[FedCom] Mystery Aircraft & Radio Monitoring

[gary]

I've been tracking rendition flights for a few years. I think Wayne's 
net is a bit too big. I don't think every Gitmo plane carried prisoners. 
Remember, they had to build that camp and supply it, so many flights are 
  carrying building supplies, food, etc. The prisoner planes also made 
flights to very funky locations in Europe.  For instance, N1HC (on his 
list), is a player. But many of the planes have no known history in 
rendition. He is also missing some plane numbers, such as N505LL. [One I 
managed to photograph.]

There are pay services you can use to track these aircraft should you be 
interested in spotting them. Many can be tracked by flightaware.com.

http://www.coe.int/
You can read the Council of Europe report at the link above. It has more 
tail numbers. Be warned, the prisoner accounts are nasty.

As far as monitoring such planes, they act no differently than 
commercial aircraft since they are commercial aircraft. If you do ACARS, 
they occasionally have some interesting messages. I don't have the 
messages handy, but the ACARSD website has some archived.
http://www.acarsd.org/
I have a list of west coast ACARS here:
http://www.lazygranch.com/acars.htm

My recollection is Ken is somewhere in the northeast. This map might be 
of interest:
http://assembly.coe.int/CommitteeDocs/2006/20060606_RenditionsMap_EN.jpg
These planes often frequent FAY and JNX, which for some reason didn't 
make the diagram. Also Hanscom AFB.


Ken wrote:
> While surfing the net found an interestingly listing of aircraft tail#'s 
> that MAY provide support to the the US goverment under contract (the 
> article specifically address flights into Guantanamo Naval Base, Cuba)
> 
> See:  http://waynemadsenreport.com/  Go down to the June 10, 2006 
> edition for the list of tail#'s.
> 
> Ken
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