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Latest Model: DC-3C
Last Military Serial: 42-32802 USAAF
Construction Number: 09028
Last Civil Registration: N92578
Latest Owner or Location: Airborne Imaging Leasing Llc, Midlothian, TX
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...more, including photos, by clicking atThe USAF Tested an Advanced, Modular Sensor Pod on a Vintage Airliner
Private contractors use a DC-3 to give the service's engineers a "Lab-In-The-Sky" ahead of tests on an MQ-9 Reaper.
The U.S. Air Force is testing a state-of-the-art sensor package, called AgilePod, which it hopes will ultimately offer all-new capabilities for surveillance aircraft and drones, such as the MQ-9 Reaper. But the service picked a decidedly less advanced platform for the initial flight tests, the venerable Douglas DC-3.
In June 2017, the Blue Guardian Program, part of the Air Force Research Laboratory’s Sensors Directorate, revealed that it had sent a prototype AgilePod – which is a registered U.S. government trademark by the way – aloft on a contractor’s DC-3 ahead of plans to install it on an MQ-9. As such, they had dubbed the experiments Project Harvest Reaper.
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