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  1. So how do we know the airport code of the _secret_ Air Force base at Groom Lake #Area51 is #KXTA? That was a big #oops on someone's part in 2007. A routine aviation navigation database update was not scrubbed for classified material and... there it was. The story was broken by AOPA when pilots noticed it on #aviation GPS units. USAF response: "We know. It doesn't matter." 😀 Student pilots needed to be taught not to use it as a waypoint. aopa.org/news-and-media/all-ne #military #avgeek #history #WTF

  2. So how do we know the airport code of the _secret_ Air Force base at Groom Lake #Area51 is #KXTA? That was a big #oops on someone's part in 2007. A routine aviation navigation database update was not scrubbed for classified material and... there it was. The story was broken by AOPA when pilots noticed it on #aviation GPS units. USAF response: "We know. It doesn't matter." 😀 Student pilots needed to be taught not to use it as a waypoint. aopa.org/news-and-media/all-ne #military #avgeek #history #WTF

  3. So how do we know the airport code of the _secret_ Air Force base at Groom Lake #Area51 is #KXTA? That was a big #oops on someone's part in 2007. A routine aviation navigation database update was not scrubbed for classified material and... there it was. The story was broken by AOPA when pilots noticed it on #aviation GPS units. USAF response: "We know. It doesn't matter." 😀 Student pilots needed to be taught not to use it as a waypoint. aopa.org/news-and-media/all-ne #military #avgeek #history #WTF

  4. So how do we know the airport code of the _secret_ Air Force base at Groom Lake #Area51 is #KXTA? That was a big #oops on someone's part in 2007. A routine aviation navigation database update was not scrubbed for classified material and... there it was. The story was broken by AOPA when pilots noticed it on #aviation GPS units. USAF response: "We know. It doesn't matter." 😀 Student pilots needed to be taught not to use it as a waypoint. aopa.org/news-and-media/all-ne #military #avgeek #history #WTF

  5. So how do we know the airport code of the _secret_ Air Force base at Groom Lake #Area51 is #KXTA? That was a big #oops on someone's part in 2007. A routine aviation navigation database update was not scrubbed for classified material and... there it was. The story was broken by AOPA when pilots noticed it on #aviation GPS units. USAF response: "We know. It doesn't matter." 😀 Student pilots needed to be taught not to use it as a waypoint. aopa.org/news-and-media/all-ne #military #avgeek #history #WTF

  6. "Janet: The secret US airline that flies to Area 51" by Aerospace Global News - One of the worst-kept secrets: workers at the secret USAF base at Groom Lake, Nevada #KXTA, a.k.a. "Area 51", commute to work from Las Vegas #KLAS on a military contractor airline. All we know for sure about it is they fly 737-600s and use the radio callsign "Janet". aerospaceglobalnews.com/news/j #military #aviation #travel #avgeek

  7. "Janet: The secret US airline that flies to Area 51" by Aerospace Global News - One of the worst-kept secrets: workers at the secret USAF base at Groom Lake, Nevada #KXTA, a.k.a. "Area 51", commute to work from Las Vegas #KLAS on a military contractor airline. All we know for sure about it is they fly 737-600s and use the radio callsign "Janet". aerospaceglobalnews.com/news/j #military #aviation #travel #avgeek

  8. "Janet: The secret US airline that flies to Area 51" by Aerospace Global News - One of the worst-kept secrets: workers at the secret USAF base at Groom Lake, Nevada #KXTA, a.k.a. "Area 51", commute to work from Las Vegas #KLAS on a military contractor airline. All we know for sure about it is they fly 737-600s and use the radio callsign "Janet". aerospaceglobalnews.com/news/j #military #aviation #travel #avgeek

  9. "Janet: The secret US airline that flies to Area 51" by Aerospace Global News - One of the worst-kept secrets: workers at the secret USAF base at Groom Lake, Nevada #KXTA, a.k.a. "Area 51", commute to work from Las Vegas #KLAS on a military contractor airline. All we know for sure about it is they fly 737-600s and use the radio callsign "Janet". aerospaceglobalnews.com/news/j #military #aviation #travel #avgeek

  10. "Janet: The secret US airline that flies to Area 51" by Aerospace Global News - One of the worst-kept secrets: workers at the secret USAF base at Groom Lake, Nevada #KXTA, a.k.a. "Area 51", commute to work from Las Vegas #KLAS on a military contractor airline. All we know for sure about it is they fly 737-600s and use the radio callsign "Janet". aerospaceglobalnews.com/news/j #military #aviation #travel #avgeek

  11. I tired hard, really hard to get the pilot to land at KXTA on the outbound leg of a medical transport to KLAS with no luck #Avgeek #KXTA #Homeyairport #GITMObound

  12. I tired hard, really hard to get the pilot to land at KXTA on the outbound leg of a medical transport to KLAS with no luck #Avgeek #KXTA #Homeyairport #GITMObound

  13. I tired hard, really hard to get the pilot to land at KXTA on the outbound leg of a medical transport to KLAS with no luck #Avgeek #KXTA #Homeyairport #GITMObound

  14. I tired hard, really hard to get the pilot to land at KXTA on the outbound leg of a medical transport to KLAS with no luck #Avgeek #KXTA #Homeyairport #GITMObound

  15. I tired hard, really hard to get the pilot to land at KXTA on the outbound leg of a medical transport to KLAS with no luck #Avgeek #KXTA #Homeyairport #GITMObound

  16. "Su-27 That Mysteriously Vanished After Private Sale Resurfaces" by @TheWarZoneWire / @FranticGoat - USAF🇺🇸 Museum in Dayton acquired Ukrainian Su-27 last seen for sale in 2009. Likely was in aggressor training at Area 51 #KXTA. thedrive.com/the-war-zone/su-2 #military #aviation #avgeek

  17. "Su-27 That Mysteriously Vanished After Private Sale Resurfaces" by @TheWarZoneWire / @FranticGoat - USAF🇺🇸 Museum in Dayton acquired Ukrainian Su-27 last seen for sale in 2009. Likely was in aggressor training at Area 51 #KXTA. thedrive.com/the-war-zone/su-2 #military #aviation #avgeek

  18. "Su-27 That Mysteriously Vanished After Private Sale Resurfaces" by @TheWarZoneWire / @FranticGoat - USAF🇺🇸 Museum in Dayton acquired Ukrainian Su-27 last seen for sale in 2009. Likely was in aggressor training at Area 51 #KXTA. thedrive.com/the-war-zone/su-2 #military #aviation #avgeek

  19. "Su-27 That Mysteriously Vanished After Private Sale Resurfaces" by @TheWarZoneWire / @FranticGoat - USAF🇺🇸 Museum in Dayton acquired Ukrainian Su-27 last seen for sale in 2009. Likely was in aggressor training at Area 51 #KXTA. thedrive.com/the-war-zone/su-2 #military #aviation #avgeek

  20. "Su-27 That Mysteriously Vanished After Private Sale Resurfaces" by @TheWarZoneWire / @FranticGoat - USAF🇺🇸 Museum in Dayton acquired Ukrainian Su-27 last seen for sale in 2009. Likely was in aggressor training at Area 51 #KXTA. thedrive.com/the-war-zone/su-2 #military #aviation #avgeek

  21. @cvvhrn Except with all the other trouble Lazar got in just after that story, it became obvious in hindsight he was desperate to invent a big distraction. But this month marks 15 years since we learned Groom Lake AFB's airport code #KXTA. avgeek.social/@ikluft/10970806

  22. @cvvhrn Except with all the other trouble Lazar got in just after that story, it became obvious in hindsight he was desperate to invent a big distraction. But this month marks 15 years since we learned Groom Lake AFB's airport code #KXTA. avgeek.social/@ikluft/10970806

  23. @cvvhrn Except with all the other trouble Lazar got in just after that story, it became obvious in hindsight he was desperate to invent a big distraction. But this month marks 15 years since we learned Groom Lake AFB's airport code #KXTA. avgeek.social/@ikluft/10970806

  24. @cvvhrn Except with all the other trouble Lazar got in just after that story, it became obvious in hindsight he was desperate to invent a big distraction. But this month marks 15 years since we learned Groom Lake AFB's airport code #KXTA. avgeek.social/@ikluft/10970806

  25. @cvvhrn Except with all the other trouble Lazar got in just after that story, it became obvious in hindsight he was desperate to invent a big distraction. But this month marks 15 years since we learned Groom Lake AFB's airport code #KXTA. avgeek.social/@ikluft/10970806

  26. 15 years ago: US Air Force forgot to clean up airport data before a periodic #aviation database update... Civilians learned airport code for Area 51/Groom Lake Air Force Base is #KXTA. Its existence was no longer secret. Article by AOPA: aopa.org/news-and-media/all-ne #avgeek

  27. 15 years ago: US Air Force forgot to clean up airport data before a periodic #aviation database update... Civilians learned airport code for Area 51/Groom Lake Air Force Base is #KXTA. Its existence was no longer secret. Article by AOPA: aopa.org/news-and-media/all-ne #avgeek

  28. 15 years ago: US Air Force forgot to clean up airport data before a periodic #aviation database update... Civilians learned airport code for Area 51/Groom Lake Air Force Base is #KXTA. Its existence was no longer secret. Article by AOPA: aopa.org/news-and-media/all-ne #avgeek

  29. 15 years ago: US Air Force forgot to clean up airport data before a periodic #aviation database update... Civilians learned airport code for Area 51/Groom Lake Air Force Base is #KXTA. Its existence was no longer secret. Article by AOPA: aopa.org/news-and-media/all-ne #avgeek