SpaceX has a New Airplane

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It's a grey and black Boeing 737-800 without any markings except an FAA civilian aircraft registration number (N154TS).

The FAA registration lookup reveals its owner to be

FALCON AVIATION HOLDINGS LLC
1 ROCKET RD, HAWTHORNE CALIFORNIA

And 1 Rocket Road is SpaceX's official company address in Hawthorne.

Video of it landing at LAX

https://twitter.com/SpaceNosey/status/17...2598191502

I expect that this plane will be a frequent visitor at Brownsville/South Padre Island International Airport, Waco (for McGregor), the airports around Cape Canaveral and the Starlink factories outside Seattle and Austin. Its primary task will likely be ferrying engineers around from site to site.

[Yazata]

I expect that this plane will be a frequent visitor at Brownsville/South Padre Island International Airport, Waco (for McGregor), the airports around Cape Canaveral and the Starlink factories outside Seattle and Austin. Its primary task will likely be ferrying engineers around from site to site.

And Jessica Tetreau has indeed photographed it at BRO (the Brownsville/South Padre Island airport).

A notable new feature is the heatshield-tile and stylized SpaceX 'X' on the plane's tail.

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[Yazata]

The SpaceX plane is back at Starbase for Tuesday's Flight 6, where it made a couple of low passes over the rocket today, Sunday Nov 17.

(Photo by Nasaspaceflight.com)

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