[Scan-DC] Interesting "test" airplane showing up on ADS-B

[Polo Hat]

That'd be a Test Target Generator.  Should have indicated FL 600 so civil &
most military traffic ignores it, & usually there's an FAA NOTAM regarding
it.

Mitre has an FAA contract to help evaluate some ADS-B stuff.

Tim
Las Vegas

On Saturday, October 22, 2016, Andrew Clegg <andrew_w_clegg at hotmail.com>
wrote:

> I just started running ADS-B on my Raspberry Pi and feeding data to
> Flightaware.com. One of the interesting decodes is a "plane" with the Ident
> of "MTRTEST3," which is stationary, and corresponds in Google Earth to a
> location coincident with one of MITRE's office buildings in Tysons. The
> ICAO hex code is ADFC2C.
>
>
> I guess MITRE is running an experimental ADS-B transmitter on its roof?
> Anyone know what specifically they're experimenting with?
>
>
> I checked the FCC's experimentals and there's nothing registered for that
> site at 1090 MHz. MITRE could be working off an NTIA authorization, which
> wouldn't show up in the FCC's database. Looks like they've been pretty
> active in developing the whole ADS-B technology, so it makes sense they
> would have an experimental system. Kind of odd to have a stationary
> airplane show up in the data though!
>
>
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