The research in this feature is the latest update from Dan Dowling of Shannonwatch.
Compiling records of military aircraft identifies British Army surveillance.
This map shows seven days of all military aircraft around the world. Each dot on the map yileds the ICAO code of a military plane or helicopter, the army it belongs to, and the day it was recorded.
This map is interactive so it can for example filter out just USA aircraft
Ireland
This video is just a guide, I focus on British Surveillance after about five minutes. British surveillance is being conducted by Britten Norman Defenders and helicopters. At least two planes were recorded yesterday, August 4th.
These planes have an electro-optical turret under the nose – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Britten-Norman_Defender
These planes are used in Iraq – https://web.archive.org/web/20110417211226/http://www.spyflight.co.uk/defender.htm
The Britten Norman Defenders are army aircraft not police aircraft.
http://www.ads-b.nl/index.php?pageno=3001&checkcountry=United%20Kingdom&checktype=BN2T
These planes fly and at low altitude and too frequently to still be in testing. There are hundreds of records in the links below.
Example One ZH001
August 4th https://flight-data.adsbexchange.com/map?icao=43C2B7&date=2019-08-04
All Records https://flight-data.adsbexchange.com/activity?inputSelect=icao&icao=43C2B7
When using all records the most recent records are at the top of the page.
There may be records for as far back as January 2018.
Open a link to see the flight path of the plane. (It is a good idea to use right click to open.)
A typical example May 29th 2018
Example Two ZG845 August 4th
August 4th https://flight-data.adsbexchange.com/map?icao=43C385&date=2019-08-04
All records https://flight-data.adsbexchange.com/activity?inputSelect=icao&icao=43C385
This is not a comprehensive list of the 2019 British Army surveillance fleet.
Registration | Species | Last Date in 2019 |
XZ290 | Aerospatiale Helicopter | August |
ZG669 | Aerospatiale Helicopter | August |
ZH001 | Britten-Norman Defender AL.2 | August |
ZH003 | Britten-Norman Defender AL.2 | August |
ZH005 | Britten-Norman Defender AL.2 | August |
ZG845 | Britten-Norman Islander AL.1 | August |
ZH004 | Britten-Norman Defender T.3 | July |
ZG848 | Britten-Norman Islander AL.1 | July |
XW847 | Aerospatiale Helicopter | June |
ZG997 | Britten-Norman Defender AL.2 | June |
ZB679 | Aerospatiale Helicopter | February |
ZH002 | Britten-Norman Defender AL.2 | January |
Registration | Flight Records |
XZ290 | https://flight-data.adsbexchange.com/activity?inputSelect=icao&icao=43C0CC |
ZG669 | https://flight-data.adsbexchange.com/activity?inputSelect=icao&icao=43C228 |
ZH001 | https://flight-data.adsbexchange.com/activity?inputSelect=icao&icao=43C2B7 |
ZH003 | https://flight-data.adsbexchange.com/activity?inputSelect=icao&icao=43C2B9 |
ZH005 | https://flight-data.adsbexchange.com/activity?inputSelect=icao&icao=43C56A |
ZG845 | https://flight-data.adsbexchange.com/activity?inputSelect=icao&icao=43C385 |
ZH004 | https://flight-data.adsbexchange.com/activity?inputSelect=icao&icao=43C2BA |
ZG848 | https://flight-data.adsbexchange.com/activity?inputSelect=icao&icao=43C388 |
XW847 | https://flight-data.adsbexchange.com/activity?inputSelect=icao&icao=43C07D |
ZG997 | https://flight-data.adsbexchange.com/activity?inputSelect=icao&icao=43C129 |
ZB679 | https://flight-data.adsbexchange.com/activity?inputSelect=icao&icao=43C22F |
ZH002 | https://flight-data.adsbexchange.com/activity?inputSelect=icao&icao=43C2B8 |