Good afternoon planefags! 2/9 Daily Post
✈️ Planes ✈️
Today's finds
- Algerian Gulfstream out of Savannah, GA via u/leta
- The 82-8000 "AF1" plane landed after seeming to circle/land at Langley.
It didn't put up a callsign at all and its transponders seemed to stay off for the majority of the flight.according to u/Tropic_Lightning and u/Warren_Puffitt they may have been practicing approaches! - An Israeli B703 is flying on the East coast as well and has stopped tracking. This plane is a 'blocked aircraft' on most major radar sites (like AF1 is)
- 3 VENUS flights are up out of DC. Probably training, but the one commonly used as AF2 has been turning tracking off on occasion.
- SAM735 out of DC
General info:
- Joe Biden took one of the 'small' planes that can be used as AF1 this past weekend to Delaware. I have seen no confirmation of the callsign "Air Force 1" being used, please post if you find out anything more.
- A SAM flight is a Special Air Mission meaning a high level official is on the plane
- AF1 alternates between 2 different flights reg number: 82-8000 or 92-9000, but they may be flying a test flight if they aren't putting up the AF1 callsign.
- The callsign "AF1" does not need to be used to mean POTUS is onboard, they may use a different one for security
- VENUS indicates a training mission
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That Israeli plane has interesting history
Looks like it is blocked on most other radar sites, too
VC-25 82-8000 over Tidewater VA may be practicing approaches; I have a friend near there who tells me they use a Portsmouth or NN airfield routinely for that.
I work for the Air Force, they do this all the time. Pilots need to stay trained.
Thanks for the info, I added it to the post. I'm always happy to learn more. As an aside, the 92-9000 VC-25 has been in Wichita Falls for almost over a month. It seems to be 'staying' at the municipal airport and not Sheppard AFB (probably too small). When it flies, which is fairly rare (last time was the 5th) it does patterns with some Tex2s and T38s. What do you think they're doing with it?
EDIT: Here's a link https://www.radarbox.com/data/registration/92-9000
I'm loving the squawk DECOY99 c17 currently getting some go juice from DECEE22
That's not the squawk mate that his callsign. The squawk is the 4 digit transponder code, issued by air traffic and changes en-route depending on who's controlling it.
For sure, dude. I misspoke. Not enuf coffee when I wrote it
No worries mate.
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82 - 8000 seems to be coming out of Langley, although they've jammed the track making it tough to know if it was just doing touch and go's or something else? Squawking 2111.
Was watching the map again in nightshift, some interesting finds.
Tu-214PU-SBUS was doing loops near Moscow: https://globe.adsbexchange.com/?icao=14fc11
"Special-purpose aircraft-control point equipped with a special onboard communication unit SBUS-214 intended for the Ministry of Defence of Russia. The aircraft is built with Russian-made components only, meeting the requirements of the state customers and has a range of at least 7,200 km (4,500 mi). The main purpose of the aircraft is to provide additional communication capabilities to the user."
E-8C Joint STARS spotted in ME: https://globe.adsbexchange.com/?icao=ae1493
"The E-8C Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System is an airborne battle management, command and control, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance platform. Its primary mission is to provide theater ground and air commanders with ground surveillance to support attack operations and targeting that contributes to the delay, disruption and destruction of enemy forces."
USN P-8A Poseidon over Bulgaria/Greece: https://globe.adsbexchange.com/?icao=ae67f6
Another E-8C U.S. side: https://globe.adsbexchange.com/?icao=ae1499
I watched both 82 - 8000 and 98 - 0002 (IRC) out of DC. Over Pimilico sound 82 - 8000 started heading ESE and about 20nm off the coast when it dropped off radar.
The other 98 - 0002 was heading into (by the look of its track and height) Wilmington at 3,750' when it too dropped off radar.
The IAF is indeed and interesting one to keep an eye on?
POTUS is squawk 82-8000 and biteMe is in meeting with beg whig traitors per GEORGE
The 82 - 8000 is the registration, the squawk is the transponder code (4 digit) that air traffic controllers would issue as it transits through different airspace.
Good lord Military Planes everywhere right now. Even more than yesterday. https://www.radarbox.com/@33.05803,-88.61927,z6
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Watching the water?
I’m in savannah kek
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Correction on the third bullet: The Presidential Airlift Group uses two VC25s. This shot is from a movie on my Plex server called "Secret Access: Air Force One." Shows them both in the hangar at Joint Base Andrews. https://files.catbox.moe/pxhu3v.jpg
Which do I need to correct? The two shown in that photo are the 82-8000 and 92-9000 that I listed. The plane Biden took was a C-32A that is occasionally used as AF1 when flying into small airports. Trump used it a handful of times for that as well.
Maybe it was just the way I read it. I read it that the registration number would shift, but that wasn't clear that the actual airframe was involved. If you saw them on the ramp, one would have a tail number of 28000 and the other would have a tail number of 29000. Might be just the way I read the post. If so, I apologize.
No worries, I'm always looking to add and improve. The registration won't change, but the callsign will and the hex# might. Those two tail numbers match up with the 2 registration numbers listed. I'm still not 100% sure why the tail numbers differ from registration on some planes, however.
A good vid on AF1 on YT. Piers Morgan is the host and at 3:30 he mentions the two planes.
https://youtu.be/L4zt7BFqYDs
Do you suppose the close-by CLS aircraft is testing the jamming capabilities of the presidential aircraft, or the other way around?
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Don’t forget that Gulfstream is based in Savannah, so it’s not going to be unusual to see Gulfstreams come and go from there. Maintenance etc. (aviatrix here - yes, I assumed my own gender)
Yesterday I saw an Egpytian plane coming into the Virginia area. Its route displayed as a screen full of impossible zigzag lines over the entire Atlantic.
[4] P-8's in FL
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Interesting.....An Algerian Gulfstream 4 flying out of Savannah, GA as of 12:18 PM CST.
Q7TVPM call sign
Gulfstream is based in Savannah. This is most likely a maintenance visit.