California City Approves Spy Plane to Fly Overhead

Update:

This aircraft matches the photo in the wired story from last year.

Redlands Police Department
Radio Callsign: Air 10
N3280L - 1967 Cessna 172H Skyhawk C/N 17256180
http://www.airport-data.com/aircraft/N3280L.html
http://registry.faa.gov/aircraftinquiry/NNum_Results.aspx?NNumbertxt=N3280L

Welcome to the People's Republic of Kalifornia.

Other planes in the area doing the same thing :)
tracking Drug dealers, etc...

N6045C
http://www.airport-data.com/aircraft/N6045C.html

N207TF
http://www.airport-data.com/aircraft/N207TF.html

It's cheaper to fuel a plane instead of a patrol car?

Wonder why the tree huggers haven't filed an injunction to stop this due to all of the polution (especially the lead in the fuel) that the plane will be adding to the already polited SoCal air every day? This is deffinately not going to help their carbon footprint.

Seems to me if they really want to do this that a UAV would be more cost efective in the long run.

This is a waste of tax dollars, a source of pollution, and an invasion of privacy. With boondoggles like this, it's no wonder that California is going down the tubes.

Hopefully they will carry some form of armament to allow them to target ACLU lawyers when they are observed attacking American values.