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Key Takeaways:

  • An Air Traffic Controller recognized a pilot's green Cessna 210, which was hangared near his own aircraft at a local airport.
  • The controller made a humorous remark to the pilot, asking if the plane was green, and then jokingly attributed it to "checking our new color radar."
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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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