N512AR and N94AR both active from Boscombe Down today, working in the adjacent Porton Down ranges between 1000 and 1500ft QFE. N512AR aka TO1 (twin Otter 1 I guess) and N94AR as TO2 when communicating with Porton Range on the same freq as Boscombe APC 135.75.

N512AR was up for about 2.5 hours before returning for lunch and being asked to report to the Supervisor for causing some problems with the local traffic patterns such as Old Sarum and Middle Wallop.

N94AR continued on task, with G-PASF AS.355 Twin Squirrel which descended from 5700ft to 3500ft then 2500ft.

One back end callsign heard was 'Sea Bass' (or CBAS).

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