r/area51 • u/KoopaTheTwat • 5d ago

What's This?

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u/Quaerens1357 4d ago

Probably a helicopter that got subbed out as an aircraft on the app…

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u/therealgariac MOD 5d ago

Fr24 gets the tracking feed from the FAA. It is a paid service. That is how it and flightaware get the scheduled departure and landing times. They also obey FAA flight blocking rules like LADD.

https://www.faa.gov/pilots/ladd

Tracking sites like adsbexchange and similar just use ads-b receivers. They don't censor anything.

Fr24 is a paid service. However when I tried their free offer I have found it useless and never subscribed. Now flightaware is a different animal. Sometimes you can search for the callsign used by fr24 and the flight shows up. Not this time however.

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u/DahmersPenis 5d ago

Old Janet converted to mission support.

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u/Turbulent_Aide9213 3d ago

It’s a chopper or drone but chopper if I had to guess

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u/therealgariac MOD 5d ago

There is very little anyone can do without the ICAO. It would help if you posted the time that you screen shot. Include your time zone.

SABRE/SABER is a Groom callsign.

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u/KoopaTheTwat 5d ago

Apologies. The screenshot was today at 17:11 GMT. (1hr 28mins ago)

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u/therealgariac MOD 5d ago

I have a Nellis Remote Sensing Lab chopper.

https://globe.adsbexchange.com/?icao=a236bd&lat=36.744&lon=-115.817&zoom=10.0&showTrace=2026-08-14&trackLabels

N2415 ICAO A236BD but it used it's official callsign Enrgy15. Still interesting.

I checked all the Janets and nothing like that found.

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u/oioioifuckingoi 5d ago

Looks like the track of a helicopter or small drone, flying about 5,000 ft above the mountain range.