The aircraft you don't expect to see on Flightradar24: another "black" C-32

David Cenciotti

Today at 22.19 GMT:

Looks like Foreign Emergency Support Team C-32s are quite active these days……and doesn’t care about transmitting their information directly in the Public Domain.

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David Cenciotti is a journalist based in Rome, Italy. He is the Founder and Editor of “The Aviationist”, one of the world’s most famous and read military aviation blogs. Since 1996, he has written for major worldwide magazines, including Air Forces Monthly, Combat Aircraft, and many others, covering aviation, defense, war, industry, intelligence, crime and cyberwar. He has reported from the U.S., Europe, Australia and Syria, and flown several combat planes with different air forces. He is a former 2nd Lt. of the Italian Air Force, a private pilot and a graduate in Computer Engineering. He has written five books and contributed to many more ones.

Patrick says:

May 10, 2011 at 4:30 AM

If they’re flying over U.S airspace, then there’s no need for their movements to be secret. In fact, since the C-32 is based off a civilian airliner, and it probably flying through civilian airspace, keeping its flight pattern secret would greatly increase the risk of a mid-air collision.

Even when we flew B-2’s on strike missions into Libya and Iraq, they still had to talk to air-traffic controllers over public frequencies before going tactical. Anyone who wanted to listen to those communications could have, and some did so.
Polyteknik says:

May 11, 2011 at 1:44 PM

00-9001 is in the air again today (as shown on FlightRadar24), headed towards Andrews AFB, as of 08:44 EST.