2021年6月8日 · The images show RAT 55, its nickname and callsign likely a play on its supposed name—Radar Airborne Testbed—and its tail number, in stunning details. The modifications to this aircraft are quite incredible, with its massive forward and aft radomes, along with the outsized structures to accommodate them, turning what was basically a 737-200 ...

2025年1月1日 · The Boeing T-43 is a retired modified Boeing 737-200 that was used by the United States Air Force for training navigators, known as USAF combat systems officers, from 1973 to 2010. A third aircraft 73-1115, was also transferred to Air Force Materiel Command (AFMC) for use as the "Rat 55" radar test bed aircraft and

A third aircraft was also transferred to Air Force Materiel Command (AFMC) for use as the "Rat 55" radar test bed aircraft and was redesignated as an NT-43A. The T-43A was retired by the Air Education and Training Command (AETC) in 2010 after 37 years of service. [3]

2021年3月30日 · When it comes to shy aircraft that we know exist, the Air Force’s wildly modified NT-43A flying signature measurement aircraft, known by its callsign “RAT 55,” really takes the cake. The nearly 50-year-old aircraft has no definitive home.

2015年2月19日 · Rat 55 seen taxing at Ton0pah Test Range Airport recently. The NT-43A has been spotted at Tonopah regularly and it is very possible that there or Area 51 is the jet's secretive home base.

The nearly 50-year-old aircraft has no definitive home. It lives at either Area 51 or the Tonopah Test Range Airport and spends its very limited time in the ...

2021年4月1日 · The secret RAT 55 aircraft provides the US Air Force with the ability to test whole new aircraft or just a new radar absorbing material that has been applied to an existing stealthy aircraft. The aircraft uses its powerful radars and infrared energy detecting devices to evaluate other aircraft under realistic flight conditions and even helps ...

2022年6月3日 · You see, RAT55 isn’t just the strangest 737 flying, it’s also the shyest. It lives and works almost exclusively within the desolate air training ranges that take up large swathes of airspace over south-central California and southern Nevada, often disappearing into Area 51 or the Tonopah Test Range Airport.

2022年6月15日 · Contact photographer for terms of use. The elusive RAT55 seen for the first time at a civilian airport.. 73-1155. Boeing NT-43A. JetPhotos.com is the biggest database of aviation photographs with over 6 million screened photos online!

2021年6月7日 · The images show RAT 55, its nickname and callsign likely a play on its supposed name—Radar Airborne Testbed—and its tail number, in stunning details. The modifications to this aircraft are quite incredible, with its massive forward and aft radomes, along with the outsized structures to accommodate them, turning what was basically a 737-200 ...