PZL W-3 Sokół
Poland05 January 2023
11:36
Aircraft
PZL-Świdnik is now owned by Leonardo.Origin : EGHL
EGHL
Lasham
England
United KingdomElevation : 188m / 618ft
Coordinates : 51°10′14″N 1°1′1″W
Comment
This is a bit odd.This Polish W3 appears to be flying with an RAF Chinook from an RAF base.
That is odd.
Adding to the oddity is the fact that it has a callsign/flight-number normally associated with RAF machines.
The ADS-B is wrong and is associated with another RAF Chinook ZK563 and the ADS-B does not 'belong' to that H47 either. But there really is an 0581, here it is.
To round it all off they appear to be using a 'trick' we've seen before : the RAF Akrotiri Tornadoes also like to fly practically on top of each other so two EUFIs look like one, just like here with ZK561, making it a confusing picture.
It's possible the PZL W3 was 'stored' at Lasham, maybe even 'transferred' to the RAF and is being ferried to RAF Horham Airfield for example.
Of course, the most likely story is that this is ZK563 with a 'wrong' ADS-B which confuses the trackers. So this is ZK561 and ZK563 buzzing around in the UK. Nothing odd about that.
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