Coronet Missions

Coronet missions are those across the Atlantic/Pacific Oceans that are either delivering new aircraft or flights of aircraft rotating to/from overseas bases. If they can't make it on their internal fuel load, they are assigned a tanker(s) to fly along with them and provide fuel.

Those frequencies correspond to the suffix of the flight - such as TABOR 11. First, you look at the suffix. Since it's 11, their refueling freqs are the A (Alpha) set of freqs. There's a Primary and Secondary freq for the Alpha refueling plan. In the example, TABOR 11 would use the Alpha set of freqs - either 396.2 or 394.6.

A HURON 61 flight would use the Kilo set -- 343.1 or 322.8.

The new callsigns used for Coronet East (Atlantic Ocean crossing) are as follows;

• The tankers are using CAFE and CLEAN (old were BLUE and GOLD which seem to still pop up occasionally)
• The accompanied aircraft are using HURON and TABOR.

The refueling freqs apply to both East and West.

USAF Coronet Air-Refueling bandplan for the Continental US (CONUS)

Callsign Suffix	Designator	Primary	Secondary
11	Alfa	396.20	394.60
21	Bravo	391.00	388.40
31	Charlie	378.20	375.70
41	Delta	373.55	370.40
51	Echo	314.10	297.30
61	Kilo	343.10	322.80
71	India	254.60	255.75
81	Juliet	236.75	228.55
91	Foxtrot	293.00	289.70

USAF Coronet Air-Refueling bandplan for Europe

Designator	Primary	Backup
A	294.80	307.90
B	296.50	380.80
C	298.10	340.65
D	299.70	380.80
E	344.10	340.65
F	268.25	307.90
G	246.05	340.65

Other freqs with CORONET traffic

• 297.90
• 318.00
• 373.55

Thanx to TinEar and JohnFB for the details