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Originally Posted by kip Foss
It might be testing airport navigation systems. Years ago there was an old twin Beech that flew all the approaches to local airports in this area once a year to make sure that they worked. The father of a friend of mine used to fly one of these planes on the East Coast.
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Interesting. I had an office at a Austin Aero, an FBO at the old Austin airport and when they were certifying the glide slopes for the new airport, the FAA used a King Air C-90 to do the approaches. Austin Aero had the government fuel contract and you never knew what you'd look up and see on the pads...a constant stream of NASA T-38s, T-34 Mentors out of NAS Corpus, Fat Albert, Blackhawks of every shape and form, FAA aircraft, you name it.