N59906 Playback: Looping Track Over Utah Valley
What This Image Shows
A Flightradar24 playback for N59906. The map shows a complex looping track over Utah Lake and the surrounding valley, with Lehi, American Fork, Lindon, Orem, Provo, Springville, Mapleton, Spanish Fork, Salem, Payson and Santaquin all labelled and a clock reading 19:59 UTC.
The panel below reads: "Playback of flight N59906," FROM Provo (PVU), TO Provo (PVU), ACTUAL FLIGHT TIME 2:39, TIME 5:35 PM UTC, BAROMETRIC ALTITUDE 19,000 FT, GROUND SPEED 212 KTS, VERTICAL SPEED 0 FPM.
This is the second aircraft over the Utah Valley on September 10, 2025, and its profile is quite different from the Global 6500's. A two-hour-thirty-nine-minute flight departing and returning to the same field, holding a steady 19,000 feet at 212 knots, flying a repeating loop -- that is a textbook aerial survey pattern, and it is exactly what a Piper PA-31 equipped for mapping and imaging would fly.
The unresolved questions are not about the profile but about the tasking: who commissioned it, and whether imagery from the four passes over campus exists. Neither MARC Inc. nor any agency has answered publicly.
See N59906, the registration record on Photo 1, and Sept 10 Flight Timeline.
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