Canadian Spy Plane or Redneck P-3?

[JimNtexas]

I encountered this strange bird on the ramp at Rockport, Texas (KRKP) yesterday.

Is Canada conducting some kind of spy mission on the U.S., or has some group of rednecks decided to start hunting submarines?

What's a twin Cessna doing with a MAD boom?

 

[mzaharis]

Fugro (name on the tail) is a company that provides geological information for the oil, gas, mining, and construction industry. This includes geomagnetic information, so it is, as you suspect, probably a MAD of some sort.

http://www.fugro.com/geoscience/airborne/aircraftoper.asp
http://www.fugro.com/geoscience/airborne/gravmagn.asp

 

[joepilot111]

My guess would be a Canadian company working an aeriel survey/geological, contract, probably related to mining. I think this same company has a Dash 7 that does the same thing. I saw it in ELP not too long ago.