Originally Posted by
red9
With you on this - still cant see how you set yourself up with an N reg jet on an AOC in the UK AND advertise your business as aircraft charter ????
Channel Jets got their Guernsey AOC last summer (the sixth AOC issued by the Guernsey authorities) so they can legitimately charter out a 2-REG registered Eclipse 500. However, it is doubtful that they could charter out a borrowed/substitute N-registered Eclipse off the back of their Guernsey AOC. If it transpires that they can just substitute any old FAA or EASA-registered aircraft onto the AOC, then that is very enlightening. In a post-Brexit world, I can see every UK AOC-holder in the country swapping over to the Guernsey register so they have this extraordinary flexibility - assuming they get over the Part-TCO approval issues allowing them to be able to fly in any UK/EU jurisdiction thereafter.
However, unless someone can confirm the Guernsey rules on this, I seriously doubt that N-Reg Eclipse coud have been legitimately chartered to Sala (or his agent), even if the 'Operator' for that trip has a valid AOC, which it appears they do. Are Mark Farmer and Jason Bannister (supposed owners of N531EA) therefore leasing their Eclipse to Channel Jets, or was this a one-off rental?