NATO
New MAGMA mission over Libya
This morning around 09:30 CEST an unidentified aircraft left Sigonella AB southbound. The ICAO hexcode indicated (33FD6B) is Italian but also in the...
itamilradarOctober 8, 2020
NATO Global Hawk mission over Libya
In these minutes (19:50 CEST) we’re tracking a Global Hawk descending to NAS Sigonella. The ICAO hexcode indicated (33FD6B) is Italian but also...
itamilradarSeptember 30, 2020
Another busy day off Crimea
This morning we’re tracking (again) a lot of traffic over the Black Sea. At least there are in the area: 1x RAF Bombardier...
itamilradarSeptember 28, 2020
First missions for NATO Phoenix
On Wednesday a fourth NATO Northrop Grumman RQ-4D Phoenix remotely piloted aircraft is landed in Sigonella after taking off from Edwards AFB in...
itamilradarJuly 30, 2020
New NATO “Phoenix” in Sigonella
This morning we’ve tracked a new arrival in Sigonella AB: a Northrop Grumman RQ-4D (callsign “MAGMA”) for NATO is landing in the sicilian...
itamilradarJuly 15, 2020
Ustica: looking for the truth since 1980
40 years ago, on 27 June 1980, Itavia Flight 870 (IH 870, AJ 421), a McDonnell Douglas DC-9 (I-TIGI) passenger jet en route...
itamilradarJune 27, 2020
Massive Turkish aerial operation off Libya (and more…)
This morning we thought to trak an usual Turkish mission to Misrata. But now we know that thisa mission was not usual. Off...
itamilradarJune 11, 2020
NATO AWACS over central Mediterranean Sea
A NATO Boeing E-3A (LX-N90448) departed from Geilenkirchen AB is making a surveillance mission between Malta and Libya in the same area where,...
itamilradarJune 2, 2020
NATO traffic over Black Sea
This morning three different surveillance missions were made by NATO planes: a USNavy Boeing P-8A from NAS Sigonella a RAF Sentinel R.1 (ZJ691)...
itamilradarMay 29, 2020
Search efforts transition to recovery mission following helicopter accident
Canadian Armed Forces official statement on RCAF helicopter crash in the Ionian Sea: “Today, the search and rescue efforts of Standing NATO Maritime...
itamilradarMay 2, 2020
