The flight monitoring service Flightradar24 recorded an unusual situation: a Boeing 787 (model 787-8 Dreamliner), which took off from the American Andrews Air Force Base in the suburbs of Washington, entered the airspace of Russia over the Murmansk region. The platform does not display the tail number and ownership of the aircraft - it is designated as "unknown" or belongs to the category "military/government".
According to the trajectory, the aircraft successively crossed the airspace of Greenland, Norway and Finland, after which, in the morning of February 20, 2026, it crossed the Russian border in the Murmansk region. Then the Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner headed south towards the Russian-Kazakh border.
Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner is a long-range wide-body aircraft with a composite fuselage, two engines (GEnx or Trent 1000) and a maximum flight range of over 14,000 km at a cruising speed of about 900 km/h. Andrews Air Force Base (Joint Base Andrews) is traditionally used for special government or military flights of the United States, including the transportation of VIPs and special missions.
The lack of identifiers on Flightradar24 is explained by the standard practice for certain flights: disabling or blocking the transmission of ADS-B data for security reasons. Such "dark" flights are tracked only partially - through secondary radars, MLAT or satellite systems, but public services do not show them completely.
