Planefag that was tracking the last “Arlington” pattern. Was NOT AF1 making that path, was UV-18B Twin Otter.
AGAIN:
Airlift support for the US Air Force Academy cadet parachuting program is provided by three UV-18B aircraft which carry a pilot, copilot and up to 17 jumpers. These Twin Otters are the only three owned by the Air Force. In the MSAG Antenna Test and Evaluation conducted 25-31 August 1998 in Marina CA, the NPS/CIRPAS UV-18A Twin Otter provided the surrogate UAV function during a test and evaluation of the MSAG ITT Antenna under development by the Joint Projects Office. Imagery from the Twin Otter was received by the multi- source capable antenna based at the CIRPAS facility in Marina. In the Alaska Army National Guard the UV-18As have been replaced by the C-23B+.
https://fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/ac/uv-18.htm
Prior pattern was NOT made by AF1
Not my work!
Planefag that was tracking the last “Arlington” pattern. Was NOT AF1 making that path, was UV-18B Twin Otter.
AGAIN:
Airlift support for the US Air Force Academy cadet parachuting program is provided by three UV-18B aircraft which carry a pilot, copilot and up to 17 jumpers. These Twin Otters are the only three owned by the Air Force. In the MSAG Antenna Test and Evaluation conducted 25-31 August 1998 in Marina CA, the NPS/CIRPAS UV-18A Twin Otter provided the surrogate UAV function during a test and evaluation of the MSAG ITT Antenna under development by the Joint Projects Office. Imagery from the Twin Otter was received by the multi- source capable antenna based at the CIRPAS facility in Marina. In the Alaska Army National Guard the UV-18As have been replaced by the C-23B+.
https://fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/ac/uv-18.htm
Prior pattern was NOT made by AF1
Not my work!
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Great work for reporting it to us! THANKS!
Most interesting. Not at all being close to being a plane fag, but I can see it is relevant to correct previous notables alleging that that flight pattern over Arlington was NOT AF1.
Did any of your sources state that the notable regarding reports of the AF1 track over JFK Jr’s crash site was or was not actually AF1? I thought that both of those reports were that same AF1 trip. (Fuzzy memory here - POTUS was coming home from Europe, wasn’t he?)
And a parenthetic statement:
We keep running into 17s! from your quote: “...up to 17 jumpers...”