Now here's an odd one.
N900SA, as I have undoubtedly mentioned previously, was once owned by a corporation named
Aircraft 45775, Inc.,
and that corporation was a subsidiary of
UniCapital Corporation, which declared bankruptcy some years back. Aircraft 45775, Inc., along with a
large number of other subsidiaries, appears on both their annual report the year of bankruptcy and on actual bankruptcy documents several months
later.
UniCapital Annual Report for 2000, and
UniCapital Bankcruptcy Filing (scroll down to the correct section)
Stepping aside from UniCapital for a moment, a
detailed history of
N120NE, the sister aircraft of N900SA, shows it as having belonged to a
James R. Wikert in the past, as well as his corporation
Express One International. The suffix
0NE on the aircraft registration number was standard for all Express One aircraft.
James R. Wikert, aside from being on the board of the
Alliance for Responsible Cuba Policy Foundation, owns a number of corporations, including
The Wikert Group, JRW Aviation, Alaska Flight Services, and
AirCorp. Returning to the UniCapital documents, you may notice the mention of
AirCorp II as a listed subsidiary. In addition, two of the
serial number corporations, in particular,
Aircraft 48008, Inc. and
Aircraft 48009, Inc. are DC-9 aircraft last owned by a single company before being exported to Colombia:
Aircraft 48008/48009, LLC. The
FAA records for the aircraft list their address as
200 CRESCENT CT STE 650, DALLAS, TX. What other companies are listed at that address?
You guessed it.
AirCorp.
The Wikert Group.
JRW Aviation.
Alaska Flight Services.
Pack/Wikert, LLC.
Partidas Air, LLC.
Pilatus Partners, LLC. And
Aircraft 25249,
LLC.
To summarize, since I fear I may have been long winded in my explanation, the same James R. Wikert that owned N120NE for several years in the 1980s
also owned a subsidiary of the UniCapital Corporation, which owned N900SA for some time, as well as purchasing several of their other DC-9s and
exporting them to Colombia.