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Flying High

January 15, 2024
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I’m trying to find a flight I took back in 2012. I forgot the airport and the plane, but I know it is the one with an orange/red logo on the right side of this photo I took. Can you help me identify it?

The flag format is UofTCTF{AIRPORT_AIRLINE_AIRCRAFT}. AIRPORT is the 3 letter IATA code, AIRLINE is the name of the airline (dash-separated if required), and AIRCRAFT is the aircraft model and variant (omit manufacturer name). For example, UofTCTF{YYZ_Air-Canada_A320-200} or UofTCTF{YYZ_Delta_767-300}.

Note: The aircraft variant should be of X00 format; ie. there may be models with XYZ-432, but the accepted variant will be XYZ-400.

Author: windex
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Airport:

  • Logo of nearby hangar reads “novespace”, which is an airline
  • Searching up “novespace airport” returns a location. Google Street View near the Novespace hangar shows the image!
  • The nearby airport is the Bordeaux-Mérignac Airport, with code BOD

Airline:

Airplane:

  • Searching up “Iberia aircraft”, we can find this site.
  • Once I reached this point, I decided to just brute force all possibilities, as I wasn’t sure how to proceed otherwise.

I eventually ended up with the flag:

UofTCTF{BOD_Iberia_A340-300}
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