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Dave Lindauer
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I just caught a glimpose of a 4-engine prop flying over Dallas, probably headed to Love Field or Addison. To far away to see clearly, and I was in my office so I couldn't hear if a recip or a turbo prop. Wings looked fairly short, so maybe a P-3 Orion?
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Mike - I haven't seen one in that configuration since my last flashback.
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One of the Dallas P.D. 'flying eye' cameras? 'yeah....well I'm watching you watching him'

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Might have been a P-3. There are a couple of them based at Love Field. I've been told they're "spook" aircraft. They definitely do not carry fleet markings. The ones I've seen carry few markings at all.

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Might have been a P-3. There are a couple of them based at Love Field. I've been told they're "spook" aircraft. They definitely do not carry fleet markings. The ones I've seen carry few markings at all.

EP-3 M&M's? with the saucer under the forward fuselage

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I agree with Dean...it was most likely one of the unmarked "spook" P-3's that live at Love Field.

I caught this one departing Love one day...nothing but stars and bars on it...and some interesting protuberances.
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Cmdr Chuck Gardner and I were at lunch today in Addison and I saw a P-3 going into Love around noonish 30. They are easy to ID as all the black smoke behind them inflight...
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Funny thing is the canoe isn't exactly "classified" anymore. The system is the AN/APS-149 Littoral Surveillance Radar System. There hasn't been any confirmation (officially) but it's believed the system is destined for the P-8 Poseidon. In the meantime, the 2 NAWC-23 aircraft at Love Field and several fleet aircraft have been fitted with the system.

More info on NAWC-23 and the AN/APS-149 can be found here - http://www.p3orion.nl/sneaky.html
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