A civilian V22?

[Variant_S]

I'm spending a few weeks in a home that is along one of the flight paths for the Santa Barbara Airport (SBA). This came overhead yesterday. Sorry for the grainy pictures:

There are occasional visits to SBA from bases along the coast, but this is the first time that I've seen this livery. I didn't have the time to check FlightAware when it showed up, but I'm curious to know what or whose it is.

 

[Pew]

US Navy VRM-30 Titans

 

[97prizm]

Apparently you can own a V-22 but from reading it would have to be registered as an experimental aircraft.

 

[Jimmy_Russells]

https://www.seaforces.org/usnair/VRC/Fleet-Logistics-Support-Squadron-40.htm

Edit - Not quite right

 

[Jimmy_Russells]

US Navy VRM-30 Titans

Nice

 

[thastinger]

I'm spending a few weeks in a home that is along one of the flight paths for the Santa Barbara Airport (SBA). This came overhead yesterday. Sorry for the grainy pictures:

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There are occasional visits to SBA from bases along the coast, but this is the first time that I've seen this livery. I didn't have the time to check FlightAware when it showed up, but I'm curious to know what or whose it is.

Probably declared an emergency and needed to land at the nearest acceptable airport...those things are death traps.

 

[Variant_S]

Nice

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Wow! That was sure fast!

What threw me off was that there were no other discernible markings or insignia visible, hence my thought that it was not military.

Thanks!

 

[bdcardinal]

You are near me. My mom was trying to take pictures of that one yesterday. My family moved here in 1968 because my grandparents were hired by Aero Spacelines to work on the Guppy. We love living under the flight plan, seriously we do.