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Been well over a year since we had the last thread, and the entertainment board has the What Song are you Listening To series.

Lets start this one again! By now, new members have joined, and the people of these forums have surely seen new rare aircraft.

As the title suggests, post and discuss the rarest aircraft you have seen (surely the Vulcan will be a new addition). This also includes rare operators (like John Travolta's 707-138)  ;)

Several new additions for me...

~ An-124 (4x)
~ BAC Canberra
~ C-2 Greyhound
~ EA-6B Prowler
~ E-2C Hawkeye
~ E-4B
~ F/A-18E/F
~ SH-60 Seahawk
~ CASA Aviocar
~ C-121 Super Constellation (under guise of L-1049G, VH-EAG)
~ DC-3 (3x DC-3, 2x C-47?)
~ Me-108 Taifun
~ IL-76 (2x)
~ IL-96 (Putin's transport)
~ IL-68 (8x)
~ Vampire T.11 (2x)
~ CAC Sabre
~ P2V-7 Neptune (3x)
~ PBY Catalina
~ Concorde
~ Dauphin
~ E-170 (company jet)
~ E-190
~ 777-300LR (company jet)
~ 707-138 (John Travolta's)
~ KC-10 (5x)
~ K/C-130E/H/J/
~ P-3 Orion
~ A380-800 (FW-WOW)
~ L-39 Albatros
~ MiG 15
~ C-17 Globemaster III
~ C-37 (2x, Gulfstream, auxiliary presidential)
~ C-32 (with and without winglets)
~ C-40 Clipper (4x)
~ VC-25A
~ Iron Maiden's 757-200
~ DeHavilland Drover
~ Fi-103 (V1)
~ DeHavilland Mosquito
~ Cessna 337
~ Yak-52 (2x)
~ L1011 Tristar (2x, one civillian one tanker)
~ Shorts Belfast
~ JASDF 747-400
~ CC-150 Polaris
~ French Marines Dassault Falcon 10
~ Janet 737-200

Worlds only Merlin powered P-40.



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~ C-47 Dakota (5x)

Rare?!

The Vulcan...  :)

CP-140 or WAH-64D's (rare for some but i see the latter all the flaming time )

Still the DC-2

Any at Old Warden. Take your pick, although highlights today included the Fieseler Storch, a B2, and a very naked Bleriot and Spitfire.

The C-47 is far from rare...

Well, same as last time, only airworthy SB2C Helldiver in the world.

To add to that, Sino Swearingen Jet (pretty neat business jet, saw it and it's creator).

Mig-15 (Randy Ball, great pilot!)
T-33
Martin 4-0-4 (rare? I think so, not sure though)


Cool aircraft I've seen lately include a Staggerwing, Waco biplane, and a Cessna 180 Skywagon

Cool aircraft I've seen lately include a ... ... Waco biplane,

Doug and I saw one of them today. Doug had his camera with him too, so there may be a photo or two.

--Antonov An-124 (x2 at once!)

--Aerona Scout (one of only about a half dozen in the world)

--Partenavia P-68 Observer (now a regular at the airport I fly out of, but hard to come by anywhere else...)

--A bunch of warbirds at the Reading, Pennsylvania World War II weekend, including the brilliant Avro Lancaster (the Canadian Heritage Flight one)!

--Fouga Magister

--Britten-Norman BN-2 Islander

--TBM Avenger & Vought F4U-A1 Corsair (besides at Reading)

--CH-46 Sea Knight

--The United States Presidential Boeing 747.
(Uses the international airport near me for landing/approach practice quite often. Thus causing the plane to fly over my neighborhood on its downwind leg quite a bit. Happened again today too!)

--THE Howard 500 (exploring an airport near where my relatives live. Went in a hanger and there it was, THE real-life Howard 500 that Milton Shupe created his masterpeice from!)

...there are probably a bunch more, including a lot of time with a specific aero-medical Eurocopter AS365N3 Dauphin II helicopter....

I also get a few more aircraft that are common for me to see, but rare for most other people. May post more later.

Eh, how could I forget a VC-25...

Jake, its not that often that you find a C-47 in Australia, trust me. You aren't going to walk to YSSY and find a DC-3/C-47 parked in the GA section.

And, some CASA Aviocars that are used for Antarctic operations.

NH-2 Nightengale (variant of the DGA-15) and I got to fly it!
BT-13
Sikorsky S-39
Cessna C-37
Travel Air 2000
B-29(got to clean it)
Queen Air (kind of rare)
Laird Swallow

Jake, its not that often that you find a C-47 in Australia, trust me.

I beg to differ.

C-47s in Australia

Now, see how many different registrations you will find in NSW. I have seen the two in Wollongong, one DC-3 painted as a D-Day C-47, one DC-3 converted as a restaurant area (with wings, and engines!) for McDonald's in WA, and one more DC-3 that I saw on my first flight (and never saw again) in Bankstown.