I was up close and personal with a BBJ today as he climbed though my altitude. His tail number is masked in FlightAware but he called himself Boeing ***BB. BB departed Burbank at 12:29 pm on 8-18. FlightAware shows the aircraft as a 757 but I thought it was a 737 going to Monterey. Can any one help me with a BBJ ending in BB? Blue vertical stripe on the tail.
In the screen capture I’m in Red the BBJ in Yellow climbing though my altitude. I was VFR at 9,500.
Long shot, but maybe you can find it on LiveATC.net?
Are you saying you plan to file a complaint against somebody? If so, why do you have to do your own research on this? Wouldn’t the FAA investigator be the one to dig it all out?
From the Passur image, I can see why you’d be hot under the collar. Looks tight, and coming at you fast too.
What makes you think it was a BBJ instead of a 757?
Here’s the current registry for Boeings with regs ending in BB:
nnumber | mfrname | model
---------+---------+----------------
450BB | BOEING | A75L3
770BB | BOEING | 757-200 SERIES
843BB | BOEING | 737-436
213BB | BOEING | A75N1(PT17)
Clearly N770BB (AKA Air Force 2) based out of Burbank. A close friend of President Clinton. Wonder why the 737 based out of the same airport went to North Korea? Range? I’d be a lousy witness because I thought it was blue and white but this is clearly the paint scheme.
I shot that 757 last year and even after enlarging and Photoshopping I still couldn’t see a registration. Eventually figured it out by a process of elimination using a combination of airliners.net and FA.
