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PostPosted: Mon Aug 31, 2020 9:16 am 
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Subtract 1 Bearcat and 1 Texan. There was an incident at Wheeler Army Airfield today.


What happened?

Bearcat reported a brake failure after taxiing into a large fire extinguisher one propblade departed and hit a T-6's engine. Both were left decidedly non-airworthy.

https://www.asias.faa.gov/apex/f?p=100: ... 20,GRUMMAN


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PostPosted: Sat Sep 05, 2020 3:37 pm 
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There are at least 183 Douglas DC-3's (of all variants and modifications) flying:


Flightradar24 has tracked 184 - it would be great if you were able to cross-check. They only show one in NZ - I understand why they missed ZK-JGB, but both the other two are quite active (i.e. weekly scheduled return flights for ZK-AMY, 2/3 passenger flights a month for ZK-DAK) outside winter.

https://www.flightradar24.com/blog/the- ... -the-dc-3/

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... Flightradar24 doesn’t pick up every DC-3 flight as many still flying are not equipped with ADS-B and MLAT tracking is difficult in remote areas. For instance the DC-3 remains a workhorse for small cargo and passenger airlines in remote sections of Colombia – and those don’t often show up. However our data shows 184 DC-3 airplanes as recently active, a number that represents most of those still flying. A number of these perform aerial displays or flights for enthusiasts, but there are plenty that run missions like cargo runs in Canada’s remote north.


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I wonder how recent they consider "recent" to be. I also know of at least one DC-3 that when I searched it on Flightaware a while back, it showed up on there, with a brief blip of an implied flight a couple years ago, but has actually been static for many years.

I updated the DC-3 list just a couple days ago, adding two (N844TH and C-GOOU), but I had to go back in just now and remove one (N141PR, as I found that is the same airframe that is now C-GOOU).


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You have to be cautious using flightaware, just for fun I put in the tail number of my Ercoupe, it showed I had made a 20 min flight in the Barstow area, thing is, I have never flown in that area, and I have never been in the area with the Ercoupe, and it was not even airworthy at the time.

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There are 12 Polikarpov fighters in the world (only a few flown):
United States: (I-16 "N30425" (**registration canceled**)

Kermit Weeks bought this one and it was reregistered, with the same marks, on July 10 last year and is current. I think it needs a bit of work before it flies again, however!

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Thank you Zac!


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Matt Gunsch wrote:
You have to be cautious using flightaware, just for fun I put in the tail number of my Ercoupe, it showed I had made a 20 min flight in the Barstow area, thing is, I have never flown in that area, and I have never been in the area with the Ercoupe, and it was not even airworthy at the time.



A couple of months ago I was walking my dog and I noticed a very low 787...heading East at about 2-3000 agl. Odd to see a jetliner that low.
I'm about 20 miles east of the nearest airline field, so it wasn't inbound or outbound from that.

I returned home and looked it up, it was no surprise that it was listed as a Boeing test flight.

The odd part was looking at the FA map.
It showed the aircraft several miles SW of where I saw it, easy to judge since their map had it West of a nearby highway...whereas when it flew directly over me, I was well east of the highway. Additionally, its online track was SW-NE, whereas when I saw it, it was heading due East.

So don't believe everything you read or see.

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Flightaware doesn't pretend to be anything that it isn't. As the site clearly explains, its sweet spot is tracking IFR flight planned scheduled commercial flights. In an attempt to provide what info it can about other types of flights, it has scattered receivers around the country/world to pick up anyone else who is squawking. Think what a task this is. Most flights evade its detection entirely, no doubt. Others may be picked up just for a moment, and the telemetry and even the tail number might be incorrect or incomplete. Or it might pick up an aircraft at a couple of different times and do a best-guess but incorrect interpolation as to its route.

Despite all this, it is impressive what it can pick up in some of the better covered areas.

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Not totally true August. FlightAware still receives the majority of its data directly from ATC radars (not just in the US). It then supplements this with the various ADS-B networks to pick up aircraft not being tracked by radar.

The disconnect comes from the fact that both the FAA and some operators are able to intentionally offset and/or obscure their data on both the radar and the ADS-B. When you see a track that appears several miles offset, just remember that most likely that is the case. All radar-only/radar-primary tracks are also delayed by up to 15 minutes from real time for security reasons (that's an FAA thing, not FlightAware). Also, raw data tracks from non-ADS-B sources can be offset because for various reasons, including the ground receivers. MLAT tracks are especially notorious for this. MLAT is usually non-IFR flights with Mode-S transponders or military IFF transponders. You will see these most prominently on the ADSBExchange website. The more ground receivers that can "see" the transponder/IFF, the more accurate the track, but if they're low level (like in the case above) there may only be 2 or 3 sites picking it up at any given time, so the positioning will be much less reliable.


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The Bearcat hit the extinguisher and veered into the T-6. This was actually a ground collision, not just a flyaway prop blade.
Warbirdnerd wrote:
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Warbirdnerd wrote:
Subtract 1 Bearcat and 1 Texan. There was an incident at Wheeler Army Airfield today.


What happened?

Bearcat reported a brake failure after taxiing into a large fire extinguisher one propblade departed and hit a T-6's engine. Both were left decidedly non-airworthy.

https://www.asias.faa.gov/apex/f?p=100: ... 20,GRUMMAN


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Probably worth noting that Spitfire Mk.VIII MV154 is now based in the UK at Duxford.


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Thank you Fury, it will be right to change that. I've heard that a Spitfire from the States is recently now back in the UK again too, as of this summer, but waiting to make the change until it's in the public domain/flying in the UK.


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Down a B-25 and T-33,


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Although, I think the T-33 is much more easily repairable than the B-25. This September has been horrible for airplane crashes, especially fatal ones, so I still take these two as near wins since neither involved fatalities.


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JohnTerrell wrote:
On the WIX Facebook page, Jacob McKenney has reported that the DC-3 N130Q, at Greenville Municipal Airport (K3B1), is back on its EDO floats again, the world's only DC-3 on floats, and is going to be made airworthy for a new owner in Alaska.

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Did some float flying to Birches on Moosehead Lake today for lunch, the DC-3 is still there on floats.

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