N808LP Registration: HADES Prototype
What This Image Shows
A mobile aircraft-registration page for tail number N808LP, watermarked repeatedly with @tjphager.
The summary block reads: 2023 BD-700-1A10, Fixed wing multi engine, 23 seats, 2 engines, owner listed as a Foreign Corporation, Airworthiness Class Experimental/Normal, Serial Number 60116, engines Rolls-Royce BR700-710D5-21. A small thumbnail caption reads: "A group shot in front of the first HADES prototype aircraft at the Bombardier Defense facility in Wichita, Kansas, today. Bombardier."
This is the comparison aircraft. If you want to know what an actual HADES prototype looks like on paper, this is it -- and the fields that matter are the Experimental/Normal airworthiness class and serial 60116. A mission-modified prototype carries an experimental certificate; N1098L, serial 60098, does not, which is the technical core of the argument that N1098L was not the configured HADES aircraft.
That is the counter-case, and it is a serious one. It does not explain the low, slow passes over the Utah Valley, but it does undercut the claim that the aircraft was purpose-built to launch drones.
See the cluster overview and N1098L Spy Plane.
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