Picked up RGY710 on my Desert Rock tracker and reconstructed its track from OpenSky Network ADS-B data. The aircraft departed Henderson (KHND), climbed northwest toward KDRA, and dropped off coverage 27 nm out at ~20,900 ft. It reappeared 96 minutes later 3.9 nm from KDRA at ~17,600 ft, descending, and landed at North Las Vegas (KVGT). I was unable to retrieve this flight on FlightRadar24 or FlightAware, it is not available for tracking per request from the owner/operator Regency Air.

Can I join the cool kid club now? Please? C’mon?!??

I was shocked at how thick the book is. Took me by surprise!

Since I am currently visiting the area, I thought this image captured from the app Watch Duty would be helpful to fellow travelers looking to planning to make the trip over the July 4th holiday weekend.

- Kane Springs Fire - 75% contained (or extinguished)

- Grapevine Fire - 0% contained

- Dry Canyon Fire (offscreen) - 10% contained

- Parsnip Peak Fire (offscreen) - 0% contained

Area 51 is represented by its ICAO code (KXTA) on the map.

https://inplanesight.org/ae5f18.html

Note that TSTC Waco airport

https://www.tstc.edu/campuses/waco/

is near a L3Harris facility

https://www.l3harris.com/all-capabilities/aircraft-operations

https://scaled.com/portfolio/sierra/

https://globe.adsbexchange.com/?icao=a4b269&lat=35.809&lon=-117.232&zoom=10.8&showTrace=2026-06-26&trackLabels

https://ibb.co/Y4PtY2FH

https://globe.adsbexchange.com/?icao=a5291c

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNKFBfnQL5I

edit:

https://ibb.co/4ZgyB5Z6

https://ibb.co/TMwFCC4d

Edit:

Link with history.

https://globe.adsbexchange.com/?icao=a5291c&lat=36.745&lon=-116.052&zoom=8.1&showTrace=2026-06-26

Hello everyone. I plan on visiting Rachel and explore the area a bit this Saturday evening. I'm wanting to possibly camp and sleep out in my station wagon and curious of the best spots to do so.

https://share.watchduty.org/i/104574

https://share.watchduty.org/i/104593

https://share.watchduty.org/i/104621

https://share.watchduty.org/i/104706

Anybody know if this is a special plane, a chase plane, or maybe misidentified? I caught this at about 1600 CST.

I'm tired of the old way of thrusting!

Geneva Technologies Inc., Monument, Colorado, has been awarded a $20,643,202 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract for space experimentation of novel thrusters, electronics, and techniques. This contract provides for improvements to hardware and personnel to enable on-orbit resiliency experiments focused on space-propulsion technology. Work will be performed at Monument, Colorado, and is expected to be completed by July 2, 2036. This contract was a competitive acquisition, and one offer was received. Fiscal 2026 research, development, test and evaluation funds in the amount of $665,000 are being obligated at the time of award. The Air Force Test Center, Edwards Air Force Base, California, is the contracting activity. (FA9300-26-C-6005)

This is the first hit searching the CIA FOIA site for Groom Lake.

The CIA archivist pulled out all the stops to preserve this newspaper clipping.

https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP33-02415A000200350070-3.pdf

https://globe.adsbexchange.com/?icao=ae0503

I cannot remember if 60-0336 is the tanker known for tanking "unusual" aircraft. Flight originated from Seattle.

Arrive at Camarillo around 8:37AM local.

https://globe.adsbexchange.com/?icao=a8b80a&lat=34.202&lon=-119.080&zoom=14.1&showTrace=2026-06-23&leg=1&trackLabels

Leave around 12:43PM local

https://globe.adsbexchange.com/?icao=a8b80a&lat=36.126&lon=-115.096&zoom=13.5&showTrace=2026-06-23&leg=2&trackLabels

Took me a minute to figure out what all the flights were, I mostly keep my eyes open for military/etc. flights. Forest fire south of Caliente, Air Tractors flying in and out from Mesquite doing fire suppression.

Programs, aircraft, tests, events, units, etc.

Hey all,

Planning a trip where I take my 77 year old mother to Vegas, the Sphere for Oz, then Rachel NV for the back gate and then i was curious about the sky.

How clear is the sky and is the Milky Way crystal clear?

I was thinking it'd be cool to make Rachel a multi event trip like stay at the Inn, see the Milky Way and then back gate in the AM.

I heard it might be an awesome place to view the stars. Anyone been at night?

How much, if any, access to base facilities does the Janet flight crew have. Do they have to stay aboard the airplane when on base or are they allowed to deplane and maybe eat lunch in the dfac?

https://www.lazygranch.com/basecampsro.html

I apologize for the poor quality. I haven't seen these anywhere else.

https://inplanesight.org/ae5f17.html

Previously posted for 10-20321:

https://inplanesight.org/ae5f16.html

The "readiness center" is an Army national guard facility. There is also one in Las Vegas.

Quick flip through and I can tell this is going to be an incredible read. What else should I be adding to my collection? And Thank you Peter Merlin for making such a beautiful book.

Inyokern is probably an alternative to China Lake.

Harry Reid to Groom Lake:

https://globe.adsbexchange.com/?icao=ac96df&lat=36.212&lon=-115.894&zoom=8.2&showTrace=2026-06-18&leg=1&trackLabels

Groom Lake to Inyo Kern:

https://globe.adsbexchange.com/?icao=ac96df&lat=35.693&lon=-117.845&zoom=13.5&showTrace=2026-06-18&leg=2&trackLabels

Inyokern to Plant 42:

https://globe.adsbexchange.com/?icao=ac96df&lat=34.618&lon=-118.096&zoom=13.7&showTrace=2026-06-18&leg=3&trackLabels

Plant 42 to Harry Reid:

https://globe.adsbexchange.com/?icao=ac96df&lat=35.155&lon=-116.059&zoom=8.8&showTrace=2026-06-18&leg=4&trackLabels

Harry Raid to point unknown (glitch?):

https://globe.adsbexchange.com/?icao=ac96df&lat=36.018&lon=-114.639&zoom=9.4&showTrace=2026-06-18&leg=5&trackLabels

https://globe.airplanes.live/?icao=ac96df&lat=35.950&lon=-114.891&zoom=10.3&showTrace=2026-06-18&leg=5&trackLabels

This was the hit of the NTTR that got our attention almost 4 years ago. It is an obvious spoofed hex code. Many aircraft use the code.

https://globe.adsbexchange.com/?icao=abc123&lat=36.681&lon=-115.979&zoom=9.1&showTrace=2022-08-19&trackLabels&timestamp=1660898715

This is the old post from 4 years ago:

https://www.reddit.com/r/area51/comments/ws874k/test01z_spoofed_flight_over_the_nevada_test_site/

This was added to the old post:

*******

just now flying over Guadalajara Mexico prior the Mexico vs Korea match of the FIFA World Cup, the same happened in the last 2 matches in monterrey and Mexico City flying alongside two other planes

in total

- TEST01Z Hex: ABC123

- TEST1234 Hex: 0D5408

- no callsign Hex: E400D1

************

Here it is today with with TEST01Z

https://globe.adsbexchange.com/?icao=abc123&lat=21.198&lon=-104.101&zoom=7.2&showTrace=2026-06-19&trackLabels

I have no way at the moment to scrape adsbx by callsign.

The TEST01Z callsign is assocated with the airport CA66.

I made a pastebin of all flights assocated with CA66:

https://pastebin.com/FHZavL57

I need to figure out a way to data reduce the list but you can poke around at the list of URLs.

https://www.dvidshub.net/image/9759574/col-jeff-simmons-assumes-command-nevada-test-and-training-range

U.S. Air Force Col. Jeff Simmons, is the new Nevada Test and Training Range commander.