 year 7 months 2 weeks 1 day 16 hours ago) and read 2541 times:

iirc, there was an Air india B747-200, which was converted into a test bed.

Does it still exist, or was it scrapped.

ZANL188 From United States of America, joined Oct 2006, 3248 posts, RR: 0
Reply 5, posted (1 year 7 months 2 weeks 1 day 15 hours ago) and read 2504 times:

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Quoting bennett123 (Reply 4):
iirc, there was an Air india B747-200, which was converted into a test bed.

Does it still exist, or was it scrapped.

Never flyable as a testbed. Used as part of ground lab. Test completed, airframe disposed of.

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bennett123 From United Kingdom, joined Aug 2004, 6359 posts, RR: 1
Reply 6, posted (1 year 7 months 2 weeks 1 day 12 hours ago) and read 2435 times:

Many thanks.

More research revealed this.

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Bluewave 707 From United States of America, joined Jun 2001, 3139 posts, RR: 8
Reply 7, posted (1 year 7 months 2 weeks 1 day 1 hour ago) and read 2278 times:

They were 2 G-IIIs (N74A and N178B) and a DC-10 (N910SF) that were here for the last test at Barking Sands ...

"The best use of your life will be to so live your life, that the use of your life will outlive your life" -- D Severn

ha763 From United States of America, joined Jan 2003, 3492 posts, RR: 6
Reply 8, posted (1 year 7 months 2 weeks ago) and read 2139 times:

Quoting rfields5421 (Reply 3):
There are a couple secured ramps on the HNL side of the airport which can be used for US government / DOD aircraft when parking on the HIK ramps is not available.

There are no restricted access ramp areas on the HNL side. All the hard stands have access roads that everyone needs to drive through to reach other areas of the airport or common use facilities.

If you are talking about the ramp area by the golf course, that is still part of HIK.

Bluewave 707 From United States of America, joined Jun 2001, 3139 posts, RR: 8
Reply 9, posted (1 year 7 months 1 week 6 days 5 hours ago) and read 2064 times:

The MDA birds used FedEx GPUs and a local FBO for their ground handling ...
Is it because they have US N-numbers and not military registrations?

"The best use of your life will be to so live your life, that the use of your life will outlive your life" -- D Severn

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