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Offline Angry Turnip

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B767 / A310 Tanker ?
« on: February 27, 2011, 03:53:13 PM »
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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Re: B767 Tanker
« Reply #1 on: February 27, 2011, 05:32:27 PM »
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
 
Maybe it could have been this again? Lets see some pics  ;D
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Re: B767 Tanker ?
« Reply #2 on: February 27, 2011, 09:39:39 PM »
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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Re: B767 Tanker ?
« Reply #3 on: February 27, 2011, 10:10:01 PM »
Found it :) Canadian CC-150 Polaris! (Reg; 15004)  ;D
 
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They only have one with fuel pods on the wings which would be 15004.
 
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Re: B767 / A310 Tanker ?
« Reply #4 on: February 28, 2011, 01:41:30 PM »
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.
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