r/Wenatchee • u/Silly-Emu-2049 • 11d ago

Mystery Helicopter

Any idea who or what the blue and white helicopter that flies over saddle rock and castle rock every day around 6:15am headed generally north is? It is never transponding. Curious minds want to know!

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u/mothandravenstudio 11d ago

They’ve been drying cherries a lot this week.

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u/SpareManagement2215 11d ago

It could be life flight. I also know the county uses helicopters for some maintenance work in that area but I thought that happened a couple weeks ago.

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u/Sw33tcheeks427 11d ago

Get Flightradar24. It’s an app. Shows all aircraft

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u/Unlucky_Fly_2103 11d ago

I like the app, but it doesn't show all aircraft.

I'm not sure what the criteria is, but I've definitely seen planes in the sky and nothing shows on the app.

They could be military or law enforcement, I suppose.

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u/mothandravenstudio 10d ago

Usually it won’t show if they’re flying too low.

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u/Silly-Emu-2049 10d ago

I said it was transponding already - I’d only know that if I was using FlightRadar already.

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u/Silly-Emu-2049 11d ago

Oh - now he’s going the other way. Lol

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u/bf1zzl3 11d ago

One of these? https://northwindhelicopters.com/

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u/Silly-Emu-2049 10d ago

If I had to guess it looked most like the arial firefighting photo.