A jet that looked like a Chinese stealth fighter and was spotted inside a military facility at a US airport has been confirmed to be a replica used for training.
The Chinese Chengdu J-20 Mighty Dragon look-alike was pictured at Savannah-Hilton Head Airport, Georgia, last Wednesday by an eagle-eyed plane spotter and shared online.
Speculation over what the plane could be ranged from it being a movie prop to some suggesting if it could have been used by a pilot defecting to the US.
However it has now been confirmed that the full scale mock up is used for training by the United States Marine Corps, reports the Aviationist.
The full scale replica jet (pictured) was spotted at Savannah-Hilton Head Airport last week
Col. Emmanuel Haldopoulos, Commander of the Savannah Air Dominance Center, told the website: 'It is a full scale replica and remained at the Air Dominance Center for a short period during the week of 4-6 Dec.
'The USMC is funding and directing the training objectives of this device.'
Dozens of people on Twitter replied to the Aviationist's tweet of the plane and suggested reasons for it being at the airport.
Some suggested it could be linked to a Viktor Belenko or Kenneth Rowe style defection.
Viktor Belenko, a former Soviet pilot, defected in 1976 while flying his MiG-25 'Foxbat' jet fighter and landed in Hakodate, Japan.
Kenneth H. Rowe, a Korean American engineer and aviator, defected to south Korea in 1953 in a MiG aircraft and was given political asylum by the US.
One person asked if the jet spotted in Georgia could be 'another adversary for Top Gun 2?' and another agreed suggesting it could be 'Maverick's new ride.'
Others questioned whether it was a fake from the beginning and tweeted 'looks like a mock up, not the real thing.'
The Aviationist said they were sent the photograph on Wednesday December 5 and were told it was taken from a public parking area.
They checked satellite images and matched the design of the airport to the colour of the roof shown in the background of the picture.
Training facility The Air Dominance Center is based at the Georgia Airport (pictured) where the jet was spotted
However while trying to get to the bottom of the unusual spot, Chinese Defense expert Andreas Rupprecht, noticed 'that the exhaust nozzles looked inaccurate and the landing gear was different from a real Chengdu J-20 Mighty Dragon.'
The J-20, which is also called the Mighty Dragon, was first shown to the public in 2016 at the Zhuhai Air Show.
At the time there were claims that it had been built in part from plans of U.S. warplanes, particularly the F-22 Raptor, obtained by Chinese hackers jailed in the same year.
Beijing firmly denied the theory as it insists that J-20 had been developed and built solely with the Chinese technology.
In November two J-20 fighter jets opened their cargo bay doors and revealed four missiles in its fuselage and one on either side of the aircraft during the grand finale of the Zhuhai Air Show.
Top Chinese officials, according to the Global Times, said the demonstration displayed the J-20's superiority to the top US fighter jets, the F-22 and F-35
According to footage released by China Central Television Station, the J-20 is equipped with four PL-15 mid-range air-to-air missiles and one PL-10 short-range 'combat' missile on either side.
Chinese news site Sohu previously claimed PL-15 was a wing-less missile and 5.7 metres (18.7 feet) long. It was said to boast an impressive range of 400 kilometres (249 miles) and could help PL-15 out-perform F-22.
When the aircraft was shown to the public at an air show in China, there were claims to suggest that it had been built in part from plans of US war planes (file photo)
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