Who is Shadow?

[Troy R.]

There is a lot of RAAF activity around the Northwest NSW area tonight.
The callsign Shadow is being used a quite a bit. Anyone know who that belongs too?

[Nigel C]

I googled "RAAF callsign Shadow" and came up with this...

http://www.scanaustralia.bigpondhosting.com/military/RAAF/RAAF1.html
If the Navy still operates them, it could be an HS748, although I thought they've retired these.

Otherwise it's likely to be an RAAF C130.

Cheers

[AdamC]

Troy

Shadow is the callsign of Raytheon's Lear 35 or 25 not to sure, The one in the last issue of Australian Aviation magazine.

Has all the goochy computer stuff in it.

Hope that helps.

Cheers

Adam

[Oliver A]

It is this (http://www.raytheon.com.au/Files/EWTS%20Fact%20Sheet.pdf) aircraft.

[Troy R.]

Thanks heaps guys. I thought it might have been a Herc (as Shadow was an old callsign for them) but from the radio traffic it was the Learjet. They were talking about having "system problems" at a given altitude so they had to go higher.

It was a great listening night!