Interesting aircraft - what have you seen on your computer today?

[treadigraph]

US reg and un-hushkitted as far as I know.

Hang on... just found a Luton movements site, says it was a GIII N196PA - same people own the GII, presume it must have been an error in the data. Still, a G3 would have been a nice spot, still the same Speys, but does have hush kits fitted!

[DaveReidUK]

Originally Posted by treadigraph

US reg and un-hushkitted as far as I know.

Hang on... just found a Luton movements site, says it was a GIII N196PA - same people own the GII, presume it must have been an error in the data. Still, a G3 would have been a nice spot, still the same Speys, but does have hush kits fitted!

N196PA was originally worn by a Gulfstream I (turboprop), also with Phoenix Air and WFU in 2015. i can't find any record of a GII with that registration, although there may well have been one between the GI and GIII.

[treadigraph]

Had a quick look back, ADSB Exchange mistakenly lists N196PA as a GII - it is definitely a III! Phoenix has several GIIs which have different reg's, I couldn't recall which one it was when looking at the LAAS site later on.

[WHBM]

Originally Posted by treadigraph

Listening to a Chinook blatting along the Thames somewhere around Hampton Court which is 10+ miles away across SW London... amazing how clear it is really as the wind feels like its out of the southeast.

Curiously, that date and time [13th Feb 2023 16:47] , I was by City Airport and heard it as well for quite a while, as if it was holding. Eventually seen in the far distance heading south over the Thames to Greenwich, but disappeared, possibly heading towards you ...

[SpringHeeledJack]

US reg and un-hushkitted as far as I know.

Hang on... just found a Luton movements site, says it was a GIII N196PA - same people own the GII, presume it must have been an error in the data. Still, a G3 would have been a nice spot, still the same Speys, but does have hush kits fitted!

​​​​​​​Thanks, I saw a couple of their other ones in the last few years, very dark c/s and seemingly fitted out for medevac roles. Good to see them still in use, even if series 3 and not 2.

[treadigraph]

Pair of French AF PC-21s just fizzed over here a few minutes apart - first one now quite low over north London, Northolt?

Edit: yup, Northolt.

[SpringHeeledJack]

BTW Mr T, your oft missed Moby Dick went past the capital at 6-something this morning headed into Mildenhall. ;-)

[treadigraph]

Oh yeah! 6.15am... cloud aside couldn't have seen it from dahn in the valley here. ONE day...

[India Four Two]

Not on my screen, but out the window. Taxiing for takeoff at Saigon, I saw a Czech Kingair, a long way from home.

[Double Hydco]

Originally Posted by treadigraph

Pair of French AF PC-21s just fizzed over here a few minutes apart - first one now quite low over north London, Northolt?

Edit: yup, Northolt.

Seems to be three of them?. I can see them at the holding point waiting to depart now…..

[treadigraph]

I didn't notice the third, just the two I heard pass overhead above the clag. Third turboprop went over a couple of mins later which was one of those air taxi PC-12s, Belgian or Finnish or summat.

[DuncanDoenitz]

Don't see many transponders pinging over Ukraine, but FR24 currently has an unidentified vehicle at 13000' over Lviv, came from the east, speed in the 100kt ballpark so maybe a drone. Interesting callsign; FCKPTN01. Add vowels of your choice, I suppose ......

[treadigraph]

Definitely a drone! Nice one!

[treadigraph]

Blast - I see the E-4 went back to the US yesterday, passed almost directly over my head in Lightwater at 1720 - with pretty clear skies...

[Mr @ Spotty M]

I am surprised that the E-4 was around because Biden used the C-32A for his trip to Poland because of security concerns.

[malcolm380]

He used the VC-25 for the return. It was showing on ADSB-exchange with the AF1 callsign from Warsaw to just west of Ireland, when it disappeared, never to reappear.

[Mr @ Spotty M]

My understanding is whatever a/c he is on is always called Air-force 1.

[treadigraph]

Wherever POTUS is, there should be an E-4 stationed nearby just in case... or so I believe...

[SWBKCB]

Interesting 757 from Bangor to Rzeszow this morning - N119NA United States Department of Justice

[WHBM]

Dozing somewhat at 3am this Sunday morning, there's a very distant turboprop droning coming over London, so intrigued enough to get up and have a look, turned out to be an Israeli Air Force Hercules, Jerusalem (or near) to Prestwick, passing overhead at altitude. Half an hour later there's another such noise, go downstairs again, it's a second one on the same track. Presumably off across the Atlantic.

Mrs W not notably amused to be informed of their progress ...