Wings Over Camarillo 2015 - Grumman HU-16B Albatross; c/n G-99, N44HQ
Global Eagle Entertainment's Grumman HU-16B Albatross; c/n G-99, N44HQ.
Satellite technology company Global Eagle Entertainment, a Westlake Village, California-based company providing in-flight broadband connectivity and wireless inflight entertainment for commercial aircraft around the world, uses this HU-16B Albatross to test their in-flight satellite broadband internet service. Purchased, restored and named Albatross One in 2008, the company selected this aircraft for its operations because it has the same curvature atop its fuselage as the Boeing 737 aircraft which the company manufacturers its equipment for. This plane was used at one time as a training aircraft for space shuttle astronauts by NASA. It features the autographs of the astronauts who trained aboard the plane on one of the cabin walls.
Wings Over Camarillo 2015 - Grumman HU-16B Albatross; c/n G-99, N44HQ
Global Eagle Entertainment's Grumman HU-16B Albatross; c/n G-99, N44HQ.
Satellite technology company Global Eagle Entertainment, a Westlake Village, California-based company providing in-flight broadband connectivity and wireless inflight entertainment for commercial aircraft around the world, uses this HU-16B Albatross to test their in-flight satellite broadband internet service. Purchased, restored and named Albatross One in 2008, the company selected this aircraft for its operations because it has the same curvature atop its fuselage as the Boeing 737 aircraft which the company manufacturers its equipment for. This plane was used at one time as a training aircraft for space shuttle astronauts by NASA. It features the autographs of the astronauts who trained aboard the plane on one of the cabin walls.