Originally Posted by
lederhosen
Reports that they have been deregistered too. I presume they will shortly be sporting Russian registrations with airworthiness certificates and insurance arranged in record time. The legal ramifications are going to be interesting.
You can’t deregister an aircraft without prior consent from the owner. You can however revoke a CofA at anytime.
And reasons being that the aircraft are registered in Bermuda for tax reasons are not true - can you imagine working with the Russian authority to remove an aircraft in the current circumstances. But of course the “journalist” who broke this story would know that…