This just landed in Oklahoma City.

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BakerHasHisKitchen@reddit

Yeah they fly with the callsign justice. The Federal Transfer Center is on the southwest corner of the airport south of the FAA ramp.

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hapybratt@reddit

Is there a list somewhere or all the cool call signs in the US? Everyone knows of air-force one, but I had never heard of justice. Pretty neat.

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hungy54@reddit

https://henney.com/chm/callsign.htm

This doesn’t cover everything but it does cover the vast majority of cool military call signs

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Kepler1609a@reddit

Is this the one where Harrison ford throws dudes out the door while shouting “GET OFF MY PLANE”

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TheCuriousCrocc@reddit

That’s Air Force One, Con Air is Nic Cage movie

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Kepler1609a@reddit

Ahh, that’s right. Which one do they kill off Steven segal in the first 5 minutes?

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TheCuriousCrocc@reddit

Might be thinking of ‘Executive Decision’ with Kurt Russell, that’s what google told me at least

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captainklaus@reddit

All three movies are a ton of fun, I’d rate them in the following order:

Con Air (unhinged Cage southern accent/mullet, cusack, malcovich, ving Rhames, Danny Trejo)

Air Force One (Harrison ford as the president, Gary Goldman as a Russian terrorist)

Executive Decision (Seagal gets ejected 5 min in, Kurt Russel/jon leguzamo, the black dude from terminator 2, Oliver platt)

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GenitalPatton@reddit

…the black dude from terminator 2…

What a weird way to describe him when you named everyone else. He is Joe Morton.

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captainklaus@reddit

I just couldn’t remember his name off the top of my head dude, no need to read into it

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GenitalPatton@reddit

If only there was a device at your fingertips to look up information like that in less than 2 seconds

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captainklaus@reddit

Yeah you got me I was secretly being racist against Joe Morton (but not ving rhames) instead of just being lazy

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CounterSimple3771@reddit

Ain't no one throwing Segal anywhere.stevo

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Kepler1609a@reddit

😂 I’m afraid this cargo would exceed the aircraft’s max TOW

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Live-Juggernaut-221@reddit

No it's the one where he yells "GET OFF MY RUNWAY" as he lands on taxiway Charlie.

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Harrison Ford was on one of these, but not Air Force One (also the title of the Movie). This was used in the movie “US Marshalls” where it crashed in Kentucky, and Wesley Snipes, escaped. “US Marshalls” was the sequel to “The Fugitive”, which stared Harrison Ford as the fugitive, who escaped from a corrections bus. Both are good movies, but Ford has two degrees of separation in this case.

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Kepler1609a@reddit

Yes! That’s the one. Actually a great movie.

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meesersloth@reddit

I saw a video on this. Its so weird seeing a prison structure with a jet way attached to it lol.

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speculator100k@reddit

Worst lounge ever.

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thethirdllama@reddit

The frequent flyer program is nothing to write home about either.

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JustARandomGuyReally@reddit

But very exclusive.

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warm-saucepan@reddit

I flew on one of these in '89 or '90. Up and down the east coast. I wondered why the landings were so hard. I was told the pilots were practicing short runway, or emergency landings. Passengers couldn't really complain.

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warm-saucepan@reddit

Oh, now that I think about it, that journey ended for me at El Reno FCI, OK.

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HuskerDave@reddit

Gotta get indicted, to be invited.

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antariusz@reddit

They were using a military callsign actually.

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BakerHasHisKitchen@reddit

They are not military, they are DOJ.

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antariusz@reddit

And yet, what I said is true.

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BakerHasHisKitchen@reddit

What was the callsign?

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Boring_Industry_693@reddit

Their actual hangar is on the north east side of the airport

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BakerHasHisKitchen@reddit

That’s true, next to CBPs

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Ready-Philosophy7516@reddit

Any chance this was the plane? My antenna caught it!

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Maximus13@reddit

Category, Dogs With Jobs

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Ready-Philosophy7516@reddit

I don’t make the category names lol

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Stishovite@reddit

OK but who does? it's fantastic.

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Ready-Philosophy7516@reddit

Look up plane fence it’s a self hosted app, it’s very cool! When my antenna catches a plane in a certain category it have it setup to send me a discord message

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turpentinedreamer@reddit

Is dogs with jobs on that list?

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Ready-Philosophy7516@reddit

Yes

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wstsidhome@reddit

Cameron Poe, lol. Nice 👌

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MyNameis_Not_Sure@reddit

Tagged with Cameron Poe lol (Nick Cage character in Con Air)

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g3nerallycurious@reddit

Yep! OKC resident here. Every single federal prison transfer gets flown through OKC, every single air traffic controller gets trained in OKC, and the USAF’s largest maintenance depot is the USAF base in OKC.

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HuskerDave@reddit

And the airport is named after someone that died in a plane crash!

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Semper454@reddit

Both primary OKC airports, for that matter

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roy-dam-mercer@reddit

Story time.

So I worked at a small airport in NE OKC in the late 80s. The husband of a popular TV anchor owned a plane and based it there. I always got the impression from my brief encounters with him that he was a compulsive liar.

Not too long after DOJ started flying out of Will Rogers, he gets a job with them as a pilot. Pretty sure they were flying 727s at the time, but I don’t know if he was hired right seat or sitting sideways. Anycrap, he seemed quite proud of his U.S. Marshall badge. Unfortunately, he didn’t last long. Story I heard was he embellished his experience level to get the job and they figured him out pretty quick like.

Sorry, I know it’s not as good as the 80s Mathis Brother rumor.

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g3nerallycurious@reddit

Remind me of the 80s rumor? My favorite OKC story is Operation Bongo.

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roy-dam-mercer@reddit

I don’t think I’ve heard of Operation Bongo.

911: “911, what is your emergency?”

Mathis Brother: “I’ve got a gerbil stuck up my @$$.”

911: “Sir, please try to stay calm and don’t agitate it. What’s the address?”

Mathis Brother: “3434 W. Reno”

Probably not a real event, but it spread like wildfire. There was a similar story about Richard Gere.

I asked a Mathis Brothers employee about the story once and they told me it’s an immediate termination if they discuss it.

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cnollz@reddit

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oklahoma_City_sonic_boom_tests

That gerbil story is wild…

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roy-dam-mercer@reddit

Oh, the sonic boom tests! I probably just forgot it was called Operation Bongo. Grandpa installed wood paneling throughout the house after sonic booms caused their drywall to crack.

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turpentinedreamer@reddit

I hate this new phone ai sharpening shit. Zoom in and all the details are just garbage.

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B_O_A_H@reddit

What’s the purpose?

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Subject9800@reddit

Transferring prisoners in federal custody.

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B_O_A_H@reddit

That’s pretty cool, I think a 737 is too fancy a plane for them, how about an old DC-3?

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747ER@reddit

And being a taxpayer, you’re willing to pay for them to use an aircraft that’s a quarter of the size with much less efficient engines, comparatively terrible performance, an almost non-existent spare parts supply chain, and a fraction of the range and speed?

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devoduder@reddit

I’d see that plane quite often when I had an office next to the flight line at Vandenberg AFB. There’s a large fed prison complex next to the base and we’d see a big convoy of cops and busses for the transfers. Very interesting to watch.

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FlightFramed@reddit

We asked them if they’d be a static display at the base air show and they declined.

Damn, that'd have been one unique static too

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