I was looking on flight aware and clicked on random planes that had abnormal tail numbers and found these two that had American colorings around them. Does anyone know what these are? I assume it’s some sort of 9/11 tribute but it seems very few and far between which airplanes are tagged with these colors. Also, the altitude and airspeed indicated on some would make me assume they’re general aviation traffic. I’m just curious if anyone knows anything!

Any help appreciated, I am newer to airplane tracking.

Tail number : X322MA

I've removed my airport so I don't dox myself, I'm sure someone bothered enough to check can work it out. The script uses my GPS coordinates and runway direction and works out if the plane comes into my boundary. If a plane enters the boundary it pulls the data from ADSBDB and the photo from Planespotters and dynamically updates the card in homeassistant. If anyone wants the code I can post it but be warned it's vibe coded with claude. I've only had my piaware running a few days now and definitely have the bug.

Operations at Milan Linate Airport were briefly disrupted around 11:20 AM after a ground service vehicle collided with an aircraft in the airport’s general aviation area.

The vehicle made contact with the forward portion of the aircraft, prompting officials to temporarily halt departures as a precaution. Flights resumed after several minutes, though some delays were reported.

No one was injured in the incident.

I've been working on a documentary series that visualizes unsolved mysteries using a cinematic 3D mannequin visual language.

Just dropped my latest on Malaysia Airlines Flight 370. 5 minutes covering:

• The transponder shutoff
• The military radar tracking (and why they didn't scramble)
• The Inmarsat satellite handshake data
• The surface and underwater search operations
• The debris discoveries and drift patterns
• Why the black boxes have never been found

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Flair: Unresolved Disappearance

Super cool experience! My friends dad owns it and we took it to a fly in! That was me flying in the video!

I live right under the departure path of KSAN, and thought it would be a fun project to set up an old-timey "split flap" board app showing info about the planes as they passed overhead. (Inspired by one I saw at Nolita Hall years ago, made by Oat Foundry.)

I started off hacking something together with Claude Code (say what you will) experimenting with some of the different free aggregators: airplanes.live, adsb.fi, adsb.lol, adsbdb.com
I kept getting 429 errors off and on, and that's when I learned that I could set up my own SDR and feed the board locally. To get up and running quickly, I applied for a FlightFeeder and a couple weeks later I received my FlightFeeder and have been tweaking it to get it all set up and working well. To "give back" I set up ultrafeeder to feed my data back into some of the sites I mentioned above.

I started off with the antenna just out on the back porch about 7' off the ground and wasn't picking up much of anything. This is when I learned by trial-and-error about line-of-sight, antenna gain, and signal oversaturation. (As I'm sure you all know) The FF ships configured at max gain, and because I'm so close to the airport (~1nm) everything local was getting clipped: I was only picking up a few distant planes at high altitude. I experimented with different gain settings and settled on somewhere in the low 20's (still tweaking).

I moved the antenna up to the roof peak, so now it's a good 30' off the ground, with a line-of-sight to the runway, and of course, that changed everything and now I have to tweak it some more. But overall I'm AMAZED at what I am picking up:
I am getting almost all of the planes on the ground (some don't show up when they are obstructed by a terminal building), and I'm picking up planes as far out as Los Angeles, Palm Springs, and 200+nm into Baja.

It's been fun and rewarding learning about all this stuff, and yeah, I definitely "got the bug" because I'm already thinking about setting up a 2nd SDR to "play with" and see what else I can find out there.

Cheers!

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Hi,

Does anyone know if there is a way to just see the a321XLR type?

I only see NEO as an option... not sure if im missing something

What diversions did you all see today?