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Steffan Watkins

Feb 11 • 11 tweets • 9 min read

🇨🇦 Canadians need to spend more time discussing American aircraft flying surveillance patterns over #Ottawa; Canada's Capital city.
• Who are they?
• Who do they work for?
• What are they collecting?
• How long do they keep our data?
• How do they protect our data?
#N330TT

The aircraft of interest is this one, but these pictures were taken before it was modified with intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) equipment.

aircraft.com/aircraft/22422…

We can track them using the #ADSBexchange network of transponder receivers, despite their request to the FAA that nobody track their movements.

I reviewed their ADS-B flight tracks from 2021-03-31 to present day, and was surprised to find several times the plane appears out of thin air, in a region of good coverage; they seem to be trying to obfuscate their movements.
globe.adsbexchange.com/?icao=a3978

🇺🇸 The American-registered King Air 350 is shown to be owned by... N807EV LLC. I'd call that a shell company. 🕵️

N807EV LLC
1232 CHOPTANK RD
MIDDLETOWN, DE
19709-9038
USA

...but they fly out of Hagerstown, which is important.

#N330TT #A3978A
registry.faa.gov/AircraftInquir…

Yesterday we got a look at the plane, from a distance, and it can be seen to have an additional area for equipment under their belly; that's a new feature that wasn't in the pictures posted earlier.

https://twitter.com/edgarmtoro/status/1491841577068683275?s=20&t=EJlWzH9wZ7CxNcu2SP92YQ

Believed to be for SAR, I don't think they're too limited regarding how much else they can carry, they may not be limited to Synthetic Aperture Radar alone.

https://twitter.com/monarchiav/status/1491870965885804544?s=20&t=EJlWzH9wZ7CxNcu2SP92YQ

(yesterday's thread for continuity and credit to those who replied)

https://twitter.com/steffanwatkins/status/1491833937869557763?s=20&t=EJlWzH9wZ7CxNcu2SP92YQ

From their tracks, I believe they're tampering with their transponder. Normal civilian aircraft don't do that, they can't.

2022-02-10 #N330TT #A3978A #CAVE033
globe.adsbexchange.com/?icao=a3978a&l…

In July of 2021 the same aircraft #N330TT #A3978A was very active over #Ottawa doing unknown ISR operations, collecting data for hours.

Spying on you. 🕵️

I don't think they'd collect SAR imagery with these orbits.

globe.adsbexchange.com/?icao=a3978a&l…

🇺🇸 American-registered ISR aircraft #N330TT (#A3978A), has been noticed doing orbits over Ottawa for hours on end, flew from #Ottawa #CYOW to Buffalo #KBUF, this afternoon.

They had been operating without using their Mode-S / ADS-B transponder earlier. 🕵️
globe.adsbexchange.com/?icao=a3978a&l…

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👮 🛩️ 👋

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wwwapps.tc.gc.ca/Saf-Sec-Sur/2/…

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"Province Of Ontario, Ministry of Community Safety and Correctional Services"

Now you have a list of all their aircraft. 👍
wwwapps.tc.gc.ca/Saf-Sec-Sur/2/…

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👉 globe.adsbexchange.com/?reg=C-FOPS,C-…

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#CCGSHudson

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Follow me down the rabbit hole. 🧵

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#ZZ171
#ZZ173
#ZZ178

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