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Blast from the past. From 2018: This USAF Gulfstream Went Jetting Off To St. Martin
Sat Dec 22, 2018: Mystery government Gulfstream in St. Maarten
Found on Twitter this morning @PTZtv. Seems the government flew an unknown official to St. Maarten ahead of the shutdown on Thursday. Any astute DUer's able to figure out who it might be? Flew in from JB Andrews.
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Link to tweet
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This USAF Gulfstream Went Jetting Off To St. Martin Ahead Of The Impending Government Shutdown
We don’t know who, if anyone, might have gotten a jump on their holiday vacation with the help of the government-owned jet.
BY JOSEPH TREVITHICK | UPDATED DEC 21, 2018 10:37 PM
Washington, D.C. has been aflutter this week with a burst of major year-end news on U.S. government foreign and domestic policy issues. Now, a partial government shutdown seeming inevitable, right in time for the peak of the holiday season. But yesterday, a U.S. Air Force C-37A Gulfstream V VIP jet, part a unit that caters to senior members of the executive branch and Congress, flew from the nation's capital down to the island of Saint Martin in the Caribbean.
Plane spotters using online tracking software watched the C-37A, serial number 99-0404 and assigned the 99th Airlift Squadron, using the callsign SAM003, leaving Joint Base Andrews, situated just outside of Washington, D.C., and heading south on Dec. 20, 2018. A PTZtv webcam at Saint Martin's Princess Juliana International Airport recorded video of the jet taking off again on Dec. 21, 2018 and listened in on air traffic control conversations with the crew, who were using the same callsign.
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We don’t know who, if anyone, might have gotten a jump on their holiday vacation with the help of the government-owned jet.
BY JOSEPH TREVITHICK | UPDATED DEC 21, 2018 10:37 PM
Washington, D.C. has been aflutter this week with a burst of major year-end news on U.S. government foreign and domestic policy issues. Now, a partial government shutdown seeming inevitable, right in time for the peak of the holiday season. But yesterday, a U.S. Air Force C-37A Gulfstream V VIP jet, part a unit that caters to senior members of the executive branch and Congress, flew from the nation's capital down to the island of Saint Martin in the Caribbean.
Plane spotters using online tracking software watched the C-37A, serial number 99-0404 and assigned the 99th Airlift Squadron, using the callsign SAM003, leaving Joint Base Andrews, situated just outside of Washington, D.C., and heading south on Dec. 20, 2018. A PTZtv webcam at Saint Martin's Princess Juliana International Airport recorded video of the jet taking off again on Dec. 21, 2018 and listened in on air traffic control conversations with the crew, who were using the same callsign.
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