Interesting aircraft - what have you seen on your computer today?
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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!
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!
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!
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!
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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.
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!
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!
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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.
Edit: yup, Northolt.
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Oh yeah! 6.15am... cloud aside couldn't have seen it from dahn in the valley here. ONE day...
Not on my screen, but out the window. Taxiing for takeoff at Saigon, I saw a Czech Kingair, a long way from home.
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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.
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 ......
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Definitely a drone! Nice one!
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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...
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.
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Wherever POTUS is, there should be an E-4 stationed nearby just in case... or so I believe...
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 ...
Mrs W not notably amused to be informed of their progress ...