Last year, Elon Musk stopped using an FAA program allowing jet owners to fly incognito, JetSpy said.
REUTERS/Aly SongThe FAA launched the PIA program in 2019 and has issued 390 alternate ID codes since the program began, an FAA spokesperson told Insider.
Musk used his first alternate ID through the PIA program about a month later.
The incognito registration number also doesn't prevent Sweeney from tracking the private jet via ADS-B Exchange, a public flight-tracking database.
AdvertisementAdvertisement"The PIA program limits the ability to identify an aircraft in real-time using inexpensive, commercially available receivers," an FAA spokesperson told Insider.
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