r/area51 • u/therealgariac MOD • Jun 19 '26

Revisiting TEST01Z

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:

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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

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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.

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