Japan Air show autumn 2016 round up - Misawa

1. MISAWA Air Festival Sep 11

 

Misawa AB is located on the outskirts of the town, in Aomori Prefecture northern Honshu.  It is home to the 35^th FW US Air Force operating the F-16CM, the 3^rd and 8^th Hikotai JASDF with Mitsubishi F-2A/B’s and the 601 Hikotai operating E-2C’s.  It also houses an US Navy facility. A small civil air terminal is located at the eastern end of the airfield. A selection of images from the static and flying is attached below.

entrance to the US facility



an F-2 being towed to a QRA shelter

EA-18G Growler US Navy from VAQ138 ‘NL512’

MH-53E US Navy HM-14 ‘BJ554’

4 x F-16CM of 35FW ‘WW’ fly by

RQ-4B Global Hawk 08-2034 ‘GF’ 248RS 9^th RS
(Guam Detachment)

The T-4’s of the Blue Impulse performed



91505 KC-135R of Tennessee ANG landing RW28

F-2 on take off

base operations office

Thanks to GAFLIKS for providing this report.