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Saturday, January 23, 2016

Operation Deep Freeze 2015/2016

This year's Operation Deep Freeze is moving along at a similar tempo to last season with the ski-equipped Lockheed LC130H Hercules fleet flown by the New York Air National Guard are providing the mainstay of flight support between Christchurch and Antarctica. This season the Hercules are using a new radio callsign protocol with southbound flights calling themselves FROZEN and northbound flights NORTH followed by a consecutive numbering system. The last few season's the aircraft have used the callsign SKIER with a random number.  

A visiting Boeing 737/C40 Clipper, 02-0201, arrived at Christchurch 17 January carrying passengers destined for the frozen continent. The Clipper departed Christchurch on the evening of 23 January for Guam/Andersen.

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