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josemaria
 Post subject: Anyone knows this plane? N8521E
PostPosted: Tue Oct 19, 2010 11:40 am 
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This tail number belongs to a two-seater 'land' aircraft (AIR TRACTOR Fire Boss (single-turboprop) (AT8T/G) and it has been flying all over the planet. Last month it flew from Puerto Rico to Brazil and all of a sudden it departed Santa Maria, CA to Hawaii. Yesterday it arrived at Christmas Island and it is on its way for a 11+ hrs flight to Fiji Island!!!

Does anybody knows this aircraft and what it is doing? This is a single engine AC!

Thanks!
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porterjet
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PostPosted: Tue Oct 19, 2010 12:58 pm 
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http://flightaware.com/live/flight/N8521E

Getting to be fire season in Oz, maybe that's where it is headed.
Throw a couple of extra fuel tanks in and off you go. KSMX is a good jumping off point, you see light aircraft headed west a couple of times a month.
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dinyworld
 Post subject: Air Tractor N8521E
PostPosted: Tue Oct 19, 2010 1:34 pm 
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Hello All

The first time I noticed this aircraft (N8521E) was last month on September 13, 2010 when it departed from Aguadilla, PR (TJBQ,BQN) to Brazil!

http://flightaware.com/live/flight/N852 ... /TJBQ/SBBV

This amazing flight took more than 7 hours, and interesting enough, it departed again from California a couple of days ago to Hilo (Christmas Island) and then filed a flight plan to Fuji. There are some missing flight plans since the aircraft appears in other airports without a continuous track.

I wonder what is under the hood of that Air Tractor and the additional instruments, because it seems it is a modified plane to be able to take on those extremely long flights across open water.

This is my favorite aircraft to follow, perhaps maybe it will go Diego Garcia island or Ascencion Island ...in the middle of nowhere!

Please reply if you have some more information about this Air Tractor AT8 plane, tail number N8521E/N8521W.

We should nominate it to Guinness World of records...

:D
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propwash
 Post subject: Re: Air Tractor N8521E
PostPosted: Tue Oct 19, 2010 2:27 pm 
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dinyworld wrote:
Hello All

The first time I noticed this aircraft (N8521E) was last month on September 13, 2010 when it departed from Aguadilla, PR (TJBQ,BQN) to Brazil!

http://flightaware.com/live/flight/N852 ... /TJBQ/SBBV

This amazing flight took more than 7 hours, and interesting enough, it departed again from California a couple of days ago to Hilo (Christmas Island) and then filed a flight plan to Fuji. There are some missing flight plans since the aircraft appears in other airports without a continuous track.

I wonder what is under the hood of that Air Tractor and the additional instruments, because it seems it is a modified plane to be able to take on those extremely long flights across open water.

This is my favorite aircraft to follow, perhaps maybe it will go Diego Garcia island or Ascencion Island ...in the middle of nowhere!

Please reply if you have some more information about this Air Tractor AT8 plane, tail number N8521E/N8521W.

We should nominate it to Guinness World of records...

:D


The Air Tractor is an AG airplane with a PT6 turboprop engine with about 1,300 hp. It has a 800 gal hopper and fuel in the wings of about 250 gal. Useful load around 8,800 lbs. Ag operators in California and Texas like them for spraying LARGE areas of farm land.
Danny
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porterjet
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http://www.airtractor.com/at-802f
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FlyNYC
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If you figure a FireBoss carries 7350 lbs of fuel, with a fuel burn of 500 or 600 lbs an hour, endurance is somewhere between 12 and 15 hours at normal cruise. Imagine what it could do at long range cruise!
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mhalltheway13
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MANBOI wrote:
Does Buzz Aldrin still fly? associated tail number?

buzz flies public with delta
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185Driver
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I put money on N8521E being a Factory Reg# used for delivery of new aircraft to foreign customers. This would allow the experienced factory ferry pilot w/ a US cert to fly the Aircraft outside US airspace for the delivery/ferry flight. Then a little bit of minor paperwork, pull off the temp Vinyl Reg# sticker and Airline home.
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bizjets101
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NASA U-2 out and about . . .

http://flightaware.com/live/flight/NASA806
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kenbarls
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ryjones wrote:
http://flightaware.com/live/flight/N1KE is Phil Knight's aircraft.


Awesome aircraft! I guess a friend of mine will gonna have interest with the his aircraft. :D
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ctbonesfan
 Post subject: smokejumper DC-3
PostPosted: Mon Mar 21, 2011 11:17 am 
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DC-3 usually used for smoke jumpers. Owned by the US Forest Service going from Montana to North Dakota .

flight
http://flightaware.com/live/flight/N115Z/history/20110321/1500Z/KMSO/KBIS

background
http://www.fs.fed.us/fire/people/smokejumpers/aircraft.html
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jcisuclones1
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I was listening to JFK tower last night, and I heard Marine One come onto the frequency. President Obama was in Harlem last night for a charity dinner. It was pretty cool-however, I logged off before Air Force One took off.
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rw812
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jcisuclones1 wrote:
I was listening to JFK tower last night, and I heard Marine One come onto the frequency. President Obama was in Harlem last night for a charity dinner. It was pretty cool-however, I logged off before Air Force One took off.

It wasn't a charity dinner - it was fund raiser for the democratic party.
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jcisuclones1
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rw812 wrote:
jcisuclones1 wrote:
I was listening to JFK tower last night, and I heard Marine One come onto the frequency. President Obama was in Harlem last night for a charity dinner. It was pretty cool-however, I logged off before Air Force One took off.

It wasn't a charity dinner - it was fund raiser for the democratic party.




Thanks for the correction. I wasn't paying that close attention durring the CBS Evening News. All I heard was, Obama was in Harlem at some resturant.
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ctbonesfan
 Post subject: Re: Aircraft Worth Following
PostPosted: Wed May 18, 2011 2:36 pm 
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http://flightaware.com/live/flight/KFS100/history/20110518/1830Z/KSDF/KBWI

"Air Horse One" on its way from Louisville to Maryland. Possibly for the Preakness.
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ctbonesfan
 Post subject: Re: Aircraft Worth Following
PostPosted: Wed Jun 08, 2011 12:54 pm 
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USA Men's Soccer team on their way to Tampa from Detroit for their second match of the Gold Cup. Against Panama on Saturday

http://flightaware.com/live/flight/BSK624/history/20110608/1700Z/KDTW/KTPA
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NAPOLEON
 Post subject: Re: Aircraft Worth Following
PostPosted: Sun Sep 25, 2011 4:22 pm 
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http://flightaware.com/live/flight/JBU8 ... /KOAK/KBFI

Looks like a jet blue charter. But what would it be doing going from OAK to BFI???
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rw812
 Post subject: Re: Aircraft Worth Following
PostPosted: Sun Sep 25, 2011 5:28 pm 
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NAPOLEON wrote:
http://flightaware.com/live/flight/JBU8630/history/20110923/1600Z/KOAK/KBFI

Looks like a jet blue charter. But what would it be doing going from OAK to BFI???

Whatever the reason for the charter, it returned to OAK the next day
http://flightaware.com/live/flight/JBU8 ... /KBFI/KOAK
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Pat206
 Post subject: Re: Aircraft Worth Following
PostPosted: Mon Sep 26, 2011 7:50 am 
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NAPOLEON wrote:
http://flightaware.com/live/flight/JBU8630/history/20110923/1600Z/KOAK/KBFI

Looks like a jet blue charter. But what would it be doing going from OAK to BFI???

Oakland Athletics @ Seattle Mariners 26-28 September.
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Gundah
 Post subject: Re: Aircraft Worth Following
PostPosted: Tue Oct 04, 2011 3:46 pm 
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Anybody know what the tail number is for Amanda Knox? Rumor was that one of the big TV/Production companies was flying her back private as part of a deal to get first interview rights. I don't see anything that stands out coming in to seattle.
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mduell
 Post subject: Re: Aircraft Worth Following
PostPosted: Tue Oct 04, 2011 4:20 pm 
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Gundah wrote:
Anybody know what the tail number is for Amanda Knox? Rumor was that one of the big TV/Production companies was flying her back private as part of a deal to get first interview rights. I don't see anything that stands out coming in to seattle.


I saw a couple reports she's on BA: http://flightaware.com/live/flight/BAW4 ... /EGLL/KSEA
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NeedleNose
 Post subject: Re: Aircraft Worth Following
PostPosted: Tue Oct 04, 2011 4:41 pm 
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Amanda Knox made her way home to America on Tuesday, holing up with family on the upper deck of a jetliner to Seattle as she enjoyed her first full day of freedom since her murder conviction was reversed.

Reporters on board the British Airways flight...


http://news.yahoo.com/knox-family-head- ... 50467.html
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dadalope
 Post subject: Re: Aircraft Worth Following
PostPosted: Sun Oct 16, 2011 10:03 am 
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White Knight 2 is on the move.
http://flightaware.com/live/flight/N348 ... /KMHV/90NM
This is the aircraft that lifts the suborbital spacecraft Spaceship Two to altitude before launch. This trip takes it from home (Mojave) to Spaceport America near Truth Or Consequences, NM. Very interesting.
Photos: http://flightaware.com/photos/aircrafttype/WHKN
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dadalope
 Post subject: Re: Aircraft Worth Following
PostPosted: Sun Oct 16, 2011 4:19 pm 
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Found out why: dedication of a new facility
http://www.lcsun-news.com/las_cruces-news/ci_19124401
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About 500 people - invited guests only - are expected to attend a Virgin Galactic-hosted event Monday at the spaceport to christen the $32.5-million terminal-hangar facility, a sting ray-looking structure often depicted in spaceport images.

Gov. Susana Martinez, Congressman Steve Pearce and NASA representatives are expected to attend the ceremony, called the "Keys to a New Dawn."
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GKolo
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Weez1000 wrote:
ykmwolf wrote:
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Pending N number change to N71JN. I wonder what the new N1JN will be?


To answer my own question N601MD is Jack's new G-V


Wonder why he blocked it?


On another note, Anyone know Tiger's tail #?



Or what the Lions tail number is ?
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