Boeing C-17A Globemaster III

ZZ171
 United Kingdom
Transport - Operations - Military

12 April 2021
21:56

Origin : KBL
KBL
OAKB
Kabul
Kabul Province
 Afghanistan
Elevation : 1791m / 5877ft
Destination : AKT
AKT
LCRA
Akrotiri
(unassigned)
 United Kingdom
Elevation : 23m / 76ft

CommentHere's the RAF chappies doing their bit for the greater 'good' i.e. NATO -- NAG call sign/flight-number -- flying back to Akrotiri where they took off yesterday.
I think I've figured out their NAG call sign/flight-number system : the letters don't change but the numbers do : they are incremented with every movement : to Kabul they're at 67 whereas from Kabul the number is 26, which is weird because you'd think that if you fly in you also have to fly out so the number would be the same either way. Unless of course they're totals : total RAF NAG flights to Kabul and total NAG flight to Akrotiri.

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 NAG (313)
 
NATO Mission to Afghanistan.

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