Can anyone identify the aircraft seen almost every day making for Farnborough airfield based on this description?
- medium sized aircraft
- single front engine with a weird engine sound
- front fins, could be stablisiers
- high rear tailplane
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Sign up to join this communityCan anyone identify the aircraft seen almost every day making for Farnborough airfield based on this description?
From the description you give, and a little local knowledge, I'm going to hedge a bet that it is a Pilatus PC12
This might be the view you are familiar with if you're on the ground (c/w wikimedia commoons)
Or this one if you see it side on
The only thing which doesnt really add up is your guess that they are "Heading for Farnborough". Most of the traffic in and out of there are business jets, but Farnborough provide the lower airspace radar service for much of SE England, so it's not unual for flights to transit their airspace. Blackbushe airport is nearby, it could perhaps be heading for there, or one of the other smaller airfields surrounding London or elsewhere. Where I fly from (Elstree, about 25 miles NE of Farnborough) has 2 based there, and about another half dozen are based at Denham about 10 miles east of Elstree.