Tikaboo Tales

N20NY and N404PA on a local together... ...N20NY went for a 90min trip BED-BED today with N404PA. The latter departed at 1456UTC and 'NY' at 1459.

Potted history of Lincoln Labs a good read and refers to our favourite aircraft http://www.ll.mit.edu/news/journal/pdf/12_2Dela.pdf

http://www.pacsengineering.com/experience.htm This says they're working on a load monitoring program for Lincoln Labs Special Mission G II

N74A Gulf II aka HALO-I in CA It's been flying our of Point Mugu and Monterey at the end of July but has now gone back to RVS (Tulsa, Richarrd Lloyd Jones airport) to join sistership Gulfstream 3 N178B HALO-II

N20NY - recent photo There's photos of N20NY in Canada a few years ago in a fetching red colour scheme on www.airliners.net or maybe www.jetphotos.com ; also N404PA the B707. Anyhow, N20NY has had a change of image

News on N27RA crash http://www.reviewjournal.com/lvrj_home/2004/Jul-31-Sat-2004/news/24436487.html

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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N255SA DH6 is at BED Interesting as this was playing around in California not so long ago and we wondered if it was connected with Lincoln Labs. It has also visited Eglin, FL. Flying across the USA in a DH6 must take a while! Aircraft ID N255SA Aircraft Type DEHAVILLAND DHC-6-300 Owner/Operator TWIN OTTER INTERNATIONAL LTD 4511 W CHEYENNE AVE STE 500 NORTH LAS VEGAS NEVADA Serial Number 723 Year Manufactured 1980 Certificate Issued 11/10/1999 Flight Plan Received 2004-06-25 16:02:20 from Boston Departure BED LAURENCE G HANSCOM FLD, BEDFORD MA Destination BED LAURENCE G HANSCOM FLD, BEDFORD MA Status Landed Planned Alt 7000 Feet Planned Speed 130 kts. Planned Dep 2004-06-25 16:30 Actual Dep 2004-06-25 17:04 Planned Arrival 2004-06-25 17:30 Estimated Arrival 2004-06-25 18:04 Actual Arrival 2004-06-25 17:47 Latest Speed 86 kts. Latest Altitude 0500 Feet Distance to Dest. Last Update 2004-06-25 17:44 Route BED..PS

N20NY in New Mexico again 13-Jun it flew to Perryville, MO to Albuquerque, NM and then on to Holloman AFB, NM on 14-Jun.

N404PA returns homw to Bedford, Mass from Nellis. I wonder if it actually operated from Nellis during it's week in the sun?

N20NY back to BED from Holloman On 20-May N20NY routed HMN - SGF (springfield, Missouri - BED