4 April - PAT590 and PAT591

[cornwall01]

Hi

Wonder anyone could help with this query please. Currently heading towards Lands End at 20k feet, from the Jersey direction are PAT590 and 591. These are Fairchild C-26’s and are showing mode s codes of ADFD74 and ADFD76. They are showing on different tracking software as 91-0507 and 91-0504 for the first one and 91-0506 and 92-0371 for the second one. Just to confuse things more a search of the mode s codes also brings up 91-0514 for the first one as well. Can anyone shed some light on these please. Just off to see if I can make them out in the clear blue Cornish skies.

[rh226]

They are:-

"PAT590" [ADFD76] = 91-00506

"PAT591" [ADFD74] = 91-00507.......miscoded box, should be ADFD77

Also, these were the only C-26s that were "out East".  They went Eastbound through Glasgow in September and October 2019 (respectively), when the hex codes were checked against the serials..

Cheers,

Bob

Additional Info:-

1.) 91-0504 is an RC-26B and is USAF, not US Army.  Therefore it would not use a "PATxxx" callsign

2.) 91-0514 and 92-0371 have both been transferred to the US Navy.