r/flightradar24 • u/Purple-Direction7775 • 1d ago

Wtf?

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u/Regular-Cricket-4613 1d ago edited 8h ago

Probably a newer jet which got a registration that used to belong to a Cessna 172, and FlightRadar24's tail number source still had the old data and hasn't displayed an update yet for the new registration of that tail number.

I've seen this happen on FR24 a few times before. Not too uncommon actually.

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u/opteryx5 1d ago

Thanks, was curious about the actual explanation.

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u/dellenwood 1d ago

Same, had to scroll a bit to get to this, thank you!

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u/Limp_Mobile3105 20h ago

I muttered “someone must actually have a clue…” as I was scrolling 🤣😂

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u/xdubyagx 8h ago

I was singing cake, thinking that and scrolling.

Good times