Air Force One

"BLOCKED" simply means a PPL Holder or a ATP Private Transport aircraft has filed the appropriate Privacy Requests with the FAA.

it also applies to any government aircraft such as Law Enforcement or State/Federal Government Aircraft that wishes to operate without its ID Known, including Tail Number.

as far as your photography question, again, as long as you are not including ground personnel, security vehicles, gates or any kind of Operationally Secured Activities in those photos, yes, you can photograph ANY aircraft on a runway or in the air.

Sorry, i am not at home and in a area that has minimal internet access.


i would not publicly post that information after SS Actively told them not to take photos. statute of limitations is 7 years, he can still be investigated for that. especially if said photos contain violations of USC:18-795

 

Was the helicopter in my screenshot blocked? That question was still unanswered. Do you have a screenshot that shows an example of what it shows when a aircraft is blocked? Sometimes i see aircraft on there that doesn't show anything about what type of aircraft it is and I even saw one like that landing at LAX while watching the live LAX Youtube stream and wasn't sure which aircraft it was I was seeing on ADSB.

 

no BLOCKED only shows up on FR24. ADSB uses the raw ADSB data, and since it is unfiltered, unlike FR24 that checks for privacy requests and gov filters, we still see the aircraft.

looking back at your H-60 in the screenshot, idk if it was blocked or not. i was not looking at the ADSB that day on FR24.

 

I see a A-10 flying around but it doesn't have a name for the ID just a number is this a blocked aircraft? this is what is says at the top:
78000631
Hex: AE18BA

see screenshot.

 

that happens quite frequently for combat jets even trainers with the USN, USMC And USAF. @wiedehopf can better explain that one than i can

 

It's Air Force 1 for real this time!!!!! On the way back from Biden's Europe trip. I can't believe it!!!! I've been watching for it for days. https://globe.adsbexchange.com/?icao=adfdf8

 

Confirmed: AF1 is airborne, im curious who that C-32 Behind him is, flying with that MC46 Designation. never seen that before


Looks like we have a E-4B Doomsday about 5-600 miles at his 12'clock

 

oh really? I hadn't looked at it. I'm so glazed over on AF1. I've never got to see it on here before so it's pretty exciting.

 

I see a jet on there that only has a 0 for the callsign. also see one that is n/a. is that a blocked plane?

 

I see what you are talking about on the screenshot but can't find it on the website now. it's gone. weird.

 

yeah MC46 has been going in and out of detection.

the E-4B has also gone in and out intermittently

 

so is that one plane in my screenshot a blocked plane that shows up N/A?

 

which one specifically, Oh that one.

no, it shows up as N/A because nothing is entered into the tracking info. Wiedehopf explained that to you. nothing is blocked here, but when the info is not entered for various reasons, you get n/a. this site is getting the RAW ADSB info, and does not feed to the FAA for privacy and exemption checks, like FR24 does, before it relays the info to its map.

9/10 times, you get N/A because that aircraft is exempt from having its identifiable information displayed for security reasons listed by the Gov/FAA

As far as the KC-10 Tanker, 0 is what is showing in the tracking info, because thats what is being supplied through the XPNDR.

 

the screenshot above says n/a for the callsign. it landed already at Andrews.
and here's another one that is at a high altitude i never seen one that high before. It has a callsign but everything else is n/a. would that be a fighter jet or something?

 

look at the desingation, first 5 letters, UAVGH, id put money down this is a RQ-4B Global Hawk, hence the name UAV "GH"


Grand Forks AFB is the home of the RQ-4 Squadrons. i have a buddy who just retired from Grand Forks in the USAF who was a RQ-4 Operator.

U-2's will go even higher, ive caught dozens of them after their recent refits of new datalinks and other avionics on their test flights as high as FL650 and even one at FL700 ( thats 65000 and 70000 feet )

 

I did some looking and this looks to be a drone from Grand Forks AFB. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northrop_Grumman_RQ-4_Global_Hawk

 

oh sweet. I just posted about it. I just looked at the wikipedia page for it. interesting.

 

Confirmed RQ-4B

https://twitter.com/civmilair/status/1246579940889370626?lang=en

 

another plane just popped up. SAM46