United States Navy F/A-18’s will be flying into Long Beach Airport and will be conducting a fly-over for the Long Beach Grand Prix this weekend. This may be a good opportunity for Civilian and MilAir monitoring in the area.
The tentative schedule that has been provided to the Long Beach Airport is:
Thursday, April 18, 2024:
- 2 aircraft arrive at approximately 4:30 PM.
Friday, April 19, 2024:
- 1 aircraft arrives at approximately 12:00 PM.
Sunday, April 21, 2024:
- All 3 aircraft depart at approximately 11:50 AM, conduct their flyover of the event at about 12:30 PM, and return to the airport at approximately 1:00 PM.
Monday, April 22, 2024:
- All 3 aircraft depart at approximately 9:30 AM.
Long Beach Airport Frequencies:
| 119.400 | AM | Tower – Runway 30 Apch / Runway 12 Dep |
| 120.500 | AM | Tower – Runway 12 Apch / Runway 30 Dep |
| 257.600 | AM | Tower – UHF |
| 133.000 | AM | Ground – VHF |
| 257.600 | AM | Ground – UHF |
Other Air Frequencies:
| 125.350 | AM | SoCal Approach |
| 127.200 | AM | SoCal Departure |
Also, don’t forget to monitor Long Beach Police, Fire, and Local Government frequencies. Race officials are renting a boatload of radios (mostly low-power HT’s on UHF frequencies) from Bearcom. Put your scanner search function to use!
Here is a link from RadioReference User “chocolate_nault” which is a spreadsheet of 2024 Indycar frequencies: https://forums.radioreference.com/attachments/2024_indycar_draft-zip.160346/