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



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