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1505 Venus 03 "heavy" land at ADW (125.65/118.4). Showing on ADS-B as B-747-800 N850GT ABA800. FAA site shows it's registered to Atlas Air Inc
Interesting as that tail is Atlas Cargo type not pax.. Arrived last evening at Andrews and seems on training flight today.
Andrews pilots maybe doing pre-training for the Potus B-748 gifted by Qatar? May be a little different from B742 model.


I had HELL-11 flight of 3 dropping down into A/C earlier this afternoon 1539 local.

RCH-899 C-17 #03-3116 MS ANG arriving Andrews. Prob picking up Med folks etc and will be
tomorrows Med-Evac flight from Ramstein.
 
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Interesting as that tail is Atlas Cargo type not pax.. Arrived last evening at Andrews and seems on training flight today.
Andrews pilots maybe doing pre-training for the Potus B-748 gifted by Qatar? May be a little different from B742 model.


I had HELL-11 flight of 3 dropping down into A/C earlier this afternoon 1539 local.

RCH-899 C-17 #03-3116 MS ANG arriving Andrews. Prob picking up Med folks etc and will be
tomorrows Med-Evac flight from Ramstein

Speaking of tail numbers, looks like an Ilyushin Il-96-300 with tail number 96023 just landed JFK. I've read that Putin usually uses 96022, but uses others in 9602X range. Any idea who's visiting?

LOL. Answered my own question: Apparently this is also known as the "cocaine plane". Apparently over 800lbs of cocaine was found at the Russian embassy allegedly headed to being loaded on a Russian diplo flight from Argentina a few years back.
 
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Interesting as that tail is Atlas Cargo type not pax.. Arrived last evening at Andrews and seems on training flight today.
Andrews pilots maybe doing pre-training for the Potus B-748 gifted by Qatar? May be a little different from B742 model.


I had HELL-11 flight of 3 dropping down into A/C earlier this afternoon 1539 local.

RCH-899 C-17 #03-3116 MS ANG arriving Andrews. Prob picking up Med folks etc and will be
tomorrows Med-Evac flight from Ramstein.
Mark

Saw that over last 2-3 weeks this 747 has been everywhere. It was using callsign Atlas 3. So now it's Venus 03---means it's been turned /loaned to 89th As?
 

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TEAL-74 #96-5301 doing hurricane loops near Bermuda..
Not a US territory but we keep an eye out for them as lots of US tourists and investors :)
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Good Article on KC-46 cert work with the old F-117A's off California.
 
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