Tikaboo Tales

Here's a fax from MIT to FAA... Perhaps I should get in touch with the flight test manager to ask if he's got any good shots of the fleet for the website.  benkert@ll.mit.edu   Or maybe he'd like some of ours for their website.... 

Aha....suspicions condfirmed.  Two 'new' DHC6s. New additions to the Lincoln labs inventory in the 'national interest' are DHC6-300s N63AR and N255SA.  

N255SA from East to West (Hawthorne) It seems a jolly long way from Bedford, Mass to Jack Northrop Municipal, Hawthorne California in a Twin Otter.  But N255SA is doing just that and will arrive shortly on the west coast.  Presumably some wonderful sensor gizmo is to be installed, tweaked, checked....

N404PA heading west from BED   It's filed to LSV (Nellis AFB)

N232MT and N255SA back to BED   After a week at IAD, they've returned home in time for the weekend. 

N20NY has left Holloman heading home 14-Jul HMN1310UTC-SPI1510 it filed a plan onward from SPI to BED but I didn't see it go live; so either the aircraft is tech or it escaped the tracker!

IAD is the place to be.... .....another interesting aircraft has gone to Dulles today, this time N187D a CN-235. There's some photos of this and its sister ship N196D on http://www.airliners.net A friend of mine jokes about these as beng operated by 'the Langley Parachute Club'!

Maybe there's some MIT/Lincoln Labs love-in at the Pentagon tomorrow. Both N232MT a Cessna 206 and N255MA the DHC6 have gone there today

N255SA DH6 has just departed BED (at 1724UTC) for Washington-Dulles (IAD).

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