CIA-linked aircraft leaves Bar River

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Here in SooToday.com's psychotronically shielded newsroom, we want you to know that N6161Q, the CIA-linked mystery plane that made national headlines last year when it flew to Bar River and never left, finally flew the coop over the weekend.

FlightAware.com, the plane-tracking website that initially tipped us off that N6161Q was in our neck of the woods, is now reporting that the 22-seater DeHavilland DHC-6-300 is at Johnson County Airport in Smithfield, North Carolina.

The tracking service indicates that the aircraft with the mysterious blade-like antennae on the upper fuselage arrived there just before midnight on Friday after a two-hour, 25-minute flight from Akron Canton Regional Airport.

To read what former Sault Star sleuth Joe Warmington found out about N6161Q during a visit to Bar River Airport last December, please click here.

Indy media reports (whose authenticity have not been investigated by SooToday.com) identify Johnson County Airport in North Carolina as a hub for flights allegedly used to shuttle prisoners to torture and nonjudicial confinement sites.

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