Nomination for best callsign ever...

EatSleepFly

EatSleepFly

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"Rough Rider"

Air 1st Aviation's MU2's. That's a badass freight doggy-style callsign, for a badass airplane! :cool:

My nomination for the lamest in the freight world is "Air Spur" (WTF?), followed closely by "Key Lime."

Discuss. :)
 
EatSleepFly said:
"Rough Rider"

Air 1st Aviation's MU2's. That's a badass freight doggy-style callsign, for a badass airplane! :cool:
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Yes. They fill in for us here in DFW quite a bit. There is another one that does bank work out here with the callsign "BIG D"... Wonder what that stands for??? ;)
 
"Lethal" - Some Navy training squadron.

"Thug Flight" - Some C-17s .


Heard both out of IWA.
 
Rough Rider has my vote for freight.
Big D came along because there already is a GTA in Ireland.
A lady Addison ATC has taken to calling us Liddle D.
:cool:
 
EatSleepFly said:
My nomination for the lamest in the freight world is "Air Spur" (WTF?), followed closely by "Key Lime."
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Take it easy...Air Spur cuts my paycheck. Corporate Air is based out of Billings, MT and I guess the story is centered around most of the original pilots flying for the company were given the choice of black dress shoes or cowboy boots for the uniform. Apparently, they chose the cowboy boots. Not the lamest...just obscure.
 
You'll love the callsigns for the guard units in the midwest. At Scott AFB (BLV) the guard unit is "Happy" there is another callsign floating some where in the midwest that is "Sad". Both are KC-135 units flying E models. The unit out of MacDill in FL is "Bolt".
 
BobDDuck said:
That's fitting too. Do Army Aviation guys have personal call signs too that you can use locally or is that just an AF/Navy thing?
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Nah - we don't do that.

In fact, our Pachyderm call sign was used only internally and at military fields. To the rest of the national airspace we were boring old "Army Copter 12345."
 
The field I fly out of has several Helo's that go by the callsigns of:

Mosquito 1
Mosquito 2
Mosquito 3
Mosquito 4


You'll know when bugs are coming becuase you'll hear them on frequency....:eek:
 
BobDDuck said:
That's fitting too. Do Army Aviation guys have personal call signs too that you can use locally or is that just an AF/Navy thing?
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Usually only overseas or in tactical situations. In OIF/OEF there is a list of unit call signs that can be chosen. Some are then adopted as unit call signs. My favorite was Red Baron (we called ourselves Red Baron airlines).
Army units can apply for call signs, but most don't.
My least favorit was hauling checks- Sparkle. Man that was gay. But the company was good to me and at least my pay checks didn't bounce.
 
During the Long Beach Grand Prix the Sat. flyby was done by C-17s called Slam 99, Sundays F-18 flyby was flown under the callsign Vampire 11.
I'm too lazy to see if the vamps are a Marine Corps squadron or not.
 
I work with a woman whose ground controller callsign was "Swallow".

The pilots always had a good laugh when she directed them on the radio, she said.
 
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