Photos of low flying recon aircraft at Obama's Inauguration.

[arcadian]

Still need help with identification.

Original post here:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x4873556

[Taverner]

1. Wasn't that a drone?

[arcadian]

3. No, way too big.

Drones also don't have windows. This aircraft has windows.

[katusha]

2. fairchild c-26a?

http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/ac/c-26.htm

[EOTE]

4. Well done.

This seems to have been a mystery for a few days now and this is the first aircraft that really seems to resemble it.

[katusha]

9. yes i was consternated by the original post too

haunted me for a while then i had an insight on how to search. just look at ALL twin-prop mil craft.

[arcadian]

13. I looked for quite a while too.

It had me stumped. I searched recon aircraft, surveillence aircraft, command & control aircraft, utility aircraft. I did not search cargo aircraft however. Thanks again!

[katusha]

15. no problem n/t

[Vickers]

5. RC-26B (edit: added link showing underside)

:shrug:

http://www.airliners.net/open.file/1018359/L/

[katusha]

12. great picture!!!

yes!!! finally got it :-)

[TahitiNut]

16. Yup.

[sailor65]

7. Dang

you beat me to it!

[katusha]

11. sorry bout that sailor

been lookin for it for some time now finally tracked it down :-)

[arcadian]

8. Heck yeah! Can I buy you a beer?

Or a pastry or something? :yourock:

[katusha]

10. hehe been bothering me since you first posted

just happy to find it. :-)

[sailor65]

6. That looks like a C-26

or a variant

[Historic NY]

14. They were photographing the crowds I heard to make an estimate..

that may been used by US Park Service. There was mention to getting photos to preserve the historic record of this event. They stopped doing the estimates some time back but this moment was so spectular.

[Phoonzang]

17. Cool. I'm glad we found out what the aircraft was!

I'd been wondering about it.