Originally posted by HongPong
I asked him (back in January) about another CIA-linked coke plane, which Hopsicker dubs "cocaine one," and what the deal was.
This plane did not have a current owner. Its FAA registration was suspended. So i asked the Govt Dude if there is some kind of archaic loopholes to
the FAA's registration system.
He told me that indeed, basically the FAA was set up from the get-go to let the elite hide aircraft ownership thru loopholes. By flipping crafts back
and forth between shell companies, if one gets caught during its drug flight, responsibility vanishes. And this has happened numerous times during the
Bush regime. (then he told me about personally searching for a missing iran contra pilot 20 yrs ago, FAA burned the flight records! This was the first
govt employee I ever asked about this stuff!!!)
I'll agree that the system—intentionally or otherwise—does make it quite easy to confuse who exactly owns an aircraft at a specific time,
however, I do have a correction regarding N900SA (Cocaine One, as Hopsicker refers to it—a name I personally dislike, but that's neither here nor
there).
N900SA certainly did have a current owner at the time of its capture, we just don't know who it was,
because it was exported to Venezuela. Once an aircraft is
exported, the FAA no longer cares who owns it. However one odd point regarding N900SA—in my experience of looking at FAA records, there generally
is a bill of sale to the foreign purchaser included in the file. Not so in this case, only the above cancellation letter was sent.
It's also possible, as has been suggested by Hopsicker and others, that the above letter was backdated,
as it was faxed to the FAA by the final U.S. owner on April
11, a day after the aircraft was caught by the Mexican government, despite the letter being dated April 7.
[edit on 16-12-2007 by LoganCale]