The aircraft, reported by online flight tracking service ADS-B Exchange to be a GA6c Gulfstream G600 Bahrain Royal Flight, was over the county between 4 and 4.30pm on Wednesday, June 10.
The tracking service indicates that the flight took off from Oxfordshire airbase RAF Brize Norton, before turning round and heading south. At the time of writing, the plane was flying south over mainland France.
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The airspace above Wiltshire and its surrounding counties has seen a busy 2026 so far, with increased activity at military bases in the area.
Earlier this year, activity at RAF Fairford, just a few miles from RAF Brize Norton, saw a huge spike in activity after the Prime Minister permitted US planes to us the south Gloucestershire site for “defensive operations.”
On the morning of Wednesday, March 26, a Rockwell B-1 Lancer bomber was seen flying over Longworth, on its return to the airbase from Iran.
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