Northern Ireland Aviation Enthusiast's Forum
Military Aviation => Modern Military Aircraft => Topic started by: Angry Turnip on February 27, 2011, 03:53:13 PM
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Was just out at around 1535 ish and noticed what looked like a military coloured B767 / A310 sized aircraft heading NNW-looked to me like it may have been a tanker.
Have some pics and will put them on later-looked on planefinders.net but couldn`t see it.
Was an aircraft over Donegal but no reg available but was squawk 3371 Hexcode 4CA885.Don`t think that was the aircraft I saw,but maybe someone knows how to look up squawk/Hexcodes.I googled them but didn`t find anything. :-\
Did anyone else notice it?
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Last night at 4am I heard an aircraft flying over... turned on the mobile plane finder and discovered it was a recently converted cargo 767 (N219CY). See pic here (http://www.airliners.net/photo/Untitled-(ABX-Air)/Boeing-767-383-ER(BDSF)/1807817/L/)
Maybe it could have been this again? Lets see some pics ;D
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In my rush to check on planefinders.net to see what the aircraft was I didn`t look that closely at my pics.
The aircraft wasn`t on planefinders as it looks like an Airbus A310 MRTT 8)
Often military aircraft don`t show up on flight tracker sites.
Possibly Canadian or German Air Force.
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Found it :) Canadian CC-150 Polaris! (Reg; 15004) ;D
Wiki Page (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airbus_CC-150_Polaris)
Jetphotos Pic (http://www.jetphotos.net/viewphoto.php?id=6786717)
They only have one with fuel pods on the wings which would be 15004.
Dave
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Thanks for the additional info Dave :)
I wonder why they just don`t call it an Airbus A310 MRTT (Multi Role Transport Tanker) ?
Shame it wasn`t with a couple of CF-18`s ;)
Nice to see something a bit unusual in the skies above BFS.