Deployment
- (Exercise Name) |
Deployment
Base (Country) |
Deployment
Dates |
| CRESTED
CAP |
Hahn
AB (West
Germany) |
6
MARCH - 5 APRIL 1974 |
| Wing/Squadron
(Base/Command) |
Aircraft
Type (Number Deployed) |
Tailcode
(colour) |
49
TFW/417 TFS
(Holloman AFB, Tactical Air Command) |
F-4D (26) |
HO (Unknown
- except where noted) |
| stagger Deployed
Aircraft Serials (Colour) [notes] |
stagger 65-0617[4] 65-0625
65-0679[4] 65-0695
65-0716[4] 65-0719[4] 65-0730
65-0743 65-0791 66-0226 66-0259 66-0270[1] 66-7519(bl)[3][4]
stagger 66-7577 66-7617 66-7649(multi)[3][4] 66-7710[3] 66-7721 66-7730[1] 66-7737[4] 66-7745[4] 66-7754[3] 66-8824[3] 66-7465
stagger 66-7701[2] 66-7724[2] |
| Further
Info |
|
|
|
Officially
attached to 50 TFW/USAFE 5 March – 5 April.
[1] Departed
18/3/74 [2] Arrived 17/3/74 [3] transferred
to 50 TFW.
[4] These diverted to Lakenheath
6 March along with two unidentified others. 4
more were reported diverting to Lajes AB, Azores, with 10 successfully
arriving at Hahn. |
| |
Deployment
- (Exercise Name) |
Deployment
Base (Country) |
Deployment
Dates |
| CRESTED
CAP |
Bitburg
AB (West
Germany) |
2
APRIL - 3 MAY 1974 |
| Wing/Squadron
(Base/Command) |
Aircraft
Type (Number Deployed) |
Tailcode
(colour) |
49
TFW/7 TFS
(Holloman AFB, Tactical Air Command) |
F-4D (27) |
HO (Unknown) |
| stagger Deployed
Aircraft Serials (Colour)
[notes] |
stagger 64-0949
65-0585 65-0598 65-0603 65-0629 65-0638 65-0639 65-0768 66-0257 66-0266
66-0276 66-7464 66-7470 66-7488
stagger 66-7558[1] 66-7580 66-7582 66-7614[1] 66-7650
66-7660 66-7693 66-7726 66-7739 66-7772 66-7699[2] 66-0251
66-7728 |
| Further
Info |
|
|
|
Officially
attached to 36 TFW/USAFE 2 April –3 May.
[1] Transferred to 50
TFW, departed 6 April (Presumably to
Hahn) [2] Transferred
from 50 TFW, arrived 5 April (Presumably
from Hahn) |
| |
Deployment
- (Exercise Name) |
Deployment
Base (Country) |
Deployment
Dates |
| CREEK
BEE III |
Ramstein
AB (West
Germany) |
6
MAY - 4 JUNE 1974 |
| Wing/Squadron
(Base/Command) |
Aircraft
Type (Number Deployed) |
Tailcode
(colour) |
67
TRW/12 TRS
(Bergstrom AFB, Tactical Air Command) |
RF-4C (18) |
BA (Unknown
- except where noted) |
| stagger Deployed
Aircraft Serials (Colour)
[notes] |
stagger 66-0408
66-0453 66-0454 67-0431 67-0432 67-0433 67-0434 67-0435 67-0436(wh)
stagger 67-0438 67-0452
68-0548 68-0583 68-0587
69-0359 71-0250 71-0253 72-0148 |
| Further
Info |
|
|
|
Officially
attached 86 TFW/USAFE 5 May - 4 June.
Arrived using Sense 01-06, 11-16, 21-26 Callsigns. Some
possibly detached to Zweibrücken AB during deployment. |
| |
|
ffffffffffffffffff Getting
it's 'Last Chance' checks at Ramstein AB, May 1974 is 67 TRW RF-4C
67-0436. This was the last fffffffffffffffffffffff'Creek
Bee' exercise,by 1975 it had been renamed 'Salty Bee'.
ffffffffffffffffffffff © Unknown/Via
Michael Beier/Peter Greengrass Collection |
| |
Deployment
- (Exercise Name) |
Deployment
Base (Country) |
Deployment
Dates |
| CORONET
VIKING |
Bodø (Norway) |
7
JUNE -14 JUNE 1974 |
| Wing/Squadron
(Base/Command) |
Aircraft
Type (Number Deployed) |
Tailcode
(colour) |
4
TFW/335 TFS
(Seymour-Johnson AFB, Tactical Air Command) |
F-4E (22) |
SJ (none) |
| stagger Deployed
Aircraft Serials (Colour)
[notes] |
stagger 72-0126
72-0134 72-0136 72-0140[1] 72-0142[1] 72-0144
72-0160 72-0161 72-0162 72-0165 72-0166
stagger 72-1407
72-1477 72-1478[1] 72-1479
72-1482 72-1483 72-1484 72-1485 72-1486 72-1489 72-1490 |
| Further
Info |
|
|
|
| [1] Departed
to CONUS 9 June. |
| |
Deployment - (Exercise Name) |
Deployment Base (Country) |
Deployment Dates |
| NOT ASSIGNED |
Spangdahlem AB (West Germany) |
30 AUGUST - 23 OCTOBER 1974 |
| Wing/Squadron (Base/Command) |
Aircraft Type (Number Deployed) |
Tailcode (colour) |
24 AD/17 DSES
(Malmstrom AFB , Air Defense Command) |
EB-57E (5) |
- (none) |
| stagger Deployed Aircraft Serials (Colour) [notes] |
| stagger 55-4263 55-4278 55-4288 55-4293 55-4295 |
| Further Info |
|
|
|
| Officially attached to 52 TFW/USAFE. Arrived via Keflavik and RAF Upper Heyford as Bimbo 21-25 on 29 August . Departed via RAF Lossiemouth. |
| |
Deployment
- (Exercise Name) |
Deployment
Base (Country) |
Deployment
Dates |
| UNKNOWN
or NOT ASSIGNED |
Ramstein
AB* (West
Germany) |
ca.
SEPTEMBER 1974 |
| Wing/Squadron
(Base/Command) |
Aircraft
Type (Number Deployed) |
Tailcode
(colour) |
Joint
Test Force/MDD
(Edwards AFB, Air Force Systems Command) |
TF-15A (1) |
- (none) |
| stagger Deployed
Aircraft Serials (Colour)
[notes] |
| stagger 71-0291 |
| Further
Info |
|
|
|
*
Was noted here 22 September.
It was also present at RAE Farnborough from 1-8 September. |
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|
ffffffffffffffffff TF-15A
71-0291 photographed at Ramstein AB, 22 September. This was the first
visit by 71-0291 but by no
fffffffffffffFFFfffff means the last, it visited Europe on at
least three more occasions, 1975, 1976 & 1980.
ffffffffffffffffffffff © Gerhard
W Joos/Via Peter Steinemann/Peter Greengrass Collection. |
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