4th of July: US Independence and US Traffic at Madeira

Was reading some online news today, when I remembered that North-Americans celebrate its independence today...

Congrats!
It's a nice reason to share some pics of US Military Planes around here...(not usual visitors...)

USCG C-130J 2005 together with an USAF KC-10 Extender ( 84-0186)

05-0730, a beautifull USAF C-40 (737)

40087, small Learjet from (C-21) from USAFE(urope), with TF-BBE, from Bluebird Cargo entering the apron

and yet another pic of the KC-10 Stratotanker....

As far as I know it was the only time we got one of these around here...

2006, another C-130J from USCG that was here the same time the KC-10 and the 2005

The Korean, the American and the Icelandic...

No...it's not the title of a joke...

Today we had, for the first time (as far as I know) a Korean Air plane.
Although it wasn't wearing full airline livery (was a BBJ) it's still one of the best catches of the Year...

Arrived early in the morning, after a flight through the Atlantic, from Atlanta (ATL/KATL).

on final to runway 05 with very nice golden light...

HL8222

Taxi to Alpha 11 for a night-stop.

Also on the apron, after a night stop there was 40087, a C-21 from USAFE (United States Air Force Europe)
(with TF-BBE, from Bluebird Cargo arriving, on the back, from Lisbon, on the daily cargo flight to Agroar)

The kind of pic you don't get accepted at Airliners.net or Jetphotos.net

While waiting for the Korean, took some time to register the magnificent sunrise, behind Desertas