[Scan-DC] Interesting aircraft over Seven Corners

[Albert LaFrance]

And the Seven Corners area has been a favorite haunt of FBI aircraft (at
least the fixed-wing variety) for years.

Albert LaFrance 

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>[mailto:scan-dc-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of freqhopping
>Sent: Friday, July 31, 2009 11:07 PM
>To: scan-dc at mailman.qth.net; Charles Lawson
>Subject: Re: [Scan-DC] Interesting aircraft over Seven Corners
>
>Could it have been a helicopter?  An FBI Bell 407 was airborne 
>at the time and as high 5500ft.  I'm not sure of it 
>whereabouts though at the time.  It seems to have returned to 
>Manassas around 2245.
>
>
>Travis
>
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Charles Lawson" <clawson at capaccess.org>
>To: <scan-dc at mailman.qth.net>
>Sent: Friday, July 31, 2009 10:52 PM
>Subject: [Scan-DC] Interesting aircraft over Seven Corners
>
>
>> At 22:30 on Friday, 2009-07-31, I spotted an unusual 
>aircraft loitering
>> above Seven Corners.  It was very slow-moving with a double 
>set of bright
>> (LED, probably) navigation lights (red/port, 
>green/starboard--as typical
>> for aircraft except for the doubled setup).  I could discern 
>no planform
>> even with 11x80 binoculars, but I could hear a faint engine 
>sound that
>> didn't quite conform to the typical aircraft noise I am used 
>to hearing
>> around these parts.  The aircraft did briefly flash a 
>close-set pair of
>> white (landing?) lights on the nose, but I couldn't spot any other
>> details.  After a couple of minutes, it disappeared behind 
>trees heading
>> vaguely south.
>>
>> Did anyone else see it?  Are UAVs being operated in this 
>area currently,
>> to anyone's knowledge?  Did I miss notification of a NORAD exercise?
>>
>> Interesting.  No other air traffic was observed at the same time.
>>
>> --
>> Charles Lawson <clawson at capaccess.org>
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