Pretty cheap Cessna for anything official. Could be a rental plane outfitted for fire or pipeline work which is why you see the IR pods. We have them monitoring pipelines around here occasionally. Of course, that is assuming it is an IR pod and not something like a parachute. They have them attached for lighter and training aircraft now. Pretty cool.
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