Reply #13: Keep registrations?

[DulceDecorum]

I dunno,
maybe I'll try keeping the registration of the rustheap car valid
- after I win the lottery and find some vehicle inspector who fancies my bod.

DeadBroke,
if it is not too personal a question,
exactly WHAT was your dearly departed brother transporting on those planes
and did he ever land in Mena, Arkansas?

DeadBroke says:
A "valid" registration has no significance whatsoever, it means nothing.

So much for the Article 12 and Article 29 of the
CHICAGO CONVENTION ON INTERNATIONAL CIVIL AVIATION
(1994) 15 U.N.T.S. 295
http://www.dal.ca/~wwwlaw/kindred.intllaw/ChicagoCIA.htm
Since THAT is not in effect, who needs the FAA?

Well well.
Who knew?
Dodson Aviation certainly didn't.

In 1998, ECOMOG identified a plane, registration number N71RD, owned by a South African company, Dodson Aviation Maintenance and Spare Parts, as having carried weapons to Robertsfield in September of that year. The plane is a Gulfstream 14-seater business jet that cannot be used for arms transport, but there are other relevant connections. Fred Rindel was the owner of Dodson. The company was closed on 31 December 1998, but during the period under investigation, the plane was leased to, and operated by, Greater Holdings (Liberia) Ltd., a company with gold and diamond concessions in Liberia. The plane was used for the transport of the Greater Holdings' staff to and from Liberia.

But Dodson Aviation Maintenance and Spare Parts is still in the business of purchasing scrap airplanes,
and then registering them with the FAA in accordance with international law concerning civil aircraft.

N4610 listed as 'S' = scrapped.
83-4610/4617 Boeing C-22B Ex-commercial 727-100 operated by ANG 4610 (c/n 18811) was formerly B-727-035 N4610 of National Airlines. National merged with Pan American and aircraft named 'Clipper Pathfinder'. Purchased by USAF Aug 21, 1984. Sold Jan 11, 2002 to Dodson International Parts, inc and then to Dodson Aviation Jan 14, 2002. Registered to Dodson Aviation as N4610. Seized by Zimbabwean authorities for carrying suspected mercenaries and military equipment. Dodson supposedly had sold the plane to a South African company, Logo Ltd.
http://www.nationnews.com/StoryView.cfm?Record=48033
http://www.military.com/NewsContent/0,13319,FL_africa_022504,00.html
http://www.kathryncramer.com/wblog/archives/000459.html

Now, if Dodson had simply omitted to register that plane,
they wouldn't have to be throwing rocks at the FAA right about now.