Exclusive: U.S Spy Aircraft Violates Uganda and DRC Airspace

On three occasions in the month of November 2024, a United States of America registered aircraft based in Djibouti violated Ugandan and Congolese airspace, this publication has established.

The violations recorded by Ugandan radar stations occurred on the 14th, 15th and 26th of November.

The aircraft, a Bombadier Challenger 604, tail number N9191, did circuits around Kasese and Bundibugyo in Uganda and Beni in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).

The Kampala Post understands that the aircraft is leased by the U.S Defence Department and is used for surveillance activities.

Highly placed military sources told this publication that the U.S Defence Attaché's Office in Kampala had requested overflight permission from the Office of the Chief of Joint Staff of the Uganda Peoples’ Defense Forces, Maj Gen Jack Bakasumba, in October but falsely and fraudulently stated that the purpose of the flights were the transportation of personnel and cargo to DRC.

Subsequently, alert Ugandan Airforce radar operators started investigating the aircraft after it never made a landing in the DRC and executed highly suspicious maneuvers in both Ugandan and DRC airspace.
 

Military sources told this publication that U.S controllers of the spy aircraft did not bother to even ask the DRC for permission to enter their airspace. Instead, it was the Ugandan air traffic controllers who notified the understandably enraged DRC air traffic controllers.

This publication understands that both the Ugandan Chief of Defense Forces, Gen Muhoozi Kainerugaba and the President of the Republic of Uganda H.E Yoweri Museveni have been briefed on this aircraft's violations.
 

A trusted source told this reporter that the office of the UPDF Chief of Joint Staff had as of yesterday revoked the aircraft’s earlier authorization of overflight over Ugandan territory.