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Water Bomber in the area
By: Tim-OBX 5/6/2025	Posted By: Tim-OBX - (Send PM) Member Since: 6/2/2004 Location: Kitty Hawk Total Posts: 25870 Experience: Date Posted: 5/6/2025 11:44 AM
Who else saw the water bomber pass by about 5:30pm yesterday. I see is is still in the area, looks like the track takes it to get water and back to a fire west of us.

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By: Stumpy 5/6/2025	Posted By: Stumpy - (Send PM) Member Since: 3/8/2005 Location: I'm right here Total Posts: 772 Experience: Date Posted: 5/6/2025 12:47 PM
Sunset Road fire? Click to follow link...

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By: Mstaszew 5/6/2025	Posted By: Mstaszew - (Send PM) Member Since: 3/17/2014 Location: Triangle Area, NC Total Posts: 1900 Experience: Date Posted: 5/6/2025 1:29 PM
It did a pass near the monument yesterday. I saw it from beside Run Hill/Camp Salt.

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By: Greg MD 5/6/2025	Posted By: Greg MD - (Send PM) Member Since: 3/10/2014 Location: Swamp Total Posts: 4456 Experience: Date Posted: 5/6/2025 2:40 PM
When I read the thread title, I expected to see a picture of a kid with a bucket full of water balloons.

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By: OceanBlue 5/6/2025	Posted By: OceanBlue - (Send PM) Member Since: 8/21/2010 Location: Total Posts: 2617 Experience: Date Posted: 5/6/2025 2:48 PM
When I read the thread title, I expected to see a picture of a kid with a bucket full of water balloons. Greg MD And a funnelator for those long distance shots ;)

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By: Tim-OBX 5/6/2025	Posted By: Tim-OBX - (Send PM) Member Since: 6/2/2004 Location: Kitty Hawk Total Posts: 25870 Experience: Date Posted: 5/6/2025 2:51 PM
It did a pass near the monument yesterday. I saw it from beside Run Hill/Camp Salt. Mstaszew Where I live I see planes coming to circle the monument and they fly off. I did it too when I got my pilots license. It must have circled and then went up to Eliz City.

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By: Tim-OBX 5/6/2025	Posted By: Tim-OBX - (Send PM) Member Since: 6/2/2004 Location: Kitty Hawk Total Posts: 25870 Experience: Date Posted: 5/6/2025 4:16 PM
Sunset Road fire? Click to follow link... Stumpy Let's see where it goes. It is back in the air again.

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By: ezbuckwheat 5/6/2025	Posted By: ezbuckwheat - (Send PM) Member Since: 1/18/2021 Location: Kitty Hawk Total Posts: 1351 Experience: Date Posted: 5/6/2025 4:39 PM
It’s been in and out of E City all week Click to follow link...

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By: ezbuckwheat 5/6/2025	Posted By: ezbuckwheat - (Send PM) Member Since: 1/18/2021 Location: Kitty Hawk Total Posts: 1351 Experience: Date Posted: 5/6/2025 4:52 PM
Looks like a training flight. They probably have some new guys that they’re checking out in the airplane, and Elizabeth City is an ideal place to do it. They do a touch and go on the water to scoop their water up.

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By: ezbuckwheat 5/6/2025	Posted By: ezbuckwheat - (Send PM) Member Since: 1/18/2021 Location: Kitty Hawk Total Posts: 1351 Experience: Date Posted: 5/6/2025 4:57 PM
.. Click to follow link...

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By: Tim-OBX 5/7/2025	Posted By: Tim-OBX - (Send PM) Member Since: 6/2/2004 Location: Kitty Hawk Total Posts: 25870 Experience: Date Posted: 5/7/2025 8:43 AM
I could believe training. NC Forestry used to have one or two water bombers some 8-10 years ago. They sold them to a Canadian company that had a tv show that had cargo planes up there. Maybe this is a replacement for them being sold. N418BT

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By: Tim-OBX 5/7/2025	Posted By: Tim-OBX - (Send PM) Member Since: 6/2/2004 Location: Kitty Hawk Total Posts: 25870 Experience: Date Posted: 5/7/2025 8:45 AM
yesterday route

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By: ezbuckwheat 5/7/2025	Posted By: ezbuckwheat - (Send PM) Member Since: 1/18/2021 Location: Kitty Hawk Total Posts: 1351 Experience: Date Posted: 5/7/2025 10:25 AM
As I am posting this, they are in the air and appear to be off of Kitty Hawk doing touch and goes in the ocean. I’d go watch them on the beach, but I am in Elizabeth City today.

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By: ezbuckwheat 5/7/2025	Posted By: ezbuckwheat - (Send PM) Member Since: 1/18/2021 Location: Kitty Hawk Total Posts: 1351 Experience: Date Posted: 5/7/2025 10:43 AM
This is the same link that I posted yesterday, but if you wanna watch their route in real time, you can do it here. Click to follow link...

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By: ezbuckwheat 5/7/2025	Posted By: ezbuckwheat - (Send PM) Member Since: 1/18/2021 Location: Kitty Hawk Total Posts: 1351 Experience: Date Posted: 5/7/2025 10:45 AM
Now off of Southern Shores, and turning south again.

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By: Stumpy 5/7/2025	Posted By: Stumpy - (Send PM) Member Since: 3/8/2005 Location: I'm right here Total Posts: 772 Experience: Date Posted: 5/7/2025 1:41 PM
Another site for IDing who's buzzing around overhead. globe.adsbexchange.com/

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By: Tim-OBX 5/7/2025	Posted By: Tim-OBX - (Send PM) Member Since: 6/2/2004 Location: Kitty Hawk Total Posts: 25870 Experience: Date Posted: 5/7/2025 3:26 PM
Another site for IDing who's buzzing around overhead. Stumpy I like that one - thanks

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By: ezbuckwheat 5/7/2025	Posted By: ezbuckwheat - (Send PM) Member Since: 1/18/2021 Location: Kitty Hawk Total Posts: 1351 Experience: Date Posted: 5/7/2025 7:24 PM
They have been working the Pasquotank River, close in offshore, the Albemarle Sound, Lake Gaston and the mouth of the Roanoke River. Looks like they did all of those in their three sorties today.

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By: ezbuckwheat 5/7/2025	Posted By: ezbuckwheat - (Send PM) Member Since: 1/18/2021 Location: Kitty Hawk Total Posts: 1351 Experience: Date Posted: 5/7/2025 7:27 PM
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By: ezbuckwheat 5/7/2025	Posted By: ezbuckwheat - (Send PM) Member Since: 1/18/2021 Location: Kitty Hawk Total Posts: 1351 Experience: Date Posted: 5/7/2025 7:31 PM
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By: ezbuckwheat 5/7/2025	Posted By: ezbuckwheat - (Send PM) Member Since: 1/18/2021 Location: Kitty Hawk Total Posts: 1351 Experience: Date Posted: 5/7/2025 7:55 PM
They have been working the Pasquotank River, close in offshore, the Albemarle Sound, Lake Gaston and the mouth of the Roanoke River. Looks like they did all of those in their three sorties today. ezbuckwheat Actually, it’s the mouth of the Chowan River, which is only a few miles from the mouth of the Roanoke River. The Roanoke River is the one highlighted on this map image.

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By: Bentmtn 5/7/2025	Posted By: Bentmtn - (Send PM) Member Since: 9/11/2020 Location: SW VA/Frisco Total Posts: 4590 Experience: Date Posted: 5/7/2025 8:26 PM
They have been working the Pasquotank River, close in offshore, the Albemarle Sound, Lake Gaston and the mouth of the Roanoke River. Looks like they did all of those in their three sorties today. ezbuckwheat Actually, it’s the mouth of the Chowan River, which is only a few miles from the mouth of the Roanoke River. The Roanoke River is the one highlighted on this map image. ezbuckwheat Cool! Back Creek is on the bottom of our property and a tributary of the Roanoke River. I have held my breath and driven over it many a time when it was very high and over the banks. Eek!

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By: ezbuckwheat 5/7/2025	Posted By: ezbuckwheat - (Send PM) Member Since: 1/18/2021 Location: Kitty Hawk Total Posts: 1351 Experience: Date Posted: 5/7/2025 9:22 PM
They have been working the Pasquotank River, close in offshore, the Albemarle Sound, Lake Gaston and the mouth of the Roanoke River. Looks like they did all of those in their three sorties today. ezbuckwheat Actually, it’s the mouth of the Chowan River, which is only a few miles from the mouth of the Roanoke River. The Roanoke River is the one highlighted on this map image. ezbuckwheat Cool! Back Creek is on the bottom of our property and a tributary of the Roanoke River. I have held my breath and driven over it many a time when it was very high and over the banks. Eek! Bentmtn Have you considered tubing from your mountain home to your beach home? Click to follow link...

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By: Bentmtn 5/7/2025	Posted By: Bentmtn - (Send PM) Member Since: 9/11/2020 Location: SW VA/Frisco Total Posts: 4590 Experience: Date Posted: 5/7/2025 9:41 PM
They have been working the Pasquotank River, close in offshore, the Albemarle Sound, Lake Gaston and the mouth of the Roanoke River. Looks like they did all of those in their three sorties today. ezbuckwheat Actually, it’s the mouth of the Chowan River, which is only a few miles from the mouth of the Roanoke River. The Roanoke River is the one highlighted on this map image. ezbuckwheat Cool! Back Creek is on the bottom of our property and a tributary of the Roanoke River. I have held my breath and driven over it many a time when it was very high and over the banks. Eek! Bentmtn Have you considered tubing from your mountain home to your beach home? Click to follow link... ezbuckwheat I wish, EZ! 425 miles to my front porch is so long. I think I screamed about three times riding through the Cheasapeake area today knowing we would die around Hampton Roads. Thank goodness I could put on the brakes via the dashboard. And the other way through Manteo and Raleigh is even worse. I hate 40. Wish wish.....both ways are terrible.

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By: Bentmtn 5/7/2025	Posted By: Bentmtn - (Send PM) Member Since: 9/11/2020 Location: SW VA/Frisco Total Posts: 4590 Experience: Date Posted: 5/7/2025 9:59 PM
My husband actually told me today that he made it to the OBX one time in four days without my help....

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