Last week, the Volkskrant reported (link in Dutch) that an alleged CIA plane had been stationed on Schiphol for two days, on 17 and 18 November, before leaving for Rekjavik. The plane in question is a DHC-8 or “Dash-8” plane, with registration number N505LL and owned by the Path Corporation, allegedly a CIA front.
The airplane in question, photographed in afghanistan in 2002
On the Spyflight website, the same plane that visited Schiphol two weeks ago is identified as having been stationed in Kabul, Afghanistan. According to Spyflight it is “used to transport US SF personnel around the country to various small airstrips”.
So what was it doing at Schiphol? This report says it had arrived from Istanbul and had previously visited Baku, in Azerbaijan, which could point at its origin indeed being Afghanistan. It wasn’t supposed to have any passengers when it landed at Istanbul, but that information could be wrong. All of this might very well be benign, but could also fit the extraction and movement of prisoners from Afghanistan to parts unknown…