Tikaboo Tales

Meanwhile N404PA is off too to WRI = McGuire AFB. Haven't seen it go there before.

The Twin Otter N255SA is off again This time from North Las Vegas to Point Mugu

N105TB BED-BGR-BED ....on 22-Sep.

N105TB and N232MT back to BED Both flew back from MHT to BED yesterday

N105TB on a local from MHT Manchester, NH I believe

N20NY to TEB and back today It filed to TEB but filed via SWF (Stewart-Newburgh Intl, NY) on the return. I guess it's been shooting some approaches there. The Lincoln Labs fleet have an affinity for SWF - see the photos of N404PA on jetphotos (or is it aitliners.net?)

N20NY back to BED it routed EGI (Eglin Aux 3) via RDU (Raleigh-Durham) back home for the weekend

N20NY via Little Rock to Eglin today Destination was EGI which comes up as Eglin Aux number 3!

N20NY on a local to Portsmouth, NH

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.