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Beechcraft Super King Air 350 (1100266)
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Wow, that aircraft is bristling with electronics pods and antennae all over! What is the military designation of this one? Great photo!
Possibly the Enhanced Medium Altitude Reconnaissance and Surveillance System (EMARSS-S)
According to my AF CSO son he says the a/c is a MC-12
I think you can make just about anything fly with a PT-6 turboprop engine!
good pic and a good platform for air intel gathering
Holy Cow!Never head of this one! VERY Interesting! Thank you!
@Tom Keliher:
Wikipedia has an article on the Beechcraft C-12 family, which is based on the Beech King Air series: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beechcraft_C-12_Huron#King_Air_350-based_variants
The same article has a pic of an MC-12 Liberty aircraft: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:427th_Reconnaissance_Squadron_MC-12_10-0728.jpg
The aircraft in this photo looks somewhat different than the one in the Wiki picture, which indicates to me that this may be a slightly different variant.
The AF Serial Number of the bird in the Wiki pic (10-0728) shows up in Joe Baugher's AF Ser.No. database: http://cgibin.rcn.com/jeremy.k/cgi-bin/gzUsafSearch.pl?target=&content=MC-12W+Liberty
However, this particular part of the database hasn't been updated since March of 2016, so it could be that the bird in this photo (10266) may have been delivered since that date.
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Ah-Ha!
Finally found some additional info here: https://www.jetphotos.com/registration/11-00266
Aircraft is an MC-12S Huron, US Army SerNo 11-00266, Beechcraft serial no. FL-734. Earliest photo that I could find is from April 2016.
Wikipedia has an article on the Beechcraft C-12 family, which is based on the Beech King Air series: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beechcraft_C-12_Huron#King_Air_350-based_variants
The same article has a pic of an MC-12 Liberty aircraft: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:427th_Reconnaissance_Squadron_MC-12_10-0728.jpg
The aircraft in this photo looks somewhat different than the one in the Wiki picture, which indicates to me that this may be a slightly different variant.
The AF Serial Number of the bird in the Wiki pic (10-0728) shows up in Joe Baugher's AF Ser.No. database: http://cgibin.rcn.com/jeremy.k/cgi-bin/gzUsafSearch.pl?target=&content=MC-12W+Liberty
However, this particular part of the database hasn't been updated since March of 2016, so it could be that the bird in this photo (10266) may have been delivered since that date.
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Ah-Ha!
Finally found some additional info here: https://www.jetphotos.com/registration/11-00266
Aircraft is an MC-12S Huron, US Army SerNo 11-00266, Beechcraft serial no. FL-734. Earliest photo that I could find is from April 2016.
@David Seider: Thank you for the detailed info! :)
I could be wrong, but I think one of these's was what I was watching almost every night flying and maping the fires every night this summer from northern ca. all the way to SD.
Would that be Army Guard or Air Guard inventory?
Be still my heart! Are they letting the ARMY have fixed wing ACFT again!?! IADT!
Army Air Corps ?
skylab72 - Yes! The Army also has four (4) Beechcraft T-6D Texan II aircraft...
https://flightaware.com/photos/view/1229232-fec93a7945b0ef72ac7668509ab296b73c405785/user/firefly62/sort/votes/page/1
https://flightaware.com/photos/view/1229232-fec93a7945b0ef72ac7668509ab296b73c405785/user/firefly62/sort/votes/page/1
Here's USAF info which lists it as an intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance platform.
https://www.af.mil/About-Us/Fact-Sheets/Display/Article/104497/mc-12/
https://www.af.mil/About-Us/Fact-Sheets/Display/Article/104497/mc-12/
This is a really good photo .It just begins to show all of the antennas on it.Lots of bubble domes also .The 1st time i seen the MC - 12 i had no idea what it was but after some research i found out about this truly impressive airplane .
I had been in aviation management and worked at a Beech dealer which did tons of MRO on every Beech out there so my ole big head thought i knew all about Beech airplanes .Wrong wrong wrong , when the MC-12 did a practice approach here one day i got my bubble popped . What an impressive aircraft it is and has many capabilities .One that has a passion for military aircraft like i do would really enjoy reading about it .
I had been in aviation management and worked at a Beech dealer which did tons of MRO on every Beech out there so my ole big head thought i knew all about Beech airplanes .Wrong wrong wrong , when the MC-12 did a practice approach here one day i got my bubble popped . What an impressive aircraft it is and has many capabilities .One that has a passion for military aircraft like i do would really enjoy reading about it .
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