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Sierra Leone: 'Cocaine Plane' Owner Identified
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Concord Times (Freetown)
17 July 2008
Posted to the web 17 July 2008
Olusegun Ogundeji and Fidelis Adele
A rescue company which keeps a tally of air or sea accidents, or information related to these fields and civil defence issues in Venezuela, has revealed the rightful owner of the abandoned 'cocaine plane' in Sierra Leone.
Organization Rescate Humboldt (ORH) of Avenida Francisco de Miranda, Museum of Transport "Guillermo Shael" Aviation Hangar, Urb. Santa Cecilia in Caracas informed Concord Times yesterday via email that though it is unaware of another owner for the airplane as at today, but according to registry, the documented owner is Corporacion Aerostar 521 C.A. of Avenue Los Laboratoios, Edif. Quorum, Piso 1, Los Ruices, Caracas.
The rescue company also provided the telephone number of the owner.
According to ORH's unnamed operator of guard, the abandoned plane with (one of its) registration number as YV1647, is a Cessna 441 model aircraft manufactured in 1978 with Tax RIF: J-31200146-1 and has El Caracas SVCS as its airport base.
Findings revealed that Cessna 441 was the first turboprop designed by Cessna and was meant to fill the gap between their jets and piston-engined aircraft. It was developed in November 1974, with the first aircraft delivered in September 1977.
Its maker, Cessna Aircraft Company, is a manufacturer of general aviation aircraft specializing in small, piston-powered aircraft and medium-sized business jets and headquartered in Wichita, Kansas, USA.
Two pictures of the plane's interior "before their illegal use" were also attached to the email.
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In all, two mails were exchanged between Concord Times and ORH before the plane's data were provided. In one of ORH's mail, the company said when it observed the news of the capture of an airplane with drugs at the airport in Sierra Leone, they were bothered.
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