What Military aircraft have you flown on?

[maverick55]

Ive been lucky enough to get on a number of flights (as a civi) with the RNZAF (Royal New Zealand Air Force). Been on a couple of Herc flights, the old 727 when they were still in service, Hueys, King Airs (same aircraft our Prime Minister and other VIPs get flown around NZ in) and a couple of times on Orions. The most memorable was an Orion flight where the Captain let me jump in the right hand seat and take the controlls for about 10 mins.

So just wondering what military aircraft others have flown on (as a civilian)??

[a78jumper]

As a civy, none, but as a military member..

The Canadian ones:

CC-137 aka 707-347C
CC-150 Polaris aka 310-300
CC130E Hercules
CC130H Hercules
CH135 Twin Huey
CH136 Kiowa
CH147 Chinook
Griffon aka Bell 412
CC115 Buffalo
CC138 Twin Otter
CC142 Dash 8

and others:

KC130 Hercules (USMC)
C141B Starlifter(USAF)
Pilatus Porter (Swiss)
C130B Hercules (USAF/National Guard)
C130H Hercules (USAF and USN)
Single Huey (Maine Army National Guard)
C9 Nightengale (USAF)
Bell 412 (Slovenian Army)
RAF Balloon type unknown

[uy707]

Nice lists you both, mine limits to a couple of rides on French airforce when on draft in '75
Nord Aviation 2501 "Noratlas"
Max Holste Broussard.
Alain

[SGTD]

Here's my list as a Miltary Soldier:

US AIRFORCE
C-17
C-130
C-5

US ARMY
UH-60 Blackhawk
Chinook

MAC FLIGHTS

WORLD AIRWAYS MD-11'S 279, 272 NUMUROUS TIMES
CHAMPION AIRWAYS VARIOUS 727'S
MAMI AIRWAYS 727'S AND 737'S
DELTA 767
UNITED 777
NORTH AMERICAN AIRWAYS 767'S DON'T REMEBER THE REG'S
NWA 747


THATS IT I'VE FLOWN AROUND THE WORLD AND ON NUMROUS MILTARY FLIGHTS, MY NEXT ONE WILL BE BACK TO KUWAIT KEEP YA POSTED!

[uy707]

^Also a nice list

[Moose135]

Haven't flown on any as a civilian (unless you count my AFROTC days). As an AF pilot, I've flown:

T-37
T-38
KC-135 (A/D/RT Models)
EC-135

I've also flown on:

AT-38B
C-130
C-141
UH-1D (USAF SAR)

[herpa2003]

I'm not in the military, but have flown on the following military flights as a civilian:

USAF C-141 McChord AFB-HNL
USAF C-141 HNL-McChord AFB

French Air Force Twin Otter MFO North Camp (Sinai, Egypt)-Sharm el Sheikh (this a/c later crashed with numerous lives lost)

I was also lucky enough to sit in a UH-1 Huey during engine run-ups and also logged 2 hours of UH-60 Blackhawk full motion simulator time at Fort Bragg

AMC flights:

World Airways DC-10 x2
World Airways MD-11

[Crunk415balla]

None as of yet, but if I do, it had better be as a civilian.

[trooper]

As a civilian... None..


As a member of the RAN....


Multi engine
Fixed wing:

DHC-9 Caribou
C-130A
C-130H
HS748
C-141
GAF Nomad
C-160 (?) Transall (Indonesian AF/Merpati??))
Stretched C-130 (..".........".....)
Casa 212 (..".........".....)


Single engine
Fixed wing:

Pilatus Porter
Skyhawk A4-T



Rotary wing:

Bell 206
UH-1H Iroquois
Westland Wessex
S70-B-2 Seahawk
AS350 B
Chinook
Sea King

The bolded ones are the ones I didn't jump out of!!!!

[uy707]

Interesting list
Some profiling
C.160s = I bet on PELITA, as neither the TNi-AN nor Merpati had them in the inventory.
They took up two aircrafts delivered new I guess
C.130-H30
If windowless typical ones, bet the farm on TNI-AN (the airforce)
If with windows, ahaha, you flew then on a very rare bird in the shapes of one of the two ever operated by MERPATI Nunsantara
CN-212, the most challenging as everybody mentioned had them on fleet inventory one day or another !

[trooper]

Sorry I was a bit light on for technical details.... during those years my concerns were:

- how fast the a/c would reach jump height,
- how high it would take us (17,000 AGL in Indonesia - 75 seconds in freefall per jump!! In the Hercs at least)
- and whether or not it had a tail ramp..... nothing like those for exiting!

Just checked my photos - and sure enough the Transall was painted in civilian trim.. white with some red stripe add-ons...

I beleive the CASA's were locally built under license?

The stretched Hercs were IIRC obtained from the UK - or modified there at least... we did one jump with a second a/c in formation - it had an IMAX camera filming out the side door....

Took 120 jumpers per sortie in those.......and on the last jump of the day (The "sunset load") we'd fly at 12,000 above Kuta Beach... and groups would get out in an order based on which hotel they were staying at... we'd land on the beach opposite the hotels! Well, most of us... there was always one who'd land IN the hotel pool..... (Typical skydivers.......)

[P3_Super_Bee]

EP-3E ARIES I
EP-3E ARIES II
UP-3A
VP-3A
P-3B
P-3C damn near every Charlie varient too.
(If you want to add work on, their a crapload more to list there lol)

C-2 (cat and a trap there)
C-9
C-12
C-20G
C-40
C-130

Miltary Charters
ATA B757
ATA L1011
ATI DC-8-62
World DC-10

[brianw999]

In my Air Training Corps days as a youth...

Fixed wing...
Blackburn Beverly
AW Argosy
DHC2 Chipmunk
Avro Anson
Lightning T5 ( Orgasm on wings !!! )
Jet Provost

Helicopters...
Westland Wessex

In the Territorial Army as a medic....

Fixed wing...
RAF and USAF C130's
Vickers VC10

Helicopters...
US Army Blackhawk
Huey
Lynx
Puma
Gazelle

In civilian life as a paramedic

Royal Saudi Air Force C130 ( Flying Intensive Care Unit )
Royal Saudi Air Force Bell Huey
RN Sea King