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Key Takeaways:

  • An air traffic controller recognized a specific aircraft (a green Cessna 210) and its pilot from his local airport.
  • The controller made a humorous comment about "checking our new color radar" after asking the pilot to confirm the aircraft's green paint color.
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A controller I know has his personal aircraft hangered at the local Muni airport. Facing his hangar is another that houses a Green Cessna 210. One day that Cessna came into his sector. My controller friend recognized the N number and the exchange follows…

Controller: N123, is that airplane painted green?

Pilot: Uh, yes. …Why?

Controller: Just checking our new color radar.

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