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I've been getting increasingly annoyed over the last few months by a twin-engine light aircraft that spends hours on end circling over south London. Normally there might be quite a bit of time each day when our garden isn't affected by aircraft noise, despite being under regular approaches to Heathrow and from City. But now, on sunny spring afternoons, this plane is buzzing overhead incessantly (I tried to type that in-cessna-tly but it autocorrected) and it really winds me up.
I spent a while watching it this weekend, and also did some googling which indicates it's a Cessna F406 that attracted some media attention last year when it appeared on some plane-tracking app circling over south London. At the time, the Met declined to say whether it was anything to do with them. But nobody seems to be discussing it this year.
I took a couple of nice photos of it appearing to have a near-miss with a Kuwait Airways jet. If the security services don't get to me this afternoon, I'll post them here tonight.
Edit: I think it might be a Britten-Norman Islander rather than a Cessna - when my son showed me a picture of a Cessna on his phone, I did think it wasn't quite like the dull grey thing I'd been watching.