Business jet at night

A business jet parked on a dark apron in the Extended Look, cabin lit orange from inside, airstair down, and a man in a hat walking away from it.

At 19:37.29 the aircraft stands on an apron at night, filmed from the side and close in. The cabin is lit from within and a row of nine or ten oval windows glows warm orange down the flank. The airstair door is folded down on the left with its steps out, and a figure in a pale top and cap is leaning out of the doorway handling something in the entry.

The fuselage is dark against a dark sky, so the shape has to be read off its lit edges. An engine nacelle is mounted at the rear on the right of the crop, with the wing running under it. A blade antenna stands on the spine. At the far left, the cockpit windows are lit and a figure is sitting in them. A man in a brimmed hat and sunglasses walks out of frame in the foreground, and beyond the aircraft the apron lights and a lit building mark out the airfield.

This is the frame that taught us not to guess. An earlier pass at this database looked at a business jet, reasoned from the shape to a real-world donor, and gave it a name. The name was wrong. This record stays unnamed until the aircraft is identified by something other than inference.

How to recognise it

• Nine or ten oval cabin windows lit from inside
• Airstair door folded down with steps out, a figure in the doorway
• Rear-mounted engine nacelle on the right of the crop
• Blade antenna on the fuselage spine
• Cockpit lit with a figure in the seat; apron and taxiway lights beyond

The frame it comes from

The frame is Extended Look at 19:37.29. It is 1920 by 1080, and the vehicle occupies 1804 by 411 of it.

What we still do not know

• The name, and the manufacturer
• Whether this is the same aircraft as the jet on approach in the press pack. Both are rear-engined business jets; that is not enough to merge two records.
• The livery. At night the fuselage reads as a silhouette.
• Everything measured: top speed, ceiling, price, where it spawns

A note on this record

One of the two records in this database where an earlier guess at a GTA name turned out to be wrong. Both were caught by frame identity rather than by reasoning, which is why we no longer reason our way to names.