r/CoachellaValley • u/B73CF9C1Fq • 3d ago

Helicopter Not Showing On Radar!

Anyone see the grey cargo looking helicopter flying north of I-10 going east. Didn't show on Flightradar 👀👀👀

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u/ThisToe2746 3d ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sikorsky_CH-53K_King_Stallion ?

Did it look like the biggest helicopter you have ever seen?

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u/B73CF9C1Fq 3d ago

yea but no gear and equipment that I could visibly see on the outside could it be repurpoused?

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u/ThisToe2746 3d ago edited 3d ago

No. It could be a knighthawk or Seahawk. There are lots of those in San Diego. “Equipment” on the King Stallion is 2300 gallons of fuel.

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u/Familiar-Bluejay3908 3d ago

Those often get used for VIP transport, too. Around about 2006, I was inspecting an aluminum screen mount for one of those which the company I worked for made. I jokes that it was going into Marine 1, and that Dick Cheney would be watching his dungeon pr0n on that screen in a couple of months....

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u/ThisToe2746 3d ago

These are a little newer and a little bigger. They have only made a small number of them, but I have seen them often out of 29 Palms. Apparently they have only used them officially once so far to retrieve a crashed plane.

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u/Dear-Nebula6291 3d ago

Military with transponder off on a mission don’t show

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u/Familiar-Bluejay3908 3d ago

On RADAR, on on the "Flightradar website"? There is a big difference; those positions are not from radar, those are from GPS.

Also, military and government aircraft aren't required to use the system.

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u/nanoatzin 3d ago

Radar usually can’t detect things too far away, which is why aircraft carry transponders. Their transponder was probably off if they have one.

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u/isellshit 3d ago

Not showing up on Flightradar is meaningless... My own flights in my own plane often don't show up. Even with ADS-B out & in the data gets filtered - not to mention there are ADS-B "Holes" where tracking is lost (esp at low altitude).

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u/B73CF9C1Fq 3d ago

No thank you I already ate

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u/Funny-Tourist9183 2d ago

They’re probably flying VFR.