I've posted on this before, but now that I have several new FAA documents (click the links to view them), I'll add a more detailed argument,
recapping a bit in case people have forgotten.
In 2005,
N900SA was
sold to Sky Way
Aircraft/Royal Sons by HW Aviation, a Chicago corporation comprised of Geoffrey Hodgson and Jeffrey Wolfson.
Geoffrey Hodgson, along with Anthony Aiello, are the Secretary and President, respectively, of
Scott Aviation, a company which leased
N120NE from Genesis Aviation before the aircraft was sold to Sky Way Aircraft/Royal Sons in 2004.
Hodgson and Aiello owned (at the least) two aircraft of note: (1)
N48PA, a Gulfstream I which was exported to Venezuela and captured with 4
tons of drugs on board two months later; and (2)
N244DM, a Gulfstream II
Hodgson and Aiello purchased in 2004.
In 2006, Aiello became the sole owner,
and two months later,
sold the aircraft to the
second Sky Way Aircraft in St. Petersburg, Florida. (The Sky Way Aircraft which owned N900SA, a subsidiary of SkyWay Communications
Holding Corporation, was based in Clearwater, Florida, about 10 miles away, and had an entirely different set of owners.)
The St. Petersburg Sky Way Aircraft owned N391SA, the Beech Super King Air that was exported to Venezuela in October 2004 and found abandoned in
Nicaragua the next month, with false tail number N168D and signs of having smuggled drugs.
Geoffrey Hodgson, therefore, is a link between the two, otherwise seemingly unrelated except by name, Sky Way Aircraft corporations, both of which
have exported aircraft to Venezuela that have been caught smuggling drugs within a month of their sale. Hodgson, also, is connected directly to at
least two drug smuggling aircraft.
