........All the while all other traffic was still landing/departing on 27R. I believe that 27L was scheduled to be out of use until approx 19:00 when AF1 was due to leave for Brussels. Not sure if it actually left this evening or whether plans changed (unlikely given the military precision of these ops).
AF1 left Heathrow for Brussels as planned, followed by the C32A shortly afterwards.
AF1 took an unusually circuitous routing which allowed the C32A time to effectively "overtake" and get to Brussels ahead and land first.
AF1 departed Heathrow to the SW, routing down to Southampton and the IOW, before turning east and flying along the south coast all the way to Dover, before following the normal route to Brussels.
There were actually 2 C32A's at Newquay.
99-0003 departed the day before on Saturday afternoon and flew to Brussels, presumably with an advance party of officials and security?
3 support C17's flew into Newquay, after AF1 had departed.
2 from Ramstein and later on, one from Mildenhall.
Callsigns (Reach) RCH221, RCH414 and RCH990 respectively.
They all passed over Southampton on the way into Newquay.
The first 2 departed later on for Prestwick, presumably making a refuelling stop before crossing the Atlantic, back to the US?
The last one, RCH990 returned to Ramstein very late in the evening.
These would have been collecting the presidential motorcade and other security vehicles, along with other "equipment".
At least one C17 brought helicopters into Culdrose before the event, but these may have been taken away from elsewhere, following the flights between Heathrow and Windsor Castle on Sunday afternoon.
(A few C17's have been in and out of Fairford, both yesterday and today.)
Living not far from Southampton and despite not being anywhere near Cornwall, or London Heathrow, I had a good view of many of the VIP and support aircraft attending, as they flew over the area on their way to or from Newquay.
The weather was clear with not a cloud in the sky.
Apart from the C32A on Saturday afternoon, that passed directly overhead (FL290) on it's way to Brussels, on Sunday, I also saw.......
2x German Air Force A319's (15+01 & 15+02)
One flew in from Germany and held at high level over the Torbay area for over an hour before the leaders started departing.
I thought it had come to collect Mrs. Merkel, but when the other one got airborne from Newquay, heading back to Berlin (which I assume had Frau Merkel onboard), the aircraft holding at high level turned around and headed back to Germany, just a few minutes ahead of Mutti's plane.
Not long afterwards, the Japanese government 777 flew over, climbing out of Gatwick (up to FL200) where it had been parked, heading the other way back to Newquay to pick up the Japanese Prime Minister.
Simultaneously, the first of the USAF C17A's (RCH221) came into view immediately just behind it, arriving from Ramstein at a much higher level and 'trailing'. It started it's long descent into Newquay overhead Southampton, following the Japanese 777.
Again, very soon after that, I saw the Korean President's B747 passing to the south of us, climbing out from the West Country, on its way to Vienna.
It was already high enough to be 'trailing".
Then AF1 passed overhead just to the south of us, on its way into Heathrow, followed by the C32A 09-0016 (c/s SAM46).
Next, Mr & Mrs Boris flew over in the brand new, UK government liveried, Titan Airways A321Neo - ZT646, on their way back to Stansted.
Followed later by Aussie PM Scott Morrison in an RAAF KC30A (A330-200), also going to Stansted.
In between there was a privately registered Falcon 900 and a French Air Force Falcon (900 or 7X ?) both routing overhead from Newquay to Brussels (A VdL. & Charles Michel in one of them perhaps?).
The other aircraft leaving Newquay, including Mario Draghi's Italian AF A319, another FAF Falcon, South African president Cyril Ramaphosa's 737-BBJ and Justin Trudeau's CC-150 (A310), didn't come anywhere near Southampton, unfortunately.
All in all, I was quite lucky to see all the ones I did see, considering we're nowhere near Cornwall.
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